Raimo Heikkilä & Tapio Lindholm
Monday 24.7. 2006
Chair A. Moen
Keynote 13.00-13.20
Hans Joosten (Greifswald University, Germany): Mire classification in the European Mires Book: an attempt to integration
Presentations:
13.20-13.35 Tatyana Yurkovskaya (Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences): Mires on the map of Russia
13.35-13.50 Leslaw Wolejko (Agricultural University in Szczecin, Poland): Joining the Europaean Union - a new perspective for Polish peatlands
13.50-14.05 Li Lin (Heilongjiang Forest Academy, China): Wetland conservation in China
14.05-14.20 Jaapie Buckle & Rehana Dada (South Africa): South African peatlands - status, conservation, key challenges and rehabilitation
14.20-14.35 Ema Gojdicova (State Nature Conservancy, Slovakia): Peatlands in Slovakia, present status and conservation.
15.00-15.15 Karen Jenderedjian (Ministry of Nature Protection, Armenia): Mires in National Protected Area Network of Armenia.
15.15-15.30 Oleg Kuznetsov (Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences): Diversity of mire flora and vegetation and its conservation in the Republic of Karelia, Russia
15.30-15.45 Tatiana Minayeva & Andrei Sirin (Federal Centre of Geoecological Systems, Russia): The highland mires and peatlands in Asia: the attempt to highlight the problem
15.45-16.00 Norman Donner (University of Greifswald, Germany): Nature and degradation of polygon mires in NE Yakutia, Russia.
16.00-16.15 Jennie Whinam & Geoff Hope (Tasmanian Biodiversity Conservation Branch & Australian National University, Australia): Peatlands of the Australasian Region.
Chair Eero Kaakinen
Keynote 16.30-16.50
Eero Kaakinen & Aira Kokko (North Ostrobothnia Regional Environment Centre): Assessment of threatened mire habitats in Finland
Presentations:
16.50-17.05 Emma Ingelsson Alkbring (Umeå, Sweden): The Beginning of Agriculture in Swedish Lapland.
17.05-17.20 Francis Muller, Thierry Laporte & Pascal Arlot (Pôle relais tourbières, France): Problems and experiments of grazing on peatlands of the Western French Pyrenees
17.20-17.35 Bettina Holsten & Michael Trepel (Kiel University, Germany): Modelling vegetation development on minerotrophic peat soils for land use planning.
17.35-17.50 Andreas Grünig (Agroscope FAL Reckenholz, Switzerland): Vegetation changes in the mires of the Zürich airport area.
17.50-18.05
Guillaume Theroux Rancourt, Mireille Bellemare, Jin Zhou, Line Lapointe
&
Line Rochefort
(Universite Laval, Canada): Recent development in cloudberry
cultivation in eastern
Canada.
Chair Leslaw Woljeko
Keynote 8.30-8.50
Arlette Laplace-Dolonde & Jenny Schulz (Lyon University, France): Mire development in the flood plain of the upper Rhône river
Presentations:
8.50-9.05 Ab Grootjans, Leslaw Wolejko & Miki Madaras (University of Groningen, The Netherlands): Travertine deposition in calcareous fens in Slovakia and Poland
9.05-9.20 Riitta Korhonen and Matti Kokkonen (Finnish Geological Survey): Animated developing history of Petkelsuo Mire in Southern Finland.
9.20-9.35 Simon Thibault & Serge Payette (Université Laval, Canada): Recent dynamics of permafrost bogs at their northern limit of distribution
9.50-10.05 Bjorn Robroek, Juul Limpens & Matthijs Schouten (Wageningen University, The Netherlands): Competition between Sphagnum species: water table driven or not?
10.45-11.00 Pierre Goubet (Herbiers Universitaires de Clermont-Ferrand - Université Blaise-Pascal, France): Advances in the understanding of bog functioning in Central France: the instance of the Montagne-Bourbonnaise.
11.00-11.15 Juichi Omote (Kinki University, Japan): Hydrogeochemical investigation of peatlands and related vegetation complexes
11.15-11.30 Rémy Pouliot, Line Rochefort, Gilles Gauthier & Chantal Pineau (Université Laval, Canada): Moss layer constrains the fertilizing effects of Greater snow geese in polygon fens in the Canadian Arctic
11.30-11.45 Anatoli Maksimov (Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences): Sphagnum mosses of Russia and their protection
11.45-12.00 Stanislav Kutenkov (Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences): Vegetation of forested mires in middle-taiga subzone of Karelia
12.00-12.15 Isolda Matchutadze (Georgia): Adventive flora of Kolkheti mires, Georgia.
12.15-12.30 Agu Leivits (State
Nature Conservation Centre, Estonia): Mire
bird inventories and their
conservation uses in Estonia.
Chair Harri Vasander
Keynote 13.30-13.50
Gert Michael Steiner (University of Vienna, Austria): Six years of hydrological monitoring in restored mires.
Presentations:
13.50-14.05 Mara Pakalne (Latvian Fund for Nature, Latvia): Raised bog studies, monitoring and management in LIFE project “Mires” in Latvia
14.05-14.20 Raimo Pajula (Tallinn University, Estonia): Revegetation of abandoned peat cutting areas in Estonia
14.20-14.35 Hans Esselink (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands): Effects of restoration management on landscape heterogeneity and fauna: A step in the right direction, or further into the swamp?
14.35-14.50 Natacha Fontaine, Monique Poulin & Line Rochefort (Universite Laval, Canada): Vegetation diversity and restoration of mire pools
15.20-15.35 Kalle Mälson (Uppsala University, Sweden): Floristic responses of drainage and restoration of rich fens
15.35-15.50 Gert-Jan Van Duinen (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands): Does rewetting of raised bogs rehabilitate aquatic invertebrate diversity? A comparative study between pristine, degraded, and rewetted raised bogs in Estonia and the Netherlands.
15.50-16.10 Sake Van Der Schaaf (Wageningen University, The Netherlands): Subsiding bogs: self-sealing process, moving catchment boundaries, changing flow paths and slopes and effects on drying and natural rewetting.
16.10 -16.25 Faizal Parish (Global Environment Centre, Malaysia) Assessment of peatlands, biodiversity and climate change.
During the excursion:
Lebrecht Jeschke& Richard Lindsay (Greifswald, Germany; London, UK): From Oulanka to Tammela: IMCG Excursions from 1992 till 2006 (During the excursion in Oulu)
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