Symposia at the 24th IOC

By clicking on the symposium number you will get a page with the corresponding symposium description.

A PDF file with all symposium descriptions is available for download here

Symposium number Title Convenor 1 Convenor 2
1 Avian personalities Claudio Carere Irene M. Pepperberg
2 New insights into the sense of smell in birds: from foraging behaviour to individual recognition Francesco Bonadonna Gabrielle Nevitt
3 Emerging issues in cooperative breeding research Jeff Walters Jan Komdeur
4 Male and female contributions to biparental care Keith Hamer Douglas Mock
5 Flexibility in mating signals and mate choice: ultimate and proximate bases Keith Sockman Elizabeth MacDougall-Shackleton
6 Information and power: how are conflicts at the nest resolved? Rebecca Kilner Hugh Drummond
7 Responses of birds to (over)fishing Bruno Ens Bob Furness
8 Birds as Indicators of the Environment David Noble Michel Louette
9 New tools and concepts in avian conservation genetics Gernot Segelbacher Jacob Höglund
10 The status of the House Sparrow Passer domesticus in the urban environment Jenny De Laet J. Denis Summers-Smith
11 The effectiveness of agri-environment schemes for farmland birds Juliet Vickery David Kleijn
12 Avian conservation in the tropics: a global perspective Kimberly Smith Navjot Sodhi
13 Detecting ecological traps: avian and human perspectives Marc-André Villard Tomas Pärt
14 The effect of climate change on avian population dynamics Marcel E.Visser Marcel M. Lambrechts
15 Birds and their use of varied landscapes: insights for integrated conservation planning Richard Loyn Lucia Severinghaus
16 Demographic mechanisms of population changes at large spatial scales Fernando Spina Stephen Baillie
17 From trend analysis to population alert Mark Rehfisch Ruud Foppen
18 Integrated ecological studies of diseases and parasites in birds André Dhondt Heinz Richner
19 Macroecology Carsten Rahbek Katrin Böhning-Gaese
20 Ecological plasticity in birds: mechanisms and consequences Claudia Mettke-Hofmann Russell Greenberg
21 Bird-microbe interactions: competition, commensalism and co-evolution Edward Burtt Philipp Heeb
22 The process of natal recruitment in long-lived birds Peter H. Becker Stuart Bradley
23 Natural holes: the missing dimension in understanding hole-nester ecology Tomasz Wesolowski Kathy Martin
24 The physiology of life histories: comparing tropical and temperate zone birds Martin Wikelski Jeff Brawn
25 Advances in molecular systematics and phylogeography of neotropical birds Cristina Miyaki John Bates
26 New approaches, new data, and new findings in avian phylogenetics at and above the ordinal level Shannon Hackett Gerald Mayr
27 Molecular systematics and evolution Dorit Liebers-Helbig Allan J. Baker
28 Dispersal and gene flow in populations: linking molecular methods to direct observations Arie J. van Noordwijk Erkki Korpimäki
29 Causes of geographic variation in avian life-histories Wesley Hochachka Francisco Pulido
30 MHC in birds: genomic organization and evolutionary importance Ralph Tiedemann Helena Westerdahl
31 Magnetic orientation and magnetoreception Roswitha Wiltschko Susanne Åkesson
32 Understanding the causes of recent changes in migratory behaviour Timothy Coppack Charles M. Francis
33 Migratory connectivity: biological significance and modern techniques Frank Moore Franz Bairlien
34 Endocrine bases of reproduction: mechanisms and diversity Pierre Deviche Alistair Dawson
35 Neuroendocrine control of behaviour Stefan Leitner Wolfgang Goymann
36 Coping with seasonal challenges: the role and regulation of moult Barbara Helm Les Underhill
37 Vision and its function Graham Martin Luz Marina Rojas
38 Comparative avian immunology, from poultry to passerine Lynn Martin Dennis Hasselquist
39 Evolution of color ornaments Rauno Alatalo Staffan Andersson
40 Behaviour and physiology of under-water foraging in diving birds Patrick Butler Akiko Kato
41 Circadian rhythms and photoperiodism Vinod Kumar Shizufumi Ebihara
42 Bioacoustics: pure and applied aspects Peter McGregor Georg Klump
43 Avian senescence Pat Monaghan Carol Vleck
44 Climate change and avian life histories Christiaan Both  
45 What 'animal models' can tell ornithologists about the genetics of wild populations Erik Postma Anne Charmantier
46 Brains and birdsong Erich Jarvis Constance Scharff
47 How do birds sense the earth's magnetic field? Magnetoreception mechanisms in birds Henrik Mouritsen Thorsten Ritz

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