28th Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology
Description: 28th Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology
Main Symposium
Mathematical Ecology for Effective Ecosystem Management
Organizers: Hiroyuki Yokomizo (National Institute for Environmental Studies) and Gaku Takimoto (Toho University)
From spatial ecology to spatial management: roles of bioeconomics and uncertainty
Alan Hastings (University of California, Davis)
Socio-ecological coupled dynamics: optimal investment to awareness-raising activities for biodiversity conservation
Joung Hun Lee (Kyushu University)
Weed control in the real world: Why we can't ignore the neighbours
Shaun Coutts (University of Queensland)
Making most robust decisions in ecological risk management of chemicals under severe uncertainty
Hiroyuki Yokomizo (National Institute for Environmental Studies)
Using decision science thinking to formulate and solve conservation problems
Hugh Possingham (University of Queensland)
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Symposium 1
Evolutionary divergence and ecological collision of lizards and snakes
Organizers: Matthew Brandley (University of Sydney), Gaku Takimoto (Toho University), Takeo Kuriyama (University of Tokyo), Masami Hasegawa (Toho University)
When snakes evolved from lizards: evolutionary history of Squamate reptiles
Matthew C. Brandley (University of Sydney)
Eurasian origin and migration to and adaptive radiation in the New World: coincidental biogeographical and evolutionary histories of Elaphe snakes and Plestiodon lizards.
Frank T. Burbrink (City University of New York), and Matthew C. Brandley (University of Sydney)
Relative role of evolutionary and ecological processes in community structures in Cuban Anoles
Masakado Kawata (Tohoku University)
Current ecological and evolutionary dynamics among lizard and snakes following colonization to the oceanic islands
Masami Hasegawa (Toho University), Takeo Kuriyama (University of Tokyo), Taku Okamoto (National Institute for Environmental Studies), Matthew C. Brandley (University of Sydney), Gaku Takimoto (Toho University)
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Institution: Toho Univerisity
Location: Toho University, Chiba, Japan
Date(s): October 20, 2012 - October 21, 2012
Links:
https://sites.google.com/site/populecol28/
27th Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology (finished)
Description: 27th Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology
Poster Awards Results
Best Poster of the Congress
Daisuke Kyogoku (Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University), Takayoshi Nishida (Department of Ecosystem Studies, School of Environmental Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture)
Interspecific copulation causes an Allee effect in bean weevils
Awards for Excellence
Hatsune Otsuki (Laboratory of Ecological Information, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University), Shuichi Yano (Laboratory of Ecological Information, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)
Exploitative mutualism between predatory mites and ants for spider mites
Shou Sadakiyo (Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University), Michihiro Ishihara (Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University)
Effects of overwintering latitude and host seed size on post-diapause traits
Kunio Takatsu (Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University), Akiko Ikeda (Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University), Osamu Kishida (Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University)
Predator cannibalisms intensify expression of inducible defenses in prey via drastic growth of cannibalistic individuals
5th Population Ecology Young Scientist Award Lecture
Shunsuke Utsumi (Department of General Systems Studies, University of Tokyo)
Institution: Okayama University
Location: Okayama University 50th Anniversary Hall & Agricultural College Building, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
Date(s): October 14, 2011 - October 16, 2011
Links:
http://www.agr.okayama-u.ac.jp/LAPE/PEEC27/PEEC27.html