Conference Schedule
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On this tab, you can find the full schedule for the BES Conservation Ecology & Tropical Ecology Joint Twitter Conference #TropiCon21.
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All days run 13:00-17:00 GMT
Day 1: Wednesday 3rd November
Day 2: Thursday 4th November
Day 3: Friday 5th November
Day 1: Wednesday 3rd November
13:00 - 17:00 GMT
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13:00 Welcome!
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13:02 Plenary by Daisy Dent (@DaisyDent)
Tropical secondary forests now comprise more than half of the world's remaining tropical forests and are increasingly well studied. I will summarise advances in our understanding of secondary forests and highlight opportunities for further research.
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13:30 Katrin Heer (@KatrinHeer)
dispersal; vertical stratification
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13:45 Frederick Asante (@Frederi12046413)
Ankobra mangrove; vegetation structure; resource utilisation
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14:00 Annia Streher (@anniaastronaut)
deep-learning; Amazon; leaf phenology
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14:15 Daniel Hending (@DanHending)
ecological niche modelling; geographic distribution; Phaner
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14:30 BREAK
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14:45 Tanwar Kamakshi (@kamakshi_tanwar)
temporal activity pattern; ungulates; habitat use
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15:00 Alvise Dabalà (@AlviseDab)
Spatial prioritization; data science; mangroves
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15:15 Elina Mäntylä (@elinamantyla)
herbivory; plant defence; season
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15:30 Lucy Wells (@lucyhelenwells2)
dry tropics; biome; earth observation
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15:45 Pundir Sourabh (@sourabhpundir24)
caracal; extinction; habitat suitability
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16:00 BREAK
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16:15 Lightning Tweets
Julian Donald; Carlos Victor Dourado Batista; Tusheema Dutta; Emmanuel Akindele; Nina Lys Nunes; Sangram Chavan; Viljay Ramesh; James Borrell
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17:00 End of Day 1
Day 2: Thursday 4th November
13:00 - 17:00 GMT
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13:00 Welcome
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13:15 Alejandro de la Fuente (@Afuentepinero)
abundance-suitability relationship; Australian Wet Tropics; niche theory
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13:30 Daniela Requena Suarez (@drequenasuarez)
forest disturbance; recovery
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13:45 Lilian Unger (@lilyunger)
palaeolimnology; freshwater; restoration
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14:00 Thiago Silva (@thi_sanna)
Amazon; climate change; wetlands
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14:15 BREAK
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14:30 Plenary by Conservation Optimism (@ConservOptimism)
Join the Conservation Optimism Team to dive into their Positive Communication Toolkit. You will get some tips on how to frame your messages to help you empower people to take action for tropical ecosystems.
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15:00 Tamali Mondal (@forestandocean6)
invasive plant; ecological niche modeling; hotspot analysis
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15:15 Julie Teresa Shapiro (@JulieTheBatgirl)
Chiroptera; bat conservation; land-use change
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15:30 Jorge A. Giraldo (@jagiral1)
tropical trees; dendrochronology; ever-wet forest
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15:45 BREAK
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16:00 Kerstin Pierick (@KerstinPierick)
fine roots; functional traits; tropical montane forests
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16:15 Toby Jackson (@Toby_D_Jackson)
carbon; LiDAR; disturbance
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16:30 Emma Duley (@emma_duley)
eDNA; plants; restoration
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16:45 Daniel Augusto da Silva (@silvadaniel888)
LAI; SEM; edge effect
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17:00 End of Day 2
Day 3: Friday 5th November
13:00 - 17:00 GMT
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13:00 Welcome
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13:15 Julia G. de Aledo (@DPZ_JGA)
​diversity; dominance; latitude
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13:30 Veronarindra Ramananjato (@nah_vero)
Microcebus; conservation; tropical forest
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13:45 Oliver Wilson (@olijwilson)
Brazil; climate change; biogeography​
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14:00 Isabel Jones (@_Isabel_Jones)
trade-offs; hydropower; sustainable development goals
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14:15 BREAK
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14:30 Trisha Gopalakrishna (@trishuphigh)
​nature based solutions; spatial prioritization; ecosystem benefits
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14:45 TaiÃŒs da Silva Siqueira (@TaisTas04618108)
Neotropical region; low order streams; fish assemblage
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15:00 Samuel Appiah Ofori (@macnaki)
​mangrove conservation; shrimp farming; ecological footprint
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15:15 Plenary by Adam Algar (@acalgar)​
Scaling thermal ecology: from organisms to orders, seconds to centuries, and gaps to the globe
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15:45 BREAK
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16:00 Closing Ceremony
The Closing Ceremony is taking place live on Zoom. It will include a Panel Discussion with our plenary speakers, plus awards giving. The Zoom link will be sent to all presenters and registrants.
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17:00 End of #TropiCon21