IMCG Symposium Texel

22 August 2018

NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Oral presentations

8.45-9.00: Opening Symposium:

9.00-9.20: Stephan Glatzel: Ecosystem dynamics in the Pürgschachen Bog, Austria

9.20-9.40: Tanya Lippmann: Vegetative and vegetation management play a role on the net greenhouse gas budget of rewetted peatlands

9.40-10.00: Weier Liu: Estimating Greenhousgas emission from vegetation maps after rewetting (Drentsche Aa valley, NL)

10.00-10.20: Samer Elshehawi: Natural isotopes identify groundwater flows in the Drentsche Aa Brook Valley, The Netherlands.

10.20-10.40: Timofey Orlow: Regional peat depth estimation measured with GPR 

10.40-11.00: coffee break

11.00-11.20: Zhao-Jun Bu: Effect of simulated herbivory on the performance of two peat mosses

11.20-11.40: Beverley Clarkson: Resilience of a raised bog remnant impacted by lowered water tables and nutrient inputs

11.40-12.00: Anders Lyngstad: From raised bogs to razed bogs – threatened lowland mires in Norway

12.00-12.20: Ulrich Graf & Angéline Bedolla : Effects of cattle exclosure and partial rewetting on bog vegetation: the case of Schwaendital Bog.

12.20-12.40: Marina Abramchuk: Water regime of Zvaniec mire - implications for nature conservation management

12.40-13.00: Agata Klimkowska/ Wiktor: Microbial communities in the soils in natural and restored fen peatlands – relevance for restoration

13.00-14.00: lunch

Poster presentations

Althea Grundling: Peatlands under pressure:

Mara Pakalne: Peatlands in Latvia

Michael Trepel: Three questions

Angéline Bedolla: The challenge of Gamperfin: Rewetting a mountain slope bog

Tatiana Minayeva: Indication of peatland restoration success: examples and challenges

Oral presentations

14.00-14.20: Piet-Louis Grundling: Building resilience into South Africa's peatlands to couple with climate change: is it an option?

14.20-14.40: Eric Munzhedzi: Progress towards peatland conservation in NW Province, South Africa: setbacks and successes.

14.40-15.00: Jason Le Roux: The wetland inventory of Swaziland: reporting on the first peatland discoveries.

15.00-15.20: Siew Yan Lew: Peatland Management in Southeast Asia

15.20-16.00: tea break

16.00-16.20: Jan Peeters & Andreas Haberl : Paludiculture in the Baltics

16.20-16-40: Tapio Lindholm: The Finnish-Russian Working Group on Nature Conservation; cooperation in mire protection

16.40-17.00: Monica Sofia Maldonado: Peruvian High Andean Peatlands

17.00-17.20: Aaron Pérez-Haase: Pyrenean mires in protected areas: main threats and conservation actions

17.20-17.40: Eulàlia Pladevall-Izard: Response of engineering plant species to experimental conditions in pryenean fens

18.00: Depature