Presentation sessions
Almost all oral presentations are made available online in pdf format. By clicking on the title below the Author(s), you will be able to download the corresponding presentation.
The presentation sessions were subdivided into four topics:
- Ecology of heathlands;
- Historical aspects of heathland ecology and management;
- Restoration management in heathlands;
- Large-scaled ecological restoration of heathlands.
Besides oral presentation sessions, a poster presentation session was held at Monday after lunch with posters handling a broader scope of heathland ecology and/or management.
Monday aug 21
Opening session | 9:00 - 9:20
Welcome by the chair of the European Heathlands Network
Welcome by the organizing committee
Session 1 | Ecology of heathlands | 9:20 - 12:30
9:20-10:00
Keynote lectue 1: Leonor Calvo, Javier Calvo, Angela Taboada, Jose Manuel Fernández Guisuraga & Elena Marcos
Heathlands in the Cantabrian mountain range: structural and functional singularities
Oral presentations
10:00-10:20
Anita Diaz, Franklin L, Brown M, Harvey A, Bailey L & Rickard K.
10:20-10:40
Jaime Fagúndez
Biotic and abiotic factors that shape the Erica mackayana wet heathlands in Galicia, NW Spain
10:40-11:10
Coffee Break
11:10-11:30
Knud Erik Nielsen, Amaia Irizar, Lars Peter Nielsen, Søren M. Kristiansen, Christian Damgaard, Martin Holmstrup, Asger R. Petersen & Morten Strandberg
11:30-11:50
Jenny Schellenberg
North German Lowland heath: vegetation structures and dynamics
11:50-12:10
Chris Dictus
“De Maten” - A unique heathland gem in a densely populated country
12:10-12:30
Andrzej Nienartowicz, Dariusz Kaminski, Mieczyslaw Kunz, Edyta Adamska, Jerzy Holc, Miłosz Deptula, Anna Filbrandt-Czaja, Agnieszka Piernik, Anna Lewandowska-Czarnecka & Silvio Vilgia
Poster presentation session | 13:30 - 14:50
Poster presentations, including a short oral presentation by the first author of the poster
Posters presentations (in alphabetical order of the first author):
Jaime Fagúndez & Carlos V. Muñoz-Barcia
Historical changes in the Erica mackayana heathland cover in Galicia, NW Spain
Alexander Lovegrove, Anita Diaz, Paul Evans & Adrian Newton
The Ecology of Cranesmoor: Over 50 years of change in a Peatland Environment
Alexander Lovegrove, Phillipa Gillingham, Mark Brisbane, Adrian Newton, John Stewart & Anita Diaz
Elena Marcos, Javier Calvo-Fernández, Ángela Taboada, Andreas Fichtner, Werner Härdtle & Leonor Calvo
Resistance of southern montane heathlands to different nitrogen loads
Liv Guri Velle, Kristine Grimsrud, Eystein Jansen, Hanna Lee, Stefan Sobolowski, Endre Tvinnereim & Vigdis Vandvik
David C. Walmsley, Estève Boutaud, Andreas Koopmann, Dirk Mertens, Jelena Schulze, Andreas Schuldt, Uta Steinhardt, Jana Twarok, Mathias Zimmermann and Werner Härdtle
Session 2 | Historical aspects of heathland ecology and management | 15:00 - 17:20
15:00-15:40
Keynote lecture 2A: Theo Spek (CANCELLED)
The cultural biography of heathlands: long-term transformation and regional diversification of society, economy and landscape in the Pleistocene Netherlands (1800 BC – 1900 AD)
15:40-16:20
Keynote lecture 2B: Vigdis Vandvik
A burning issue: Ecological and evolutionary imprints of climate and land-use in coastal heathlands
Oral presentations
16:20-16:40
Jan Bastiaens & Erwin Meylemans
16:40-17:00
Annette Rosengaard Holmelund
Revitalizing Øster Lem Heath nearby Ringkøbing Denmark
17:00-17:20
Martin Woestenburg
The Heathland farm combines nature conservation with food production
Tuesday aug 22
Session 3 | Restoration management in heathlands | 9:00 - 12:30
09.00-09:40
Keynote lecture 3: Werner Härdtle
Restoration of heathland ecosystems – opportunities and ecological constraints
Oral presentations
09:40-10:00
Michiel F. WallisDeVries
Contrasting responses of insect communities to grazing intensity in lowland heathlands
10:00-10:20
Anne Hopf & Gert Rosenthal
10:20-10:40
Joost Vogels, M.J. Weijters, R. Bobbink, H. Bergsma, H. Siepel, B. Van der Riet & E. Verbaarschot-Bohnen
Restoring depleted soil minerals to stop biodiversity loss in dry heathlands?
10.40-11:10
Coffee Break
11:10-11:30
Liv Guri Velle, Siri Haugum, Torgrim Log, Pål Thorvaldse, Gunnar Thuestad & Vigdis Vandvik
New perspectives on heathland management under influence of extreme winter droughts
11:30-11:50
Isabel Alonso & E. Hewins
Agri-environment scheme impact on improving the condition of lowland heathland in England
11:50-12:10
Wim Wiersinga
The Dutch OBN program on research and knowledge transfer on heathlands restoration
12:10-12:30
Marianne van der Veen
The role of provinces in Nature policies in the Netherlands
Thursday aug 24
Session 4 | Large-scaled ecological restoration of heathlands | 8:30 - 12:00
08:30-09:10
Keynote lecture 4: Van Diggelen, R., Van der Bij, A.U., Aggenbach, C., Frouz, J., Bobbink, R., Weijters, M., Harris, J. & Pawlett, M.
Restoring heathlands from agricultural meadows: possibilities and constraints
Oral presentations
09.10-09:30
M. J. Weijters, R.Bobbink, R. Van Diggelen, A.U Van Der Bij, J. Frouz, J. Harris & M. Pawlett
Heathland restoration on former agricultural soils: Tackling bottlenecks
09:30-09:50
H.J.W. Vermeulen, R. van Klink, K. van der Laaken & A. Woldering
09:50-10:10
Roos Loeb, Arrie van der Bij, Roland Bobbink, Jan Frouz, Joost Vogels, Petra Benetková & Rudy van Diggelen
Development of dry Nardo-Galion grassland on former agricultural land
10:10-10:40
Coffee Break
10.40-11:00
Frederik Naedts
LIFE Visbeek: large scale restoration of a small scale heathland
11:00-11:20
Chris Panter, Hannah Mossman, Scott Pedley & Paul Dolman
Biodiversity Audit Approach for heathland conservation: impact and future research
11:20-11:40
Toby Taylor
Opportunities from sand gravel extraction in the UK
11:40-12:00
Hans Dekker
The role of the province of Drenthe in nature conservation with special reference to heathlands
Friday aug 25
Jan Bastiaens
Henk Siepel
Concluding remarks on the 15th european heathlands network workshop (slides)
Concluding remarks on the 15th european heathlands network workshop (text)
Jaques de Smidt
