Please note that the programme may subject to revisions.
| Tuesday 28 September |
| 08:00-09:00 |
Registration |
09:00-09:30
Chair:
István Láng (HU); Andreas Seiler (SE) |
Opening ceremony |
Dr. Benedek Jávor, Chair of the Sustainable Development Committee of the Hungarian Parliament
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| 09:30-11:00 |
Plenary sessions |
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Mitigating road effects on wildlife populations: why we know less than we think we know |
Lenore Fahrig |
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Children's competition, prize award |
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| 11:30-12:00 |
Coffee break |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Parallell sessions |
Policy and planning
Chair:
Lars Nilsson (SE);
Tony Sangwine (UK) |
Transport sensitive areas in Europe: Identification and policy instruments |
Lennart Folkesson, Anna Melin, Gunnar Lindberg |
| A methodology to assess impacts of plans and programmes on the network foundation of Natura 2000 |
Johan Lammerant |
| Two milestones in the realisation of the long-term defragmentation program |
Hans Bekker, Bert Stegehuis, Martijn de Haan, Marleen Moelants |
Implementing ecological knowledge in road planning:
Road 73, a practical example from Sweden |
Lars Nilsson |
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Disturbance, pollution and invasion
Chair:
Lisa Dolan (IE);
J-O Helldin (SE) |
The effect of highways on native vegetation and reserve distribution in the state of São Paulo, Brazil |
Simone R. Freitas, Cláudia O. M. Sousa, Jean Paul Metzger |
| Traffic noise impact on biodiversity - a method for assessment |
J-O Helldin, Per Collinder, Åsa Karlberg |
Railroad construction and farmland breeding birds
- a study of the Bothnia Line |
Adriaan deJong |
| Interactions between road infrastructure and adjacent ecosystems |
Lisa Dolan |
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Road mortality and barrier impacts
Chair:
Antonio Mira (PT); Marco Dinetti (IT);
Marguerite Trocmé Maillard (CH) |
Spatial wildlife-vehicle collison models: A review of current work and recommendations for their application to transportation mitigation projects |
Kari E. Gunson,
Giorgos Mountrakis |
| The factors implied in bird casualty distribution on motorways |
Eric Guinard, Romain Julliard, Christophe Barbaud |
| Behavioural responses of barn owls and stone martens to highways: Do ecological or highway features explain the differences? |
Clara Grilo et al |
| Patterns of amphibian fatalities in a Mediterranean landscape: insights from a low traffic road in Southern Portugal |
Paulo Sá-Sousa |
| 13:30-14:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30-16:00 |
Parallell sessions |
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EIA and SEA
Chair:
Johan Lammerant (BE);
Malin Andersson (SE) |
Methods and tools for integration of landscape level ecological impacts in environmental assessment |
Martina Walter, Ulla Mörtberg, Berit Balfors |
| New roads versus landscapes |
Eva Kaczmarczyk |
| Wildlife and roads: world problems, sustainable solutions |
Tom Langton |
| Identification and comparison of road and railway projects effects on natural habitats |
A. Ginot, D. François, A. Jullien |
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Fauna passages
and their efficacy
Chair:
Miklós Puky (HU); Edgar van der Grift (NL) |
Beyond passage use: How to evaluate effectiveness of road mitigation for wildlife populations |
Rodney van der Ree, Edgar van der Grift, Jochen Jaeger, Lenore Fahrig, Francisco Madrinan, Glenn Cunnington, Scott Findlay, Jeff Houlahan, Nina Klar |
| Testing amphibian tunnels under motorways in Hungary |
Balázs Vági,
Tibor Kovács,
János Török |
| What is the impact of human co-use of wildlife overpasses on the use of these crossing structures by wildlife? |
Edgar van der Grift, Fabrice Ottburg, Jolanda Dirksen |
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Road mortality and barrier impacts
Chair:
Antonio Mira (PT); Marco Dinetti (IT);
Marguerite Trocmé Maillard (CH)
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Assessing road effects on bats. The role of landscape, road features and bat activity on roadkills |
Denis Medinas, J. Tiago Marques, António Mira |
| All wildboar-vihicle collisions respond to the same variables? Looking for patterns using self-organizing maps |
Víctor Javier Colino Rabanal, Miguel Lizana Avia, Salvador José Peris Álvarez |
| Can we model wolf-vehicle collisions? Using a logistic model with corrections to identify the variables involved in the road-kills |
Víctor Javier Colino Rabanal, Miguel Lizana Avia, Salvador José Peris Álvarez |
| The risk of being hungry: Influence of prey availability in verges on predator skills |
Carmo Silva, Antonio Mira, M. Paula Simões |
| Potential impact of motorway and express roads upon migratory trails of wolves in Poland |
Bogusław Bobek, Marta Wojciuch-Płoskonka |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
| 16:30-18:00 |
Parallell sessions |
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Fragmentation
and landscape
Chair:
Johen Jaeger (CA); Andreas Seiler (SE) |
Monitoring landscape fragmentation in Europe: How well can socio-economic variables explain the differences between regions? |
Jochen A.G. Jaeger, Luis F. Madriñán, Tomas Soukup, Christian Schwick, Hans-Georg Schwarz-von Raumer, Felix Kienast |
| Towards intregrative SEA: From fragmentation indices to landscape sensitivity units |
Lena Pernkopf, Stefan Lang |
| Response times of amphibian populations to replacement pond following road construction |
David Lesbarrères |
| Studies of road effects on small vertebrates in southern California, USA |
Cheryl S. Brehme, Robert N. Fisher |
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Fauna passages and their efficacy
Chair:
Miklós Puky (HU); Edgar van der Grift (NL) |
Bat crossings across Irish national roads - implications for planning mitigation measures |
Isobel Abbott, Fidelma Butler, Simon Harrison |
| Comparison of ecoducts structure systems in the region of Central Europe |
Jan Pěnčík, Marek Foglar |
| Amphibian mitigation measures design: do we focus enough on conservation status and species- specific requirements? |
Miklós Puky |
| Vegetion structure on overpasses is critical in overcoming the road barrier effect for small birds |
Darryl Jones |
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Road mortality and barrier impacts
Chair:
Antonio Mira (PT); Marco Dinetti (IT);
Marguerite Trocmé Maillard (CH) |
Car accidents caused by wild fauna in the Tuscany region |
Paolo Banti, Francesco Sorbetti-Guerri |
Factors influencing vertebrate carcasses retention time on roads:
A preliminary study on Mediterranean context |
Filipe Carvalho, António Mira |
| Analysis of the relationship between seasonal and locational features of Sika deer-vehicle collisions in Hokkaido, Japan and deer ecology towards collision reduction |
Misako Noro, Fumihiro Hara, Ayami Saga, Toru Hagiwara |
| Spatial and temporal evaluation of the wildlife-vehicle collisions along the M3 Highway in Hungary |
Ferenc Markolt, László Szemethy, Róbert Lehoczki, Miklós Heltai |
| Birds and transportation infrastructure |
Marco Dinetti |
| 18:00-19:00 |
Poster session 1 |
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| 20:00 |
Social event: visit to Brunswick Palace |
| Wednesday 29 September |
| 08:30-10:00 |
Plenary sessions |
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Highspeed railways and nature conservation: a growing challenge or an opportunity? |
Michael Below |
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Transport ecology in Japan and Asia |
Fumihiro Hara |
| 10:00-11:30 |
Parallell sessions |
Ecological networks and corridors as
tools for defragmentation
Chair:
Ruben Huele et al (NL); Marita Böttcher et al (DE)
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Ecological networks in the Czech Republic |
Hlaváč, V., Anděl, P., Andreas, M., Mináriková, T., Strnad, M., Gorčicová, I., Romportl, D. and Bláhová, A. |
| Design of multifunctional landscape corridors using effective mesh-size for regional targeting of urban development restrictions and open space development |
Hans-Georg Schwarz-v.Raumer, Heide Esswein |
| Biotope networks - networks of life: promoting a forest corridor system with a European perspective |
Hoerstermann Mark, Thomas Mölich, Jochen Vogel |
| From patchwork to network: ECONAT |
Hans Bekker, Phil Baader |
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Case studies: Mitigation and monitoring
Chair:
Anders Sjölund (SE);
J-O Helldin (SE) |
Mitigating the impact of the highway E314 crossing the National Park Hoge Kempen (Province of Limburg, Flanders, Belgium) |
Jorg Lambrechts |
| Identification of corridors and linkage zones for brown bears as a compensation measure to the impacts of the construction of the “E65” highway in Central Greece |
Bousbouras, D. L., Georgiadis, D. Chouvardas, C.Evangelou, L. Krambokoukis, E. Lampou, A.A. Karamanlidis |
| Making the connection: Mammal mitigation measures on national road schemes in Ireland |
Finnerty, E. J., Whelan, P.M., Emmerson, M., Dolan, L. M. J. |
| Wildlife accidents. The new Swedish preventing strategy. |
Anders Sjölund |
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Transport corridors
as habitat
Chair:
Peter Spooner (AUS); Sofia Gylje (SE) |
Contrasting fragmentation and disturbance effects on roadside vegetation |
Peter G. Spooner, John Losciavo |
| Biodiversity in railway environment. How to measure, preserve and enhance threatened species on railways. |
Magnus Larsson, Sofia Larsson |
| Can infrastructure habitats contribute to the preservation of threatened biodiversity? |
Tommy Lennartsson, Sofia Gylje Blank, J-O Helldin, Anna Dahlström |
| Living on the verge: Are roads a more suitable refuge for small mammals than streams? |
Helena Marques, António Mira |
| A study on some insect groups in Hungarian highway margins (Orthoptera, Coccoidea, Auchenorrhyncha) |
Balázs Kiss, Ferenc Kozár, Barnabás Nagy, Éva Szita |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Coffee break |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Parallell sessions |
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Ecological networks and corridors as tools for defragmentation
Chair:
Ruben Huele et al (NL); Marita Böttcher et al (DE) |
Network of protected areas in Central European border regions |
Marco Neubert, Sylvi Bianchin |
| From national planning to regional implementation: initiatives for reconnection of habitats in key areas in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) |
Björn Schulz |
| Restoring the web of life – Ecological networks for more biodiversity in the Alps |
Yann Kohler |
| Developing an ecological continuum suitability index for the Alps – Acting with indicators, geodata and web based map tools |
Ruedi Haller, Dominik Affolter, Christian Schmid, Angelika Abderhalden |
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Defragmentation approaches for existing transport networks
Chair:
Carme Rosell (ES); Edgar van der Grift (NL) |
The Swiss defragmentation program - from design to global planning.
An overview. |
Marguerite Trocmé |
| Roads and wetlands: Can we mitigate the impact of the existing transport network? |
Rosell, C., Navàs, F., Carol, J., Fernández Bou, M., Romera de Tejada, S. García Suikkanen, C., Vera, P., Hernández, C., Benedito, V. |
| Efficiency of re-connecting habitat networks for invertebrate populations - an integrated approach for impact assessment and landscape planning |
Reinhard Klenke, Rüdiger Jooss |
| A regional mitigation blueprint for herpetofauna in Southern Ontario |
Kari E. Gunson, Dave Ireland, Frederick W. Schueler |
| Restoring ecological networks across transport corridors in Bulgaria |
Edgar A. van der Grift, Valko Biserkov, Vanya Simeonova |
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Fences and animal detection systems
Chair:
Marcel Huijser (USA); Mattias Olsson (SE)
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How effective are wildlife fences in preventing collisions with wild ungulates? |
Milla Niemi, Anne Martin, Ari Tanskanen, Petri Nummi |
| The barrier effect of twin tracked, non fenced railroads in Sweden |
Mattias Olsson, Evelina Augustsson, Andreas Seiler, Per Widén, J-O Helldin |
| A quantitative comparison of the reliability of animal detection systems and recommended requirements for system reliability |
Marcel P. Huijser, Tiffany D.H. Allen, Matt Blank, Mark C. Greenwood, Shaowei Wang |
| Restoring permeability of roads for wildlife: wildlife warning systems in practice |
Martin Strein |
| 13:30-14:30 |
Lunch & luncheon (IENE awards) |
| 14:30-18:00 |
Workshops |
| Friday 1 October |
| 08:30-10:00 |
Plenary sessions |
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Transport ecology in North America |
Paul J. Wagner |
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Transport infrastructure planning in Europe |
Tony Sangwine |
| 10:00-11:30 |
Parallell session / workshops |
Trans European wildlife network
Chair: Annette Spangenberg (DE);
Djuro Huber (HR)
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Introduction to Trans European Wildlife Network |
Djuro Huber, Annette Spangenberg |
Mitigation of negative impact of transport infrastructure on large
carnivores in Poland |
Sabina Nowak, Włodzimierz Jędrzejewski, Robert Mysłajek |
| Using the Brown bear (Ursus arctos) as an indicator species for landscape connectivity - a tool for spatial conservation prioritization |
Thomas A.M. Kaphegyi, Csaba Domokos |
| Green bridges and other structures for permeability of highways in Croatia:
Case of large carnivores |
Djuro Huber, Josip Kusak |
| Brown bear connectivity in Bulgaria and the effect of the highways |
Diana Zlatanova, Alexander Dutsov, Kostadin Valchev |
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Workshop |
IENE project: Geographic interactive database on fauna passages |
Chair: Andreas Seiler (SE), Javier del Real (ES) |
Workshop |
Ecological connectivity - towards a framework for understanding network nature |
Chair: Ruben Huele, Hans Bekker, Helias A. Udo de Haes (NL) |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Coffee break |
| 12:00-13.30 |
Plenary session |
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Conclusions of the conference |
Lars Nilsson |
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Closing remarks, outlook to the next conference in 2012 |
Andreas Seiler, Miklós Puky |
| 13:30-14:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30-18:00 |
IENE General Assembly 2010 |
