Symposium number: 15

Title: BIRDS AND THEIR USE OF VARIED LANDSCAPES: INSIGHTS FOR INTEGRATED CONSERVATION PLANNING

Principal organizer: Richard Loyn
Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Arthur Rylah Institute, Department of Sustainability & Environment, PO Box 137 Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia
email: richard.loyn@dse.vic.gov.au

Second organizer: Lucia Severinghaus
Institute of Zoology, Academica Sinica, Institute of Zoology, Academica Sinica, 128 Yen chiu yuan Road, Sec.II, Taipei, 115., Taiwan

First keynote speaker: Andrew Bennett
School of Ecology and Environment, Deakin University, School of Ecology and Environment, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125., Australia
Title of first keynote paper: Landscape planning for conservation: how do birds respond to landscape pattern?

Second keynote speaker: Ralph MacNally
Australian Centre for Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800., Australia
Title of second keynote paper: It won’t happen overnight: Time-lags in rebuilding varied landscapes

Contributed talks

Symposium description: Birds are more mobile than many organisms, and this empowers them to use landscapes in complex ways to meet their needs during each day, season or year. People also use landscapes in complex ways, and need to allow for such complexity in planning present and future land use. Recent studies in various parts of the world have provided new insights into the ways that birds use varied and modified landscapes at different spatial and temporal scales. This symposium provides an overview of these studies, along with selected case studies that illustrate important new directions.
The papers emphasize the roles that research on the landscape ecology of birds can play in informing human planning decisions and on biodiversity conservation more generally, including the strengths and limitations of these approaches. Global conservation demands a broad perspective, and the rapidly developing science of landscape ecology seeks to fulfill that need. Work on birds is making major contributions to its development.

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