| 7.00
am |
BREAKFAST |
|
Welcome
and Opening Remarks
|
| 8.30
am |
Phil Moors: Introduction & Opening Remarks |
| 8.45
am |
Joy
Murphy Wandin: Welcome to Wurundjeri Country |
| 9.00
am |
Mark
McDonnell and Amy Hahs: Overview of the Workshop |
|
Session
1- Applicability of undertaking comparative work (Moderator:
Denis Saunders)
|
| 9.30
am |
Jari Niemelä: The challenges of undertaking comparative
work |
| 10.00
am |
MORNING
TEA |
| 10.30
am |
Mark
McDonnell* & Amy Hahs: Components of a conceptual framework
for comparing cities |
| 11.00
am |
Steward
Pickett: Current approaches and potential for comparative studies |
| 11.30
am |
Open Discussion |
| 12.30
pm |
LUNCH |
|
Session
2- Searching for general principles and identifying limitations
(Moderator: Nancy McIntyre) |
| 2.00
pm |
Dieter
Hochuli: Terrestrial invertebrates in urban environments: Can
they be used to reveal disruptions to fundamental ecological
processes? |
| 2.30
pm |
Rüdiger
Wittig: What is the object of urban ecology? Determining the
demarcation of the research area |
| 3.00
pm |
Charles
Nilon: Approaches to comparative studies of urban fauna |
| 3.30
pm |
AFTERNOON
TEA |
|
Session
2 (cont'd) - Searching for general principles and identifying
limitations (Moderator: Kirsten Parris) |
| 4.00
pm |
Richard
Pouyat: Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in urban ecosystems |
| 4.30
pm |
Jianguo
(Jingle) Wu: A landscape perspective on the ecology of cities |
| 5.00
pm |
FREE
TIME |
| 6.30
pm |
DINNER |
|
Session
3 - Panel Discussion: General principles and identifying limitations
(Moderator: Sarel Cilliers) |
| 8.00
pm |
Panellists:
Gerhard Eisenbeis, Ulla Mörtberg, Gee Chapman |
| 7.00
am |
BREAKFAST |
|
Session
4 - Integrating science with management and planning (Moderator:
Amy Hahs) |
| 8.15
am |
Amy
Hahs: Opening Remarks |
| 8.30
am |
Jürgen Breuste: Strategies and management to develop urban
nature |
| 9.00
am |
Colin
Meurk: Lessons and opportunities from experience as an ecological
adviser to the Christchurch City Council, New Zealand |
| 9.30
am |
Katarina
Löfvenhaft: Tools to assess human impact on biotope resilience
and biodiversity in urban planning: Examples from Stockholm,
Sweden |
| 10.00
am |
MORNING TEA |
| 10.30
am |
Maria
Ignatieva: Homogeneity of landscape design language in the urban
environment: Searching for ecological identity in Europe, USA
and New Zealand |
| 11.00
am |
Christopher
Dunn: Integrating science with community action to preserve
biodiversity: The Chicago Wilderness Project |
| 11.30
am |
GROUP
PHOTO |
|
Session
5 - Field Trip |
| 7.00
pm |
DINNER |
| 8.00
pm |
Graeme
Davison: Australian sprawl - Why Australian cities are different |
|
Session
6 - Posters |
| 8.30
pm |
POSTERS |
| 7.00am |
BREAKFAST |
|
Session
7 - New research directions and facilitating interactions
(Moderator: Rodney van der Ree) |
| 8.15
am |
Mark
McDonnell: Opening Remarks |
| 8.30
am |
Sarel
Cilliers*, Henk Bouwman, Ernst Drewes, Pieter Theron and Leon
Van Rensburg: Settled areas in North-west Province, South Africa:
Any use for comparative urban ecological research? |
| 9.00
am |
Michael
McCarthy: Using models to compare the ecology of cities |
| 9.30
am |
Robbert
Snep: Applying landscape ecological principles to urban planning |
| 10.00
am |
Charles
Eason: Mainstreaming low impact design development (LIUDD):
A platform for urban diversity research and conservation. |
| 10.30
am |
MORNING
TEA |
|
Session
8 - Panel discussion: New research directions and facilitating
interactions (Moderator: Steward Pickett) |
| 11.00
am |
Panellists:
Jürgen Breuste, Margaret Carreiro, Yosihiro Natuhara |
| 12.00
am |
LUNCH |
|
Session
9 - Summation (Moderator: Glenn Guntenspergen) |
| 2.00
pm |
Kirsten
Parris: Summation 1 |
| 2.30
pm |
Orie
Loucks: Summation 2 |
| 3.00
pm |
Group
Discussion |
| 3.30
pm |
AFTERNOON
TEA |
| 4.00
pm |
FREE
TIME |
| 7.0
pm |
WORKSHOP
DINNER |
