Demography Beyond the Population 24 – 26 March 2015 Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, UK
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Demography Beyond the Population 24 – 26 March 2015 Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, UK #BeyondDemog bes demographicsd brochure march 2015.indd 1 11/03/2015 16:15 Sheffield 11/03/2015 16:15 City Centre Venues Cutler’s Hall F3/4 The Wig & Pen E3 Kelham Island Brewery E1 Division Street D4/E4 2 bes demographicsd brochure march 2015.indd 2 Contents City of Sheffield Map 4 Welcome from the Symposium Organisers 6 Welcome from the BES 7 Symposium Programme Overview 8 Presenter Guidelines & Programme Format 9 Invited Speaker Biographies 11 Monday Workshops 12 Oral Presentations 15 Poster Presentations 18 Social Events 19 Delegate Information 21 The History of Cutlers’ Hall 3 bes demographicsd brochure march 2015.indd 3 11/03/2015 16:15 Welcome to Demography Beyond the Population Welcome to the British Ecological Society The intimate size of the symposium provides Annual Symposium, Demography Beyond unique opportunities for engagement. As such, the Population! The symposium aims to the programme strives to maximize the number highlight the role of demographic tools of voices heard and to offer multiple avenues as bridges across ecological, spatial, for participation. Overall, our goals are to: and temporal scales. For example, how Explore ways in which demography can demography help address questions intersects other areas of ecological in community ecology? To what extent and evolutionary research. can physiological ecology inform our understanding of population dynamics? Identify gaps in ecological and What are the key modeling challenges in evolutionary understanding that can demographic projections? These are timely be informed by an understanding of questions that coincide not only with recent population-level processes. advances in computational and quantitative Elucidate analytical tools and methods, but also with an ever-increasing metrics that facilitate the integration need for predictability in a rapidly changing of population-level processes world. It is only fitting that in order to bridge into other ecological, spatial, and across scales, systems, and disciplines, we temporal scales (and vice versa). should gather together for several days of Here’s to a productive and fun week focused discussion and exchange. in Sheffield! Symposium Organisers We would like to thank all of our sponsors for supporting this event. 4 bes demographicsd brochure march 2015.indd 4 11/03/2015 16:15 Symposium Organisers Alden Griffith Jessica Metcalf Environmental Studies Program, Department of Ecology and Wellesley College Evolutionary Biology and the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton Alden Griffith is an Assistant Professor University in the Environmental Studies Program at Wellesley College. His research Jessica Metcalf is an Assistant Professor broadly examines the influence of at Princeton University, jointly appointed environmental factors and biological interactions on plant between the Office of Population Research in the Woodrow population dynamics. Particular interests involve questions Wilson School & the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary related to the establishment of invasive populations and Biology. Her works links infectious disease dynamics and the role of plant-plant facilitation. Central to his current their implications for policy, and includes investigations into research are quantitative approaches that span biological evolutionary processes shaping longevity and immunity. scales, linking population dynamics to environmental and physiological drivers. Rob Salguero-Gómez Sean McMahon University of Queensland, Temperate Program Coordinator, Max Planck Institute for Smithsonian Environmental Demographic Research, Trinity Research Center College Dublin Sean McMahon is a Senior Scientist Rob Salguero-Gómez is a DECRA Fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental of the Australian Research Council, Research Center, and the Coordinator Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic of the Temperate Program in the Smithsonian’s Forest Global Research and Guest Visitor at Trinity College Dublin. His work Earth Observatory. Although his work focuses on modeling integrates large demographic databases (www.compadre-db. tree demography for projection models, he is interested in org), long-term demographic censuses of plants and animals, mechanisms driving demography, especially in the context and physiological and molecular laboratory techniques to of global change. This interest extends his research activities evaluate what factors render species likely to evolve or to from big plot census data to include tree physiology, escape from senescence across the tree of life. functional traits, remote sensing, and range modeling. Cory Merow Dylan Childs US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of Animal and Plant University of Connecticut Sciences, University of Sheffield Cory Merow is a statistician with the Dylan Childs is a population biologist Division of Migratory Bird Management with interests at both the pure and for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. applied ends of the spectrum. He follows His work focuses on developing an interdisciplinary approach, developing mechanistic forecasts of population, community and data-driven models to understand population dynamics and ecosystem responses to climate change, disturbance, land natural selection in laboratory and free-living populations. use change, and nonnative species. He has worked on He is particularly keen to understand how demographic, understanding community dynamics in the Mediterranean environmental and ecological processes interact to shape shrublands of South Africa, population dynamics of canopy selection on life histories. He is also interested in developing trees in temperate North American forests, and invasive theory and applications for modelling structured populations. species in New England. 5 bes demographicsd brochure march 2015.indd 5 11/03/2015 16:15 Welcome from the BES I find myself in the lucky also seek to understand how environmental position of both welcoming fluctuations and change can influence attendees to this BES population dynamics and the evolution of Symposium “Demography life histories. Talks in this symposium span Beyond the Population”, and multiple fields of ecological research, from taking part in it myself. physiological to evolutionary, conservation The British Ecological Society has a long to ecosystem, fundamental to applied. history of funding and publishing population At its heart is the concept of the structured biology: many of our past presidents population or life history, but the dedicated their entire careers to population symposium deliberately uses this concept modelling, life history evolution, and the as a springboard and looks outwards to study of population dynamics. We have consider the influences of, and influences seen several phase-shifts in our approach to on, demographic patterns and dynamics. population biology in the last few decades. The British Ecological Society is very Modern evolutionary ecologists now proud to host such an exceptional team of seek to understand how life histories and speakers and participants, and I myself am demographies are shaped by top-down, really looking forward to an interactive and bottom-up, and whole-system drivers. We collaborative event. Dave Hodgson BES Honorary Secretary 6 bes demographicsd brochure march 2015.indd 6 11/03/2015 16:15 bes demographicsd brochure march2015.indd 7 Programme Overview Programme 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 12.00 – 14.00 08.30 – 12.00 14.00 – 18.00 Lunch with a talk Morning workshops at the University of Sheffield Afternoon workshops at the University of Sheffield MONDAY by Marco Visser 10:40 15:15 16:10 – 08:00 17.00 – 19.00 09:30 Breakout 11:35 12:30 14:00 Breakout 16.55 Discussions Discussions Registration and Welcome Mixer Session 1A and Posters Session 1B Lunch and Posters Session 1C and Posters Session Coffee/Tea at The Wig & Pen TUESDAY with with 1D Coffee/Tea Coffee/Tea 10:00 14:55 18.30 – 21.30 15:50 – 08:30 Breakout 10:55 12:10 13:40 Breakout Discussions Discussions 17.00 Beer & Burger Tour Session 2A Session 2B Session 2C and Posters Lunch and Posters and Posters Session 2D at Kelham Island with with Brewery WEDNESDAY 08:00 Coffee/Tea Coffee/Tea Coffee/Tea 10:00 15:20 08:30 Breakout 10:55 12:25 13:55 Discussions Coffee/Tea Session 3A and Posters Session 3B Lunch and Posters Session 3C & Farewells THURSDAY with 08:00 Coffee/Tea Coffee/Tea 11/03/2015 16:15 7 Presenter Guidelines and Programme Format Discussion and dialogue with many voices is important to the goals of the symposium. Thus, a variety of presentation formats and semi-structured breaks aim to increase overall engagement and continuity. Oral Presentations, Main Hall Breakout Discussion, Reception All presentations will be held in plenary sessions; a mix of & Drawing Rooms 20 minute presentations by invited speakers and 5 minute During each hour-long break, delegates can participate in “lightning” presentations, with an optional associated poster, one of two breakout discussions that will focus on a range will offer both depth and breadth. Associated talks and of topics, themes, and questions. posters will be shaded in red throughout the programme. Please ensure presentations are loaded onto the laptop in the Main Hall well in advance of your session. There will be student helpers and BES staff to assist if required. Poster Presentations, Old Banqueting Hall We thank the Journal of Animal Ecology and Methods in Ecology and