August 2 - 7, 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sustaining an Anthropogenic Biosphere
Humans have now irreversibly reshaped ecosystem processes and biodiversity across most of the terrestrial biosphere. Yet ecological scientists, educators and the public continue to understand the biosphere in terms of conventional biome systems and other representations of the biosphere that either ignore humans altogether or that simplify human influence into a few dimensions of disturbance, impact or domination. To guide sustainable management of the biosphere in the future, ecologists and educators need to rebuild ecological science and education on a framework that incorporates humans not only as destroyers of natural systems, but as the essential and permanent reshapers, conservators and managers of the biosphere at local, regional and global scales.
Organizer
Speakers
1:30 PM
Richard V. Pouyat, USDA Forest Service.
The interaction between urban land-use and climate change
1:50 PM
Navin Ramankutty, McGill University, Erle Ellis, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, Deborah Lightman, McGill University
Anthropogenic biomes: A new framework for global ecology
2:10 PM
Ruth DeFries, Columbia University, Erle Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore
County
Observing the terrestrial biosphere and its changes
2:30 PM
Walter Jetz, University of California, San Diego
Species-level global change ecology in the face of an
ever-growing gap between environmental and ecological knowledge
2:50 PM
Michael A. Huston, Texas State University, Steve Wolverton, University of North
Texas
The global distribution of ecosystem sustainability and net
primary productivity
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM
Lilian Alessa, University of Alaska Anchorage, Andrew Kliskey, University of
Alaska Anchorage
Rethinking the ecology of social ecological systems
3:40 PM
Simon Blanchet, University Paul Sabatier, Gael Grenouillet, University Paul
Sabatier, Olivier Beauchard, University of Antwerp, Thierry Oberdorff, Institut
de Recherche pour le Développement, Sebastien Brosse, University Paul Sabatier
Biological invasions shape the worldwide pattern of freshwater
fish body size: The Bergmann’s nightmare
4:00 PM
Heather M. Leslie, Brown University, Karen L. McLeod, COMPASS and Oregon State
University
Conserving marine ecosystem services in a changing world
4:20 PM
C. Restrepo, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, Miriam Janette Gonzalez,
Region Frontera Sur, Juan Carlos Castro-Hernandez, Region Frontera Sur
Landslides, natural protected areas, and the long-term
management of mountainscapes: Emerging challenges from the study of the El
Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico
4:40 PM
Charles A. Hall, SUNY Environmental
Science and Forestry
Relation of energy supplies
and energy return on investment to a global sustainable
society