Symposium number: 14

Title: THE EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AVIAN POPULATION DYNAMICS

Principal organizer: Marcel E. Visser
Netherlands Institute of Ecology, P.O. Box 40, 6666 ZG Heteren, The Netherlands
email: m.visser@nioo.knaw.nl

Second organizer: Marcel M. Lambrechts
CEFE, UMR 5175, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

First keynote speaker: Bernt-Erik Saether
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Realfagsbygget, N-7491, Trondheim, Norway
Title of first keynote paper: Climatic impacts on avian population dynamics: processes and some general patterns

Second keynote speaker: Vladimir Grosbois
CEFE, UMR 5175, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Title of second keynote paper: Selecting the most relevant climate indices to identify and predict climate impacts on bird populations

Contributed talks

Symposium description: Climate is changing at an unprecedented rate. This has clear ecological consequences, causing shifts in distributional ranges and phenological cycles (dates of egg laying etc.). Although modelling has predicted mass extinctions due to these changes, there have been very few studies up to now that have demonstrated effects on population dynamics from climactic change. In this symposium, we aim to present state of the art overviews on the effect of local and large-scale influences of climate change on different aspects of avian population dynamics. One keynote-speaker, Bert-Erik Saether, has collected a large number of long term studies on individually marked birds to obtain estimates for parameters for extinction models. His work on the Dipper is one of the few examples that links population dynamics and climate change directly. Our other keynote-speaker, Vladimir Grosbois, will analyze a number of long-term data sets to determine specific impacts of climate change on population dynamics. We hope to attract further speakers who will provide exiting examples of how climate change has influenced bird species living at different latitudes (north vs. south), which occupy distinct habitats (marine vs. terrestrial), and have different life-history strategies (long-lived vs. short-lived).

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