Ecology Department Symposium

Program 

Wednesday 11 February

Sal L undervisningshuset, Almas allé 10

9:30 Registration and fika

10:00 Welcome to the symposium!
A few words from the Head of Department and the organising committee

10:10 What is a good science story for the media?
Jörn Spolander, Science Reporter at Sweden’s largest newspaper, Dagens Nyheter (DN)

Chair: Alistair Auffret

11:00 Short break

11:10 Short talks
Chair: Elena Quintero

• Bird Song Community Responses to Non-Clearcut Harvesting
  Joachim Strengbom

• Asymmetrical insect invasions
  Maartje Klapwijk

• Bringing together landscape ecology and crop yields: does complexity matter?
  Suzie Derminon
  
  
• Schemes that pay for carnivore presence must be prepared to fund the rising costs of coexistenceSchemes that pay for carnivore presence must be prepared to fund the rising costs of coexistence
  Jens Persson
  
  
• Scaling up bat monitoring with open bioacoustic tools: BSG-BATS
  Katarina Meramo
  
  
• Spruce tree regeneration in bark beetle killed forests
  Anika Gossmann
  
  
• Put your finger to the earth and you will most likely be pointing at a seed
  Alistair Auffret

12:20 Lunch (Not included in the symposium. Please choose your favourite restaurant or bring a lunch box.)

13:35 Short talks
Chair: Anna Lundmark

• Brazil & Butterflies: caterpillar transcriptional responses to host plants
  Martina Bovolenta
  
  
• The architecture of plant-animal ecological networks
  Elena Quintero
  
  
• Omnivorous insects reshape multitrophic plant-insect interactions
  Xiaoning Zhang
  
  
• Collaboration for better biodiversity assessments
  Erik Öckinger

• Something’s in the air – using airborne eDNA for forest monitoring
  Anya Kardailsky

• Protection for your safety
  Emilia Semberg

14:30 Outdoor activity - interesting inhabitants in trees of Ultuna Campus

15:30 Fika

16:00 Short talks
Chair: Martina Bovolenta

• Does It Matter Who Your Neighbour Is? What Plant Interactions Reveal
  Velemir Ninkovic

• Investigating Scandinavian wolf dispersal in relation to culling, inbreeding & population density
  Aïssa Morin
  
  
• Modelling Soil Organic Carbon using ¹²C and ¹⁴C signatures
  Claire O'Connor
  
  
• Quiz: How well can you recognize a protected area?
  Hannah Burger
  
  
• A gender perspective: sometimes a matter of life and death
  Matt Low

16:45 Introduction to group work - build a house of science, environmental analyses or administration

Walk to Ecology Centre, Ulls väg 16

17:00 Group work and poster session, Tamm-salen and F-salen
Last year we had an AI competition — this year we’ll do the opposite. The results will be used in the final session of the symposium. Don’t miss the posters from the department’s units — you’ll need to know what the other units do to excel in this task!

18:10 Dinner - we  will share stories that are not often celebrated.

20:00 Party, pub, music

Thursday 12 February

Sal L Undervisningshuset, Almas allé 10 

09:00 Short talks
Chair: Elena Quintero Borrero 

• Complex respons to management of the rosette plant Succisa pratensis
  Anders Glimskär
  
  
• Monitoring agricultural soils
  Rong Lang
  
  
• My experience with systematic reviews
  Malin Tälle
  
  
• The phenoxidase activity in honeybee
  Xinyan Ruan
  
  
• Climate effects on vertebrate population growth rates - a self-scrutination dance with cold feets
  Tomas Pärt

09:40 Fika

10:10 Short talks 

Chair: Martina Bovolenta

• Wild boar litter size - effects of supplementary feeding
  Moa Eriksson Kukkonen

• The Development of the Unit of Conservation Biology
  Thomas Ranius

• From Linnaeus to lethal fungus - tracing Snake Fungal Disease (SDF) across centuries
  Simon Kärvemo

• Survival of Common Cranes in Europe
  Lovisa Nilsson

• UAV’s to estimate wild boar damages in crops?
  Petter Kjellander

10:50 Presentation of units
We’ll use the results from the group activity to present the units.
Includes a competitive element — just for fun!

12:20 - 12:30 Conclusion*

* We will end earlier since our special guest is unable to attend. 

Missed the registration deadline to register?
You’re still welcome to participate. Please contact anna.lundmark@slu.se if you were unable to register in time.