
Programme
Contact
Prof. Dr. Michael Kleyer
Address
Landscape Ecology Group
Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences
University of Oldenburg
Carl von Ossietzky Str. 9-11
D-26129 Oldenburg
Address
D-26111 Oldenburg
Germany
Tel.: +49-(0)441-798-3278
Secretary's office
Tel.: +49-(0)441-798-3910
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Programme
7th meeting on vegetation databases
Plant - Environment - Trait Linkages
Perspectives on Functional Community Ecology Research
Oldenburg, 05 Mar - 07 Mar 2008
Preliminary programme
Wednesday
14:00- 18:30 Workshops
Workshop I: trait databases: LEDA, Biopop, BiolFlor
(M. Kleyer, J. Hanspach)
Workshop II: vegetation data bases: Turboveg, VegetWeb
(F. Jansen, S. Conrad)
(16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break)
20:00 Meeting for Dinner (Restaurant)
Thursday
8:30 Welcome notes (Michael Kleyer, Jörg Ewald)
8:45 E. Garnier: Keynote
Plant trait data bases as tools in ecological research - results and current trends
9:30 M. Bernhardt-Römermann, C. Römermann and W. Schmidt
Species assemblages and vegetation development under different mowing regimes
9:50 A. Gardarin, C. Dürr and N. Colbach
Effects of seed traits on weed seedbank dynamics in response to seed depth and soil structure
10:10 D. Kazanis
Application of a species-area sampling protocol to approach functional group-environment relationships in recently burned mediterranean plant communities
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 J. Ewald
Re-calibrating shade tolerance of tree species from vegetation databanks
11:20 C. Peppler-Lisbach
Using species environmental amplitudes to predict pH from vegetation
11:40 G.W.W. Wamelink, J.Y. Frissel, R.M.A. Wegman, P.A. Slim and H.F. Van Dobben
Prediction of soil abiotics from species composition
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Poster Session
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Meeting of the working group on meta databases of vegetation data (J. Ewald)
17:30 Meeting of the working group on meta databases of habitat models (R. Biedermann, C. Peppler-Lisbach)
20:00 Meeting for Dinner (Restaurant)
Friday
8:30 J. Schaminée: Keynote
The use of large data sets and information systems in vegetation research
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Plant traits variations within and between communities
9:35 C. Römermann, M. Bernhardt-Römermann, P. Poschlod
Plant trait responses to different management regimes in grasslands- an approach combining long-term vegetation data, life-history traits and environmental conditions
9:55 J. Klimešová
CLO-PLA 3: a step forward in understanding clonal growth diversity in Central European flora
10:15 G. Baumann, A. Enders, A. Linstädter
Connecting ecological research to local information tools
Applications for a trait database of Southern Moroccan plant species
10:35 Coffee break
11:05 F. Jansen and J. Dengler
Taxonomic reference list for Germany and its application for analyses
11:25 M. Kleikamp
Vegetation data as a special case of ecological observation modelling
11:45 H. Bruelheide and U. Jandt
The new Biodiversity Exploratory Vegetation Database Initiative
12:05 Report of the working group on meta databases of vegetation data
12:20 Report of the working group on meta databases of habitat models
12:35 Final discussion
13:00 End