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SUNDAY,
July 4, 2010 Salon
12 Salon
11 Salon
10 Salon
9 Salon
2 Salon
3 Salon
4 Salon
8 8:00am
- 10:00am SY
42: Sustainable use in wildlife conservation
(E. Merrill)1-Contributed
Papers: Invasive Species (mod. F. Courchamp)SY
63: Bridging the science-policy gap: critical habitat under ESA and
SARA (F. Schmiegelow)SY
32: Developing adaptability: the promise and pitfalls of collaborative
conservation
(B. Lauber)2-Contributed
Papers: Amphibian Declines (mod. Cindy Paszkowski)3-Contributed
Papers: Ecosystem Services (mod. E. Mapfumo)SY
15: Paying for conservation in a changing world
(J. Igoe)Speed
Presentations: Landscape Ecology (mod. F. Huettman)Break 10:30am
- 12:30pm SY
42: Sustainable use in wildlife conservation
(E. Merrill)SY
12: Using conservation science to influence public policy: lessons from
North America
(D. DellaSalla)SY
63: Bridging the science-policy gap: critical habitat under ESA and
SARA (F. Schmiegelow)SY
36: Tracking progress towards the 2010 Biodiversity Target and Beyond
(V. Kapos)SY
61: Protected areas and climate change: mitigation and adaption in Canada's
protected areas. (M. Pellatt)SY
41: Artificial lights and nature: challenges for dusk-to-dawn conservation
management
(T. Longcore)SY
15: Paying for conservation in a changing world
(J. Igoe)Speed
Presentations: Species Trends & Status (mod. J. Jacobs)Lunch:
12:30pm - 2:00pm WS 75: Alberta land-use framework
(M. Seiferling) WS 39: Integrating Religion in Conservation Biology(K.
Sheikh) WS 82: How do we define recovery for species
at risk? (S. Pinkus) Science-Publications Committee meeting WS 22: Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange
(L. Hansen) WS 34: Training Conservation Leaders (R.
Dalzen) Social Science Working Group meeting WS 8: Participating in a conference
(M. Hunter) 2:00pm
- 4:00pm SY
31: Caribou conservation: international perspectives on management and
policy (L. Vors)SY
12: Using conservation science to influence public policy: lessons from
North America
(D. DellaSalla)SY
53: Effective critical habitat policy (K. Prior)4-Contributed
Papers: Avian Conservation (mod. Erin Bayne)5-Contributed
Papers: Community-based Conservation (mod. M. Rudd)SY
41: Artificial lights and nature: challenges for dusk-to-dawn conservation
management
(T. Longcore)SY
45: The extinction crisis: synthesis and new directions for predicting
risk across vertebrates
(A. Davidson) Speed
Presentations: Aquatic Systems (mod. O. Johnson)Break 4:30pm
- 5:30pm Plenary
speaker: Shane Mahoney Fiddling
While Rome Burns: Conservation's Divisions Thwart Conservation Success The conservation
movement enters the 21st century facing a staggering array of formidable
challenges. Whether viewed from local, national or international perspectives
the expanding fronts of human population growth, habitat loss and degradation,
climate change and biodiversity depletion are now positioned to overwhelm
the movement's achievements and its historic infrastructures. There
can be no doubt that a new and more effective conservation framework
has to be developed if the natural world and its life support systems
are to be recovered, stabilized and maintained. From shattered oceanic
systems to the escalating loss of pollinators, and on to the depletion
of large carnivores and are closest primate relatives, the scale of
environmental impact and species assemblage destabilization represent
problems of a scale we are ill prepared to address. Their increasing
severity is also some measure of our own movement's progress.
While focusing on these specific problems is rightly a preoccupation
of our movement, it is clear that piecemeal solutions are no cure for
the malaise in our midst. A new global strategy is required that aligns
and synergizes the existing strengths of the conservation community,
a seemingly self evident truth; a goal that surely must lie within our
grasp. However, history
wages a different bet, for the conservation movement has since its earliest
days been fractured, and most fundamentally along the lines of whether
humanity will utilize wildlife or strive to
preserve it within systems devoid of human take. Along this fault line
runs a spectrum of energies that flow outwards towards highly polarized
positions, each of which struggles for
position, capacity and effect. From those who hunt wildlife to those
committed to animal rights, there seems little doubt that many roads
can lead to a conservation commitment. The
question is: which road will lead to conservation success?
Like the founders of the conservation movement in the late nineteenth
century, we must bring unity of purpose to the forefront of our scramble
for effect, not promulgation of ideological
position. John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt represented positions that
were in some ways far apart, but this did not stop their cooperative
efforts in the heady days of conservation's birth.
Each longed for and fought to sustain the natural world. The gradual
conceptual drift that has led us to our philosophical chasm today, the
so called preservationist-utilitarian dichotomy,
must be replaced by the one process that has, throughout human history,
led to progress. That process is dialogue and attendance to the greater
good. Together conservationists of all
persuasions can render greater service to the natural world and the
human component of it. To do so does not require abandonment of principles,
but a more profound commitment to
the principal matter at hand. There is, in fact, great strength in our
differences. Thus we need not fiddle while Rome burns; nor blame the
ideological others when it does. 5:30pm
- 6:00pm Announcements 6:00-7:30 Poster Session - Location: Hall A7:30pm Canadian Subsection
Launch
MONDAY,
July 5, 2010 Salon
12 Salon
11 Salon
4 Salon
3 Salon
10 Salon
2 Salon
9 Salon
8 8:00am
- 10:00am SY
28: Conserving large mammal predator-prey systems in a changing world
(N. Webb)SY
72: What's the big idea? - a conversation on North American continental
conservation
(G. Tabor)SY
7: Economic growth and biodiversity conservation: from theory to the
policy arena (B. Czech)6-Contributed
Papers: Grasslands and Savannas (mod. C. Gates)SY
68: Boreal forest of opportunity: where science, policy, and indigenous
rights intersect (D. Roberts)SY
76: Arthropod conservation in managed landscapes (J. Spence)7-Contributed
Papers: Species at Risk (mod. R. Quinlan)Speed
Presentations: Climate Change (mod. A. Thornhill)Break 10:30am
- 12:30pm SY
28: Conserving large mammal predator-prey systems in a changing world
(N. Webb)SY
72: What's the big idea? - a conversation on North American continental
conservation
(G. Tabor)SY
10: Adding it up: a practical review of payments for environmental services
(PES) projects (N. Gross-Camp)SY
65: Freshwater and marine conservation
(H. Patricio)8-Contributed
Papers: Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge (mod. L. Innes)SY
76: Arthropod conservation in managed landscapes (J. Spence)Student
Awards Finalists Presentations (Session 1; mod. D. Patrick)Speed
Presentations: Biodiversity (mod. J. Ray)Lunch:
12:30pm - 2:00pm WS 11: What do conservation managers read?
(A. Pullin) Environmental Bill of Rights for Canadians (L.
Duncan) WS 80: Addressing biodiversity and ecological
integrity through strategic land-use simulation modeling (B. Stelfox) Chapters Business Meeting Africa Section Meeting Asia Section Meeting Austral & Neotropical America Section meeting Europe Section meeting 2:00pm
- 4:00pm 9-Contributed
papers: Large Carnivores (mod. J. Packard)SY
35: Large-scale wildlife conservation in western North America: ecological
restoration of bison (K. Redford)10-Contributed
Papers: Plant Conservation (mod. Ellen Macdonald)24-Contributed
Papers: Conservation for a Changing Planet (mod. Stan Boutin)SY
4: Top priorities of Canadian and American policymakers for conservation
science (E. Fleishman)11-Contributed
Papers: Disease and Parasites (mod. Margo Pybus)Student
Awards Finalists Presentations (Session 2; mod. D. Patrick)Speed
Presentations: Birds (mod. S. Song)Break 4:30pm
- 5:30pm Plenary
speaker: Dr. Tyrone Hayes From
Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men The herbicide,
atrazine, is a potent endocrine disruptor. My laboratory's studies
in amphibians have shown that atrazine both demasculinizes and feminizes
exposed males at levels as low as 0.1 ppb. Our previous worked examined
morphological effects, including the loss of androgen-dependent sexually
dimorphic features, and the development of estrogen-dependent features
in exposed males. These findings are consistent with an induction of
aromatase, resulting in decreased androgen secretion and inappropriate
estrogen synthesis and secretion. Our ongoing studies focus on behavioral
effects in male frogs exposed throughout life and demonstrate both the
loss of male reproductive behavior and the induction of female-typical
behavior in exposed males. These data on amphibians and the proposed
mechanism are consistent with findings across vertebrate classes, including
humans, and raise concern about the role of this common environmental
contaminant in reproductive hormone-dependent cancers in and declining
fertility in humans.
5:30pm
- 6:00pm Announcements 6:00pm
- 6:30pm 6:30pm
- 8:00pm Student
Networking Reception (University of Alberta) 8:00pm
- 10:00pm Premiere
of National Geographic's "Great Migrations" (University of
Alberta)
TUESDAY,
July 6, 2010 Salon
11 Salon
12 Salon
10 Salon
9 Salon
2 Salon
3 Salon
4 Salon
8 8:00am
- 10:00am SY
33: Salmonids running amok (O. Johnson)SY
71: Conserving grizzly bear populations at risk in North America (J.
Pissot)SY
73: Conserving Canada's ecosystems: threats and prospects (A.Moores)SY
13: Priorities for the conservation of the world's mammalian fauna (C.
Rondinini)SY
19: Sustainable conservation: investing in nature or investing in people?
(R. Goldman)12-Contributed
Papers: Population Modelling (mod. Mark Burgman)SY
77: Nature conservation in human dominated landscapes (Martin Dieterich)Speed
Presentations: Invasive Species (mod. R. Primack)Break 10:30am
- 12:30pm SY
52: Climate change adaptation in North America: marine & coastal
environments (R. Gregg)SY
71: Conserving grizzly bear populations at risk in North America (M.
Proctor)SY
73: Conserving Canada's ecosystems: threats and prospects (A. Moores)SY
13: Strategic priorities for the conservation of the world's mammalian
fauna (C. Rondinini)13-Contributed
Papers: Harvesting (mod. Corey Bradshaw)SY
24: Incorporating and modelling patch dynamics in conservation planning
(N. Ban)14-Contributed
papers: Human-dominated landscapes (mod. M. Dieterich)Speed
Presentations: Community-based Conservation (mod. Michelle Bacon)Lunch:
12:30pm - 2:00pm Teaching Adaptive Management Meeting WS
5: The publication process for SCB's journals (Fleishman) WS 50: IPBES--Ensuring That Multilateral
Environmental Agreements Have High Quality (J. Fitzgerald) Joint North America Section-Canada Subsection
Meeting Marine Section Meeting Oceania Section Meeting Ecological Economics and Sustainability Working
Group Meeting TBA 2:00pm
- 4:00pm Members
Meeting Break 4:30pm
- 5:30pm LaRoe
Awardees & Smith Fellows Tackling
the Future's Most Pressing Conservation Challenges in a Changing World
Global ecological and social change is unprecedented in its magnitude and rate. Are we currently poised to handle these challenges? The quickening pace of global change is forcing conservation biologists to look ahead, think strategically and prioritize their conservation research and actions within the context of an uncertain future. In this plenary session, LaRoe Award Recipients and David H. Smith Fellows will discuss their views on the major conservation challenges likely to face conservation science in the next century. Panelists will debate how our thinking, institutions, research and avenues for implementation need to change in order to tackle the growing list of conservation goals confronting society. Panelists will pinpoint the skills conservation biologists need to be effective leaders and ways of sharpen these skills. The goal of this plenary is to offer forward-thinking approaches to effect conservation change on the ground and highlight research priorities in light of our changing word. We hope the audience will join this dialogue and will leave with some new insights on how to best propel conservation research forward to tackle the foremost issues of the future and increase the impact of every conservation scientist and practitioner.
5:30pm
- 6:00pm Announcements 6:00pm-7:30pm Poster Session - Location: Hall A7:30pm Conservation
Science-Policy Round Table Meeting (7-8pm)
WEDNESDAY,
July 7, 2010 Salon
12 Salon
11 Salon
10 Salon
2 Salon
3 Salon
9 Salon
4 Salon
8 8:00am
- 10:00am 15-Contributed
papers: Climate change & conservation (mod. D. Armstrong)SY
14: Biodiversity monitoring: what Is required for success? (J. Schieck)SY
9: Coupling land-use and conservation planning to create sustainable
communities and protect biodiversity (A. Merenlender)16-Contributed
Papers: Trophic-level Dynamics (mod. M. Musciani)SY
25: Novel approaches to understanding illegal behaviour in conservation
(A. Keane)SY
26: Effective conservation in a changing planet (M. Somers)17-Contributed
Papers: Conservation Genetics (mod. David Coltman)Speed
Presentations: Mammals (mod. W. Lidicker)Break 10:30am
- 12:30pm SY
60: The three C's - conservation & carbon in the context of global
change (J. Gamon)SY
14: Biodiversity monitoring: what Is required for success? (J. Schieck)18-Contributed
papers: Policy topics & CBD (mod. S. Woodley)19-Contributed
Papers: Marine Conservation (mod. Peter Aku)SY
23: Conservation planning for off reserve actions: expanding the conservation
planning toolbox (V. Adams)SY
26: Effective conservation in a changing planet (M. Somers)20-Contributed
Papers: Spatial Ecology (mod. H. Locke)Speed
Presentations: Conservation Genetics (mod. C. Strobeck)Lunch:
12:30pm - 2:00pm WS 78: An Introduction to Alberta oil sands (J.
Doucet) Voices of Nature
(H. Arntzen) WS 44: Convention on Biological Diversity (J.
Fitzgerald) Freshwater Working Group FWS Listening Session 23-Caribou (mod. H. U. Wittmer)Science and Religion and Conservation Biology
Working Groups Meeting TBA Editorial Board meeting (conference room) 2:00pm
- 4:00pm SY
79: Challenges and emerging solutions to development of Alberta's
oil sands (B. Purdy)21-Contributed
Papers: Northern Ecosystems (mod. D. Hik)SY
43: Supporting conservation through the convention on biological diversity
(J. Fitzgerald)SY
67: Conservation design for human beings: agency, identity, and successful
institutions (G. Myers)22-Contributed
Papers: Economics (mod. V. Adamowicz)SY
57: Using nature to protect people from climate change impacts (J. Molnar)SY
51: Ecological Connectivity
(M. Cross/C. Chester)Speed
Presentations:
Large Carnivores (mod. J. Northrup)Break 4:30pm
- 5:30pm Plenary
speaker: Dr. David Schindler Comprehensive
Conservation Planning to Protect Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
in Canadian Boreal Regions under a Changing Climate and Increasing Exploitation Boreal regions
contain more than half of the carbon in forested regions of the world
and over 60 % of the world's surface freshwater. Carbon storage and
the flood control and water filtration provided by freshwaters and wetlands
have recently been identified as the most important ecosystem services
provided by boreal regions, but ecosystem services and sensitive ways
of detecting their impairment have so far not been fully included in
boreal conservation planning. Climate warming, via its effect on permafrost
melting, insect damage, and forest fire, threatens to trigger large
positive carbon feedbacks that may enhance the concentrations of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere. In a water-scarce world, there is increasing
pressure to divert and exploit boreal freshwaters, and devising conservation
plans to protect boreal freshwaters and their catchments is urgent.
I propose a catchment-based approach that includes water and chemical
mass-balances as a sensitive means of detecting early degradation
of many ecosystem services in both catchments and freshwaters, and give
some examples of where this has been advantageous in the past. The necessary
modifications to current conservation planning are simple ones, and
the advantages are great. 5:30pm
- 6:00pm Announcements 6:00pm Fort
Edmonton Park BBQ (end of conference picnic)
