NEOSELVAS WORKSHOP 2009 Neotropical secondary forest regeneration: Integrating ecological process across multiple scales Morelia Michoacán, México 28 - 30 October, 2009
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Menu Program List of participants Working Groups Documents and Presentations Workshop Rooms Hotels Map Hotel Reservations Sponsors Versión Español		Working Groups Description and Composition of Working Groups WG1 Species interactions and demography (Mike Willig, leader) This group will focus on examining the spatial and temporal context of species interactions and demography. What are the spatial and temporal scales of these interactions during forest regeneration? How do seed dispersing mammals and birds move around in the landscape, and how do these movements and roosting behavior affect seed dispersal and genetic composition? How do these spatial patterns vary across time during forest regeneration? Participants: Braulio Almeida Santos Ek Del Val Javier Laborde Kathryn Stoner Lindsay Weiland Marielos Peña Claros Mauricio Quesada Richard Stevens Robert Muscarella Stefan Schnitzer Zak Zahawi Víctor Arroyo WG2 Functional traits and ecological processes in secondary forests (Horacio Paz, leader) This group will focus on how functional traits of leaves, wood, and seeds are linked to species demography (growth, recruitment, and survival) during forest regeneration and restoration, and to ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling, water use, and carbon storage. Participants: Amy Zanne (videoconference) Bryan Finegan Cristina Martinez Garza Frans Bongers Ilyas Siddique Jennifer Powers José Antonio Sierra Huelsz Lourens Poorter (videoconference) Mayra Gavito Miguel Martínez Ramos Radika Bhaskar Rebecca Ostertag Saara DeWalt Tana Wood Vanessa Boukili WG3 Species composition within stands and landscapes (Robin Chazdon and Maria Uriarte, leaders) This working group will examine the role of landscape configuration and composition on species richness and composition of plants and animals at a range of spatial scales, including comparisons among different landscape types. This group will also incorporate effects of natural disturbances within and across landscapes. Participants: Daisy Dent Daniel Piotto Eduardo Pérez Garcia Guillermo Ibarra Manriquez Jess Zimmerman Jorge Meave del Castillo Karen Holl Liza S Comita Lorena Morales Pérez Michiel vanBreugel Natalia Norden Susan Letcher WG4 Human activities and forest regeneration and restoration (Eileen Helmer, leader) This working group will examine broad-scale effects of different forms of human activities on forest regeneration and restoration and at a wide range of spatial scales, from small farms to regions. Participants will also examine how forestry and land-use policies in different regions have affected the structure and management of landscapes where forest regeneration and restoration are occurring. Participants: Bruce Ferguson Eliane Ceccon Francisco Mora Francisco Román Frans Pareyn Jefferson Hall Juan Manuel Dupuy Julieta Benitez Patty Balvanera Stewart Diemont Susana Maza-Villalobos WG5 Secondary forest detection using remote sensing (Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, leader) This working group will explore a range of remote sensing techniques for enhancing secondary forest detection and for investigating landscape dynamics within the study areas represented in the workshop. They will interface with the other working groups to develop a series of remote-sensing based landscape metrics that can be compared across study regions. Participants: Alberto Gallardo Cruz Jean Paul Metzger John Gamon Jose Luis Hernández Stefanoni Luis Daniel Ávila Cabadilla Martha Bonilla-Moheno Mitch Aide Home Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, UNAM Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro No. 8701 Col. Ex-Hacienda de San José de La Huerta C.P. 58190 Morelia Michoacán. MÉXICO Tel: (443) 322-27-04, desde el DF: 5623-27-04 Fax: (443) 322-27-19 desde el DF 5623-27-19 Conmutador: (443) 322-27-77 desde el DF 5623-27-77