Programme of the Symposium:
Wednesday 17.11.2010 ("Environmentally oriented day 1")
Thursday 18.11.2010 ("Environmentally oriented day 2")
Friday 19.11.2010 ("Avian research day")
Posters
Abstracts of the presentations
(links to abstracts also in the timetable below)
Wednesday 17.11.2010
9.00: Welcoming words: Felix Björklund (Maj and Tor Nessling
Foundation) and Aki Arkiomaa (BirdLife Finland)
Chair of morning sessions: Timo Kairesalo (Maj and Tor Nessling
Foundation)
Biodiversity targets 2010: Where are we now?
9.10:Keynote speaker: Ian Burfield (BirdLife International)
Biodiversity targets 2010: Where are we now?
9.45: Raimo Virkkala (Finnish Environment Institute):
Northern species in jeopardy due to climate change.
10.05: Heini Kujala (University of Helsinki):
Misleading results from conventional gap analysis -
Messages from the warming North.
10.25: Juha Tiainen (Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute):
Finnish farmland birds thrive better - do agri-environmental
schemes play a role?
10.45: Coffee break
11.15: Irina Herzon (University of Helsinki):
The role of set-aside in reversing decline of farmland birds in Finland.
11.35: Commentary statement: Heikki Korpelainen (Finnish Ministry of Environment)
How to estimate the changes in environment: birds as indicators
11.45: Keynote speaker: Richard Gregory (RSPB/EBCC)
How to estimate the changes in environment: birds as indicators.
12.20: Ari-Pekka Auvinen (Finnish Environment Institute):
Finnish breeding bird indicators in a European context.
12.40: Lunch break
Chair of afternoon sessions: Päivi Tikka (Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation)
13.40: Ilkka Sammalkorpi (Finnish Environment Institute):
Density, biomass and relations of feeding guilds of aquatic birds as
indicators of the ecological state of lakes.
14.00: Daniel Burgas (University of Helsinki):
Raptors as indicators of biodiversity.
14.20: Ville Vepsäläinen (Finnish Museum of Natural History):
Range-margin shifts of boreal birds re-visited - the role of temporal
variation in mapping effort.
Impacts of habitat changes
14.40: Petri Lampila (University of Oulu):
Bird communities in old forest fragments are more dense but less
diverse than in continuous forest.
15.00: Patrik Byholm (University of Helsinki):
Effects of natural and human caused habitat heterogeneity in a habitat
sensitive forest predator, the Northern Goshawk.
15.20: Commentary statement: Katja Matveinen-Huju (Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry)
15.30: Coffee break
Impacts of industrialisation
16.00: Keynote speaker: Anthony Fox (National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark)
Eco-energy and urbanisation: messages from birds about wind turbine proliferation.
16.35: Tapio Eeva (University of Turku):
Nutrition-related pollution impacts on birds.
16.55: Martin Lodenius (University of Helsinki):
The use of feathers of birds of prey as indicators of metal pollution.
17.15: Saila Sillanpää (University of Turku):
Pollution-related changes in carotenoid-based plumage coloration and
fluctuating asymmetry of Great Tit nestlings - roles of food quality and quantity.
17.35: Miia Koivula (University of Turku):
Comparison of EROD activity and redox status in different passerine species.
18.15:Symposium Dinner (In Hanasaari)
Thursday 18.11.2010
Chair of morning sessions: Heikki Toivonen (Finnish Environment Institute)
Global problems need global solutions
9.00: Keynote speaker: Franz Bairlein (Institute of Avian Research, Germany)
Global problems need global solutions.
9.35: William Velmala (Finnish Museum of Natural History):
Effects of non-breeding season conditions on adult survival in Pied Flycatchers.
9.55: Céline Arzel (University of Turku):
Are ducks able to adapt their migratory habits to environmental change?
10.15: Poster session and coffee break
Titles of the poster presentations
11.00:Keynote speakers: Lennart Balk & Per-Âke Hägerroth (Stockholm University)
Wild birds of declining European species are dying from a thiamine deficiency syndrome.
11.35: Johan Ekroos (Aronia Coastal Zone Research Team):
Impacts of climate and parental condition on survival in a declining Eider population.
11.55: Pekka Helle (Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute):
Recent changes in Finnish grouse populations.
12.15: Matti Koivula (Finnish Forest Resesarch Institute):
Post-fire logging alters boreal passerine assemblages.
12.35: Lunch break
Chair of afternoon sessions: Erkki Korpimäki (University of Turku)
Heralds of climate change
13.35: Keynote speaker: Anders P. Møller (Université Paris-Sud)
Complex interactions between components of global change.
14.10: Esa Lehikoinen (University of Turku):
Migratory birds as climate change sensors.
14.30: Andreas Lindén (University of Oslo):
What do first arrival dates tell us?
14.50: Antero Järvinen (Kilpisjärvi Biological Station):
Changes in northern nature: Pied Flycatcher facts from a LTER site
in Finnish Lapland.
15.10: Coffee break
Climate Change & Evolution
15.40: Patrik Karell (University of Helsinki):
Climate change drives microevolution in a wild bird.
16.00: Päivi Sirkiä (University of Turku):
Melanin coloration has temperature-dependent effects on
breeding performance in the Pied Flycatcher.
16.20: Anssi Vähätalo (University of Helsinki):
Milder winters have expanded the wintering range of Tufted Ducks
in the Baltic Sea.
16.40: Aleksi Lehikoinen (Finnish Museum of Natural History):
Climate change has altered the predation pressure of migratory passerines.
17.00: Markus Ahola (University of Turku):
Roles of climatic factors and breeding density in natural selection on
laying date and on clutch size in Pied Flycatcher.
17.20: Emma Vatka (University of Oulu):
Warming climate has advanced breeding and improved synchrony with
the food peak in a boreal passerine.
18.00Evening session for the public in Tieteiden talo (in Finnish)
Friday 19.11.2010
Theme of the day: Bird research without topic limitations
Chair of morning sessions: Mikael Kilpi (Aronia Coastal Zone Research Team)
9.00: Elina Mäntylä (University of Turku):
Birds help plants - a meta-analysis of top-down trophic cascades
caused by avian predators.
9.20: Juhani Rinne:
Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) as a cost effective indicator
for common forests.
9.40: Suvi Ruuskanen (University of Turku):
Long-term fitness consequences of high yolk androgen levels:
sons pay the costs.
10.00: Sari Raja-aho (University of Turku):
Body condition is associated with adrenocortical response in the Barn
Swallow (Hirundo rustica L.) during early stages of autumn migration.
10.20: Coffee break
10.50: Karen Wiebe (University of Saskatchewan):
Influence of spring temperatures and individual traits on reproductive
timing and success in a migratory woodpecker.
11.10: Jukka Rintala (Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute):
The effects of weather and density-dependence on breeding of migratory
passerine based on long-term and large-scale monitoring data.
11.30: Hannu Pöysä (Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute):
Timing of breeding in short-distance migrant birds and the mismatch hypothesis:
offspring recruitment patterns in European Goldeneyes Bucephala clangula.
11.50: Satu Lampila (University of Oulu):
Determinants of nest site selection of the Willow Tit.
12.10: Sari Suhonen (University of Helsinki):
Long term change of habitats and duck distribution in boreal lakes.
12.30: Lunch break
Chair of afternoon sessions: Harto Lindén (Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute)
13.30: Kim Jaatinen (Aronia Coastal Zone Research Team):
Adult predation risk drives shifts in parental care strategies: a long-term study.
13.50: Toni Laaksonen (Finnish Museum of Natural History):
Signals of selection in geographic colour variation of the Pied Flycatcher.
14.10: Miina Kovanen (University of Jyväskylä):
Sexual selection and conservation in the lekking Black Grouse.
14.30: Matti Kervinen (University of Jyväskylä):
Telomere dynamics and individual lifetime fitness in Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix)
14.50: Coffee break
15.20: Suvi Ponnikas (University of Oulu):
Population genetics of the White-tailed Eagle in Finland.
15.40: Heidi Björklund (Finnish Museum of Natural History):
Birds of prey in changing environment.
16.00: Ville Vasko (University of Turku):
Breeding dispersal of Eurasian Kestrels under temporally fluctuating food abundance.
16.20: Kristiina Mannermaa (University of Helsinki):
The history of Cormorants in the Baltic Sea.
Poster presentations:
Kirsi Reponen (University of Turku):
Long-term changes in bird size and condition.
Sari Suhonen (University of Helsinki):
The landscape effect of beaver to breeding ducks in boreal wetlands.
Veli-Matti Väänänen (University of Helsinki):
Divers in national parks - management improve breeding success.
Milla Niemi (University of Helsinki):
Traffic mortality of birds in southern Finland.
Andrea Santangeli (University of Helsinki):
Woodland resource use and raptors: A cost-effective strategy for nest site conservation.
Antti Halkka (University of Helsinki):
Do long-distance migrants use timing zones to adjust their timing of arrival in spring?
Céline Arzel (University of Turku):
Does changing spring phenology affect short and long distance migratory waterfowl similarly?
Esa Hohtola (University of Oulu):
Metabolic adaptation of the Great Tit (Parus major).
Sanna Aitto-Oja (University of Helsinki):
Timebudget of Common Cranes (Grus grus) vary in different habitats - implications for management.
Aurélie Davranche (Erlangen-Nürnberg University Institute of Geography):
Space based tools to monitor the habitats of migratory waterbirds.
Pekka Rusanen (Finnish Environment Institute):
Population dynamics of the Great Cormorant in Finland.
Jari Valkama (Finnish Museum of Natural History):
Finnish Eagle Owls Bubo bubo are in danger - or are they?
Mia Rönkä (University of Turku):
Modelling the occurrence and abundance of a colonial species, the Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) on the Finnish coast.
Veli-Matti Väänänen (University of Helsinki):
Barnacle Geese in Finland - rapid population growth and use of urban areas.
Gaidis Grandāns (University of Daugavpils):
Sex and age structure of the Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) migration at Pape, Latvia.
Kārlis Millers (University of Latvia):
(European) Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) diet in Latvia.
Olli Loukola (University of Oulu):
Intraspecific Learning In Nest-site Selection.
Mārcis Tīrums (University of Latvia):
The ornithophenological time series dependence of climate variables in Snepele (Latvia) from 1947-2007.
