Schedule
This page displays speakers who registered before the close of earlybird registration. The list will be updated when standard registration closes (October 2008) and the full schedule posted after registration closes (November 2008).
Multiple stressors of coastal systems
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Title
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Gil Rilov
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Biodiversity in the age of change: spatiotemporal community patterns on Oregon’s rocky shore |
Thomas Wernberg
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Global warming is eroding the resilience of kelp beds |
Alexandra Campbell
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Climate change and emerging disease: bleaching and bacterial infection of a macroalga |
Mariana Mayer-Pinto
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Effects of contaminants on benthic assemblages: an ecological perspective |
Akram Tehranifard
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Determination of LC50 of Linear Anionic Detergents and Linear Anionic Detergents on Rutilus frisii kutum |
Gray Williams
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To be advised |
Bayden Russell
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To be advised |
Science informing management
Speaker
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Title
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| Anne Salomon |
Quantifying resilience and species interactions in southern Californian kelp forests: Ecological theory meets conservation in practice |
| Marissa Baskett |
How simple models can inform basic management principles: examples with climate change and reserve design |
| Marti Anderson |
When the plot gets muddy: models for environmental management in estuarine systems |
| Karina Nielsen |
Save the seaweeds: Applying ecological insights to avoid “boom and bust” commercial exploitation of wild populations |
| Miriam Fernández |
Marine Conservation in Chile: a network of management and conservation areas |
| Jean Harris |
To be advised |
Laura Airoldi
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The loss of temperate reef habitats: conservation, management and research needs |
| Mark Browne |
Effect of substratum and slope on the tenacity of limpets on seawalls and rocky shores |
Donald Gunderson
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Research Needs for the Ecosystem-based Assessment and Management of Korean Temperate Reefs |
David Blockley
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Building seawalls to sustain intertidal biodiversity in altered and urbanised estuaries |
| Tim Langlois |
Human impacts on marine biodiversity: Using latitudinal scale data sets to design monitoring programs |
Judith Klein
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Competitive interactions between limpets on seawalls
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Large scale ecology
Speaker
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Title
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| Steve Hawkins |
What sets the limits of species geographic distributions – recent evidence from range changes in response to global environmental change? |
Victoria Cole
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Influences of upwelling on the structure of mussel beds and associated taxa |
Matthew Edwards
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Scale-dependent patterns of species associations in North American giant kelp forests |
Evie Wieters
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What sets the limits of species geographic distributions – recent evidence from range changes in response to global environmental change? |
Justin Lathlean
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Do geographic patterns of settlement and early mortality explain adult abundance of a marine invertebrate approaching its geographic range limit? |
Robin Pelc
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Geographic patterns of genetic structure in marine species with contrasting life histories |
| Nick Shears |
Large-scale variation in sea urchin settlement and the propensity for deforestation in Southern California kelp forests |
A quest for science in ecology
Speaker
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Title
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| Gee Chapman |
New indices for ranking locations for conservation |
Mike Foster
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MPAs to conserve southern California giant kelp forests: fruits of logic? |
| Peter Petraitis |
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted |
David Schiel
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To be advised |
| Peter Fairweather |
How the world would be different if Tony Underwood were a bayesian
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Greg Skilleter
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Climatic change on rocky shores: integrating ecological and physiological information for a better understanding of effects on biota over latitudinal gradients |
Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi
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Manipulation of the spatial autocorrelation of ecological processes to understand pattern formation at multiple scales: an example with algal assemblages on Mediterranean rocky reefs |
Tony Underwood
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Compensatory dynamics, negative correlations and different spatial and temporal scales |
Fundamental ecology
Speaker
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Title
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| Mick Keough |
Post-settlement mortality as a filter for variable settlement of sessile invertebrates |
Ross Coleman
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Refuting the drying-out hypothesis: Aggregation does not alter desiccation status in an intertidal limpet |
| Christopher McQuaid |
Patterns in mussel recruitment may depend not on physical scales per se, but on whether strong environmental variability exists on the scale examined |
| Adriana Vergés |
The role of fish herbivory in structuring the vertical distribution of canopy algae in the Mediterranean |
Denise Weisman
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Examining the effects of settlement and post-settlement mechanisms on the populations of the sea fan, Muricea californica |
| Amy Smoothey |
Tests of generality of associations with habitat: turban snails as a model |
| Jacqui Pocklington |
Hormosira banksii as an autogenic ecosystem engineer on Victorian rocky intertidal shores
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General sessions
Speaker
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Title
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| Steve Schroeter |
Experimental Investigation of physical structure and location on temperate rocky reef community structure and development |
| Jeffrey Shima |
Larval quality is shaped by matrix effects: implications for connectivity in a marine metapopulation |
| Heather Sugden |
Complex interactions between abiotic disturbance and surface refuge and shape determine the settlement of marine propagules |
| Kirsten Benkendorff |
To be advised |
| Amy Palmer |
Understanding effects of mode of development of marine invertebrates on ecology and genetics at several scales |
John Steinbeck
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To be advised |
| Denise Bunting |
Biogenic habitats and their effects on native and exotic assemblages |
Giordana Cocco
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Investigating the breakdown of seagrass-wrack to understand its distribution along urbanized shorelines |
Katherine Dafforn
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Pathway to invasion: from artificial structure to rocky reef. |
| Ezequiel Marzinelli |
Coastal development affects ecological processes of kelp epifauna |
Miguel Matias
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A conceptual framework to study the effects of structure of habitat on diversity of benthic assemblages
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| Kerry Nickols |
The coastal boundary layer: Lowering the speed limit for nearshore dispersers |
| Spencer Wood |
The causes and consequences of many weak and few strong species interactions in intertidal communities |
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