FSD 2010 - Plenary Speakers

5th International Symposium-Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal (1985-2010)

Plenary Speakers (all confirmed)

Order of talks (Abstracts)

Campos-Arceiz, Ahimsa & Blake, Steve - Mega-gardeners of the forest -- the role of elephants in seed dispersal.
Gross-Camp, Nicole (Photo top) and Beth A. Kaplin - Differential seed handling by two African primates affects seed fate and establishment of large-seeded trees.
Kitamura, Shumpei (Photo below) - Frugivory and seed dispersal by hornbills (Bucerotidae) in tropical forests.
Horn, Mike, et al. Seed dispersal by fishes in tropical and temperate fresh waters: the growing evidence.
Forey, Estelle, Eisenhauer, Nico et al. Importance of earthworm–seed interactions for the composition of plant communities: a review.
Chen, Jin - Geographic mosaic of selection on cone and seed traits of Pinus armandii by nutcrackers and scatter-hoarding rodents.
Carlo, Tomas - Are generalist consumers the ecological rock stars of plant-frugivore mutualistic networks?

Plenary Symposium Oaks and acorns
Steele, Michael - The importance of multidisciplinary approaches for understanding the seed dispersal process: An example from the North American oaks.

Grivet, Delphine & Garcia, Christina - Propagule and frugivore movements inferred with molecular markers: analytical approaches and evolutionary consequences.
Hamrick, Jim - Using population genetic analyses to understand patterns of seed dispersal.
Garcia, Daniel (Photo top) - The landscape ecology of frugivory and seed dispersal: concepts and applications.
Jones, Andy - Long seed-dispersal distances, genetic structure.
Muller-Landau, Helene (Photo below) The tolerance-fecundity tradeoff and the maintenance of seed size diversity: theory and tests in a tropical forest.
Nathan, Ran - A movement ecology approach for studying seed dispersal by frugivorous animals.
Bullock, James - Complex and simple models of plant spatial dynamics using real dispersal data.

Plenary Symposium Measuring dispersal kernel
Cousens, Roger - What on earth is a dispersal kernel? Why loose terminology confuses everyone and proliferates mistakes.

Fragoso, José - The abundance and diversity of vertebrate frugivores at lanscape levels in Amazonia.
Jansen, Patrick - Hunting impacts on recruitment of large-seeded palm species: Are Neotropical forests getting palm-dominated?
Holbrook, Kimberly (Photo top) - Human impacts on tropical forest dispersal systems: implications for large frugivorous birds and long-distance dispersal.
Böhning-Gaese, Katrin - Movement patterns and seed dispersal by frugivorous birds in fragmented landscape.
Kalko, Elizabeth - Frugivory and seed dispersal by bats: effects of fragmentation and plant succession.
Hampe, Arndt(Photo below) - Plants on the move: dispersal and colonization in a rapidly changing climate.
Westcott, Dave - Modelling dispersal in the context of plant invasions: interactions between dispersal, landscape structure and management determine the most effective management strategy.

Plenary Symposium Anthropogenic impacts
Peres, Carlos. Pervasive consequences of overhunting in Amazonian forests: a basin-wide meta-analysis of kill profiles and implications to ecosystem structure.

Schaefer, H. Martin (Photo top) - Visual communication between fruits and frugivores.
Hossaert-McKey, Martine - Odor as a component of frugivory and seed dispersal syndromes.
Hardesty, Denise (Photo below) - Are all figs dispersed equally? Ficus dispersal and recruitment in northern Australia.
Downs, Colleen - Effect of sugar type and concentration on diet choice and digestion in a range of South African avian frugivores.
Tewksbury, Joshua J. - Rethinking the benefits of vertebrate seed dispersal – Escape, camouflage or pathogen removal?
Jordano, Pedro -The functional value of plant-frugivore mutualistic networks.

Concluding Plenary
Fleming, Ted - A brief history of fruits and frugivores in time and space.