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0900 Mark Westoby (Macquarie U):
Introduction
0910 Dr Brian Walker (Resilience Alliance):
Human-ecological systems and managing for resilience
0945 Focus groups 1: What do you think is the best way to
choose a PhD topic? From fondness for a particular organism or habitat? To work
with a particular lab or supervisor? For the intellectual ideas involved? For
the application to management? For particular career skills? As a first step in
discussion, survey your focus group about their own projects and what was
important to them in choosing them. For reporting back, summarize this
information and also describe 2-3 of the most interesting arguments that came
up.
1035 Tea break and discussion
1105 Focus groups reporting back.
1120 Dr Tara Martin (CSIRO and U
Queensland): A recent advance in conservation ecology
1140 Dr Susanna Venn (NSW Dept of Climate
Change and Environment): A recent advance in alpine ecology
1200 Prof Andrew Cockburn (ANU): A recent advance in evolution
1220 Alan Kwok
(UNSW) on Shachak et al (2008) “Woody species as landscape modulators and their
effect on biodiversity patterns” Bioscience 58: 209-221
1232 Louis Elliott
(NT Dept of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport) on Lonsdale
(1994) “Inviting trouble: Introduced pasture species in northern Australia”
Aust J Ecol 19:345-354
1245 Lunch (as a group, provided)
1345 Dr Emma Johnston (UNSW): Temporal
change in the diversity-invasibility relationship
1405 Dr Heloise Gibb (La Trobe U): A recent
advance in insect ecology
1425 Dr David Keith (NSW Dept Climate Change and Environment): A
recent advance in vegetation ecology.
1445 Focus groups 2: Suppose you were setting up an ecology
or evolution research project to last a lifetime (say, one week every year).
What would it be like? What question would you tackle that would still be
interesting 50 years later? What sites or organisms would you choose, and why?
1525 Tea break and discussion
1550 Focus groups to report back
1610 Dr Charlie Zammit (Commonwealth Department of
Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts): Economics and politics meeting
ecology: markets for biodiversity conservation
1640 Panel discussion (all speakers)