27 September – 1 October 2010. Velence, Hungary

Programme: Sessions and workshops

Plenary sessions Chair
Transport infrastructure planning in Europe

Tony Sangwine

Highspeed railways and nature conservation: a growing challenge or an opportunity? Michael Below
Mitigating road effects on wildlife populations: why we know less than we think we know Lenore Fahrig
Transport ecology in North America Paul J. Wagner
Transport ecology in Japan and Asia Fumihiro Hara

Session

Chair

Opening ceremony István Láng, Honorary Chair of the National Council for Environmental Protection, Hungary

Policy and planning

Lars Nilsson, SE; Tony Sangwine, UK

EIA and SEA

Johan Lammerant, BE; Malin Andersson, SE

Road mortality and barrier impacts

Antonio Mira, PT; Marco Dinetti, IT; Marguerite Trocmé, CH

Disturbance, pollution and invasion

Lisa Dolan, IE; J-O Helldin, SE

Transport corridors as habitat

Peter Spooner, AUS; Sofia Gylje, SE

Fragmentation and landscape

Jochen Jaeger, CA; Andreas Seiler, SE

Case studies; mitigation and monitoring

Anders Sjölund, SE; J-O Helldin, SE

Fauna passages and their efficacy Miklós Puky, HU; Edgar van der Grift, NL

Fences and animal detection systems

Marcel Hujiser, USA; Mattias Olsson, SE

Ecological networks and corridors as tools for defragmentation

Marita Böttcher, DE; Ruben Huele, NL

Defragmentation approaches for existing transport networks

Carme Rosell, ES; Edgar van der Grift, NL

Fences and animal detection systems Marcel Huijser, USA; Mattias Olsson, SE
Workshops Chair
CEDR task 7 Wildlife and Traffic – Gaps in COST 341 Handbook »

Hans Bekker, NL; Birgitte Henriksen, DK

CEDR task 7 Wildlife and Traffic – Efficient institutional systems » Lars Nilsson, SE; Birgitte Henriksen, DK

Rail and Road »

Malin Andersson, SE

Ecological connectivity – Towards a Framework for Understanding Network Nature »

Ruben Huele, NL; Hans Bekker, NL; Helias A. Udo de Haes, NL

Fragmentation - Measures and indicators »

Jochen Jaeger, CAN

IENE project: Interactive geo-database on Fauna passages »

Javier del Real (ES), Andreas Seiler (SE)