Invited presentations

Low A.B., Pond U., Gerrans L., Oelofse G., Benn G. & R. Knight: Conservation of an exceptional flora within a unique biodiversity network: the City of Cape Town, South Africa

Krug C.B., Krug R.M., Iponga D.M., Walton B.A., Milton S.J., Newton I.P., Farley N. & N.N. Shiponeni: Restoration of west coast renosterveld: facilitating the return of a highly threatened vegetation type

Krug R.M., Krug C.B., Farley N., Iponga D.M., Newton I., Shiponeni N.N., Walton B.A. & S.J. Milton: Reconstructing west coast renosterveld: past and present ecological processes in a Mediterranean shrubland of South Africa

Troumbis A.: Experimental and theoretical approaches of the biodiversity - ecosystem function debate in MTEs (Last minute cancellation)

Dimitrakopoulos P.G. & A.Y. Troumbis: Biodiversity, stability, and ecosystem functioning in experimental Mediterranean grassland communities

Perevolotsky A.: Nature conservation in Mediterranean environments: the Israeli experience

Pauw J.A., Hawkins & W.J. Bond: Reconstruction of a historical pollination landscape reveals the disruption of mutualisms in small conservation areas

Groeneveld J. & N.J. Enright: A metapopulation model analysis for the fire-killed shrub, Banksia hookeriana, in southwestern Australia

Armstrong P.: Impacts of fires occurring on rare Grevillea (Proteaceae) in southern Western Australia

Rego F., S. Dias, S. Mesquita & F. Fernandes- Gonzalez: Hierarchical decomposition of plant diversity in “cork-oak agrosystems”: from habitats to landscapes

Detsis V. & H. Briassoulis: Conserving biodiversity and combating desertification: achieving synergies

Marquet P.A., Tognelli M., Barria I., Escobar M., Garin C. & P. Soublette: How well are Mediterranean ecosystems protected in Chile? Insights from gaps in the conservation of Chilean vertebrates

Sfougaris A., Giannakopoulos A., Alivizatos C. & Weigelt C.: Conservation of a raptor in an intensively cultivated agroecosystem: the case of lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) in Thessally plain, central Greece

Haim A., Weiss D., Rosenberg B. & Y. Dagan: Human Impact on the Mediterranean ecosystem of Israel as reflected by amphibian species

Henkin Z., Hadar L. & I. Noy-Meir: Effect of cattle and goat grazing on landscape features and human visual qualities in Northern Israel

Ne’eman G., Schwartz-Tzachor, R. & A. Perevolotsky: The effect of cattle grazing on the Mediterranean geophyte Anemone coronaria L.

Valladares F.: Global change and radiation in Mediterranean forest ecosystems: a meeting point for ecology and management

Bar (Kutiel) P.: Landscape changes along the coastal sand dunes in Israel – dilemmas and challenges for conservation and management objectives

Arianoutsou M.: Predicting the post-fire regeneration and resilience of Mediterranean plant communities

Lamont B., Enright N., Groeneveld J. & T. He: Coping with fire in species-rich heathlands – Is there an optimum fireinterval for management? (Slides presentation)

Tsitsoni T.K., Tsakaldimi M.N., Ganatsas P.P. & T.D. Zagas: Effect of post fire treatments on the natural regeneration of Pinus brutia in northern Greece

Zagas T.D., Ganatsas P.P., Tsitsoni T.K. & M. Tsakaldimi: Thinning effect on stand structure of Holm oak stand in northern Greece 11.05-11.30 Coffee break

Wardell-Johnson G. & M. Calver: Resolving historical sustainability in Western Australia’s jarrah forests

Grant C., Koch J. & I. Colquhoun: Returning the botanical richness of the jarrah forest in restored bauxite mines in western Australia

Koehler H., Heyser W. & R. Kesel: Field experiments to accelerate succession and improve Quercus ilex establishment with a renaturation technique (ReviTec®)

Richardson D.M., Rouget M., Nel J.L. & L. Henderson: Invasive alien plants in South Africa: macroecological patterns, with special emphasis on the Cape Floristic Region

Keeley J.E.: Invasive plants and fire management in California Mediterranean-climate ecosystems

Dini-Papanastasi O.: Robinia pseudoacacia L.: a dangerous invasive or a useful multi purpose tree species in the Mediterranean environment?

Hulme P.E.: The current threat to Mediterranean islands from invasive non-native plants

Lloret, F., Lambdon P., Hulme P.E., Camarda I., Brundu G., & F. Médail: Local and regional abundance of exotic plant species on Mediterranean islands: species traits or island attributes?

Brundu G., Camarda I., Hulme P.E., Vilá M., Troumbis A., Traveset A. & E. Moragues: Comparative analysis of the abundance and distribution of alien plants on Mediterranean islands

Raquin A, Edwards-Jones, G. & Bardsley D.: Costs and benefits of invasive exotic plants in the Mediterranean

Masseti M.: The post-Pleistocene non-volant terrestrial mammals of the Dodecanese archipelago. An example of the role of the biological invasion of allochthonous species in the homogenisation of island biodiversity (Slides presentation)

Esler K.J. & Boucher C.: The potential impact of alien woody plant invasions and their control on alien seed banks in the western Cape, South Africa

Stow D., Coulter L., Hamada Y., Lieberman A., Kaiser J., Jafolla J. & L. Hendricks: Airborne multispectral and hyperspectral imaging for management of invasive plants in southern California

Böhling Niels: Southern Aegean indicator values - Derivation, application and perspectives

Chambel M.R., Alia R. & J. Climent: Intra-specific variation of phenotypic plasticity for biomass allocation in Mediterranean pines

Davis S.D., Pratt B., Ewers, F. & T.J. Bowen: Interactions between water stress and freezing regulates chaparral distribution patterns in coastal California

Pratt R.B., McElwain K.A. & S.D. Davis: Relationship between life history type and resistance to xylem cavitation in California chaparral

Petanidou Theodora: Temporal patterns of resource selection in plant-pollinator communities in the Mediterranean: what do they really tell us?

Perez-Fernández M.A., Lamont B., Rodriguez-Echeverria S. & E. Calvo-Magro: Testing for promiscuity among legumes and rhizobia: an intercontinental comparison

Stamou G.P., Papatheodorou E.M., Stamou G.V. & M.D. Argyropoulou: Using fuzzy systems to simulate population dynamics of Mediterranean arthropods

Kaynas B.Y. & B. Gurkan: The changes of beetle community structure along a successional gradient in Pinus brutia ecosystem (Last minute cancellation)

Thanos C.A.: Bradychory - the coining of a new term

Krauss S., T. He T., Lamont B., Miller B., Barrett L. & N. Enright: Short- and long-distance seed dispersal in a metapopulation of Banksia hookeriana (Proteaceae)

Enright N., Johnson N., Lamont B. & B. Miller: Soil seedbanks in three contrasting high diversity Mediterranean-type shrublands from SW Australia

Kigel J., Osem Y. & A. Perevolotsky: Similarity between seed-bank and ensuing vegetation is productivity dependent in a semi-arid Mediterranean annual plant community