We-1 Wednesday, 25 August - 09.00 to 10.30 hrs
OPENING SESSION
09.00 Opening remarks and welcome
Dr Declan Murray, Chairman, FFAIS-5.
Dr Hugh Brady, President, University College Dublin.
Professor M.J. Kennedy, Dean of the Faculty of Science, UCD.
Professor Tom Bolger, Department of Zoology and Division of Biosciences, UCD.
Dr Alan Craig, Director, National Parks and Wildlife, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin.
Dr John Faulkner, Director, Environment and Heritage Service, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
09.40 (Keynote - K2) Hoyt, Erich. Sustainable Ecotourism on Islands, with Special Reference to Whale Watching and Marine Protected Areas and Sanctuaries for Cetaceans.
10.30-11.00 Refreshment break
We-2 Wednesday, 25 August - 11.00 to 12.40 hrs
CONSERVATION, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT & ECOTOURISM
Chair:
11.00 Merino, S.E. & Berrow, S. Marine Eco-tourism in Cape Verde, its potential for sustainable development and conservation of marine biodiversity.
11.20 Martins, Helen R.; Bolten, Alan B.; Santos, Marco A.; Ferreira, Rogério L. & Bjorndal, Karen A. Conservation of marine turtles in the Azores: Experiment to reduce by-catch in the longline fishery.
11.40 Berrow, Simon. Frameworks for developing responsible whale watching in Ireland and on other islands in the Northeast Atlantic.
12.00 Wenzel, Frederick W.; Allen, Judy; Berrow, Simon; Jann, Beatrice; Lien, Jon; Martin, Anthony R. & Seton, Rosemary E. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) of the Cape Verde Islands.
12.20 McAdam, Jim & Broughton, David. The current status of and threats to, the flora of the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic.
12.40-14.00 Lunch break
We-3 Wednesday, 25 August - 14.00 to 16.00 hrs
WORKSHOP Ecotourism /Cetaceans takes place in the T.E. Nevin Room, Department of Physics from 14.40 to 18.00 hrs with a break for poster viewing and refreshments at 16.00hrs.
ENDEMISM AND GENETIC DIVERSITY We-3a
Chair:
14.00 (Keynote - K3) Abbott, Richard J. Recent Plant Speciation in Britain and Ireland.
14.40 Lourenço, Paula; Rocha, Fernando; Ventura, Anunciação; Backeljau, Thierry & Thierry, Dominique. Molecular systematics of the Chrysoperla carnea complex (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) in Europe.
15.00 Bennett, Elaine; Whelan, Pádraig & Jones, Peter. Phenotypic variation in populations of Tuberaria guttata (L.) Fourreaux in Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula.
15.20 Romeiras, M.M.; Ascensão, L.; Duarte, M.C.; Pais, M.S. & Diniz, M.A. Morphology and ecology of Echium hypertropicum, an endemic and endangered species of Santiago Island.
15.40 Khadem, Mahnaz; Camacho, Roberto; Munté, Agusti; Aguadé, Montserrat & Segarra, Carmen. Is nucleotide diversity reduced in endemic species? A case study in Drosophila madeirensis.
16.00 Refreshments
We-4 Wednesday, 25 August - 16.00 to 18.00 hrs
POSTER SESSION 1 (Stands 1-20)
Themes
Conservation, Sustainable Development and Ecotourism
Endemism and Genetic Diversity
Invasive Species
STAND 1 Elias, Sónia S.; Dias, Eduardo & Elias, Rui B. Floristic and structural indicators of disturbance and stability in Azorean peat bogs: tools for ecological restoration.
STAND 2 Botelho, Andrea Z.; Costa, Ana C. & Calado, Helena. Monitoring as a management tool for coastal conservation in Azores.
STAND 3 Faria, Bernardo F. & Madeira, Ana M. Madeira INTERREG III B “OGAMP” Project (MAC/4.2/A2) – Regulation and Management of Marine Protected Areas at Porto Santo Island.
STAND 4 Bartsch, Inka & Tittley, Ian. Conservation of intertidal rocky shore biotopes of the island of Helgoland.
STAND 5 Delgado-García, Juan D. Road edge effect on an endemic lacertid lizard in two Canary Islands forests.
STAND 6 Leeney, Ruth H. & Crowe, Tasman P. Designing strategies for monitoring cetacean populations: spatio-temporal patterns of distribution of harbour porpoises.
STAND 7 Sangil, Carlos; Díaz-Villa, Tania; Tronholm, Ana; Montañés, Ángeles; Sansón, Marta & Afonso-Carrillo, Julio. Threatened marine flora from La Palma (Canary Islands).
STAND 8 Williams, Bryony; Walsh, Michael & Gormally, Mike. Monitoring hill sheep behaviour for blanket bog conservation in the west of Ireland.
STAND 9 Morales, Gustavo M.; Escudero, Carlos G.; Méndez-Hernández, Javier & Otto, Rüdiger. Restoration of a coastal protected natural area in Tenerife, Canary Islands.
STAND 10 Williams, Christopher D.; Mc Donnell, Rory J.; Moran, James; Regan, Eugenie & Gormally, Mike J. The environmental requirements of Sciomyzidae (Diptera) on turloughs in the west of Ireland.
STAND 11 Merino, S.; López-Jurado, L.F. & Varo, N. The conservation of the marine turtle populations in the Cape Verde islands by ecotourism activities.
STAND 12 Chadwick, Elizabeth & Slater, Fred. Sustainable Ecotourism in the Cape Verde Islands.
STAND 13 Marques, V. & Jann, B. Cetaceans of the Cape Verde Islands.
STAND 14 Barbosa, A. M.; Câmara,H. G. & Ribeiro L. Caldeira Velha: the recovery of a Natural Regional Monument.
STAND 15 Matthews, David J.; Gallagher Thomas F. & Otte, Marinus L. An analysis of genetic variation of populations of Glyceria fluitans (floating sweetgrass) from the Atlantic Islands of Britain and Ireland using AFLP analysis.
STAND 16 Grosso, A. C.; Gomes, I.; Martins, E.; Santos, L. & Teixeira, G. Germination and seedling development in Tornabenea insularis.
STAND 17 Durães, Cecília; Ennos, Richard; Gibby, Mary & Vogel, Johannes C.. High genetic diversity in the Macaronesian fern Asplenium hemionitis L.
STAND 18 Hernández, José-Carlos; Brito, Alberto; García, Nayra; Gil-Rodríguez, Mª Candelaria; Herrera, Guacimara; Cruz-Reyes, Alejandro; González-Lorenzo, Gustavo & Falcón, Jesús M. Effect of food availability and habitat on gonad development of sea urchin Diadema antillarum in the Canary Islands.
STAND 19 Hernández, José-Carlos, Brito, Alberto; Cubero, Elena; García, Nayra; Girard, Dominique; González-Lorenzo, Gustavo & Falcón, Jesús M. Measuring larval settlement of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum (eastern-Atlantic form).
STAND 20 Gioria, Margherita & Osbourne, Bruce. The impact of invasive plant species on biodiversity. The role of the soil seed bank.
Th-1 Thursday, 26 August - 08.40 to 10.40 hrs
INVASIVE SPECIES
Chair
08.40 (Keynote - K4) Wade, Max. Control and management of alien invasive plants.
09.20 Sjoegren, Erik. Introduced plants and the reduction of indigenous plant populations in the Azores Islands.
09.40 Osborne, Bruce; Hickey, Betsy & Gioria, Margherita. Gunnera invasions in Ireland.
10.00 Rumsey, Fred. Alien and introduced pteridophytes of Macaronesia – their origins, history, distribution and impact.
10.20 Meehan, John M. & Hayden, Thomas J. Range expansion and habitat associations of the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus, an introduced rodent, in Ireland.
10.40-11.00 Refreshment break
Th-2 Thursday, 26 August - 11.00 to 12.40 hrs
ISLAND ECOSYSTEMS
Chair
11.00 (Keynote - K5). Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg. Terrestrial Ecosystems on Svalbard.
11.40 Thórhallsdóttir, Thóra E. & Ægisdóttir, Hafdís H. Flora of Iceland: characteristics and history.
12.00 Ribeiro, Cláudia; Sedberry, George; Armando, Almeida; Biscoito, Manuel & Costa, Luis. Field comparison of transect, stationary point count and visual fast count methods for visual assessment of Madeira Island rocky habitats.
12.20 Palomo, Débora; Jiménez, Mª Soledad; Morales, Domingo & González-Rodríguez, Águeda Mª. Morphological and physiological studies of the invasive species Pennisetum setaceum and other Canarian native grasses under field conditions.
12.40-14.00 LUNCH BREAK
Th-3 Thursday, 26 August - 14.00 to 15.40 hrs
BIODIVERSITY
Chair
14.00 (Keynote - K6) Bolger, Thomas. Adequacy of surrogate taxa in assessing likely responses of biota to global change.
14.40 McAdam, Jim; Johnston, Bob; Flexen, Melanie & Cameron, Alastair. The use of indicator species to monitor the impact of agri-environment schemes on biodiversity in Northern Ireland.
15.00 Wallenstein, F.F.M.M.; Neto, A.I. & Alvaro, N.V. Characterization of subtidal benthic communities in the Azores – a numerical approach – methodologies for oceanic islands.
15.20 Collins, Timothy. The Clare Island Survey of 1909-1911: a multidisciplinary success.
15.40
Th-4 Thursday, 26 August - 16.00 to 18.00 hrs
POSTER SESSION 2
Biogeography - Fauna and Flora
Island Ecosystems
Biodiversity
STAND 21 Madeira, Ana M. & Faria, Bernardo F. INTERREG III B “ATLANTICO” Project (MAC/2.3/C35) - Development of a Macaronesian Biodiversity Database.
STAND 22 Costa, Graça; Madeira, Ana M. & Pontes, Tânia. Biogeography of helminth parasites of Scomber japonicus: results from Madeira and south western Atlantic waters (Brazil).
STAND 23 Díaz-Villa, T.; Tronholm, A.; Sangil, C.; Montañés, Á.; Sansón, M & Afonso-Carrillo, J. Variations in vegetative and reproductive biomass in a species of Sargassum (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) from the Canary Islands.
STAND 24 Montañés, M. Ángeles; Sansón, M.: Reyes, J.: Sangil, C.; Díaz-Villa, T. & Tronholm, A. Annual variations of some phenological parameters of Zonaria tournefortii (Dictyotales, Phaeophyta) from the analysis of drifts in the Canary Islands.
STAND 25 Raposeiro, P & Costa, A.C. Freshwater macroinvertebrate communities from the Azores.
STAND 26 López-Jurado, L.F.; Varo, N. & Merino, S. The importance of the Cape Verde islands for the conservation of the African loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) populations.
STAND 27 Landeira J.M.; Soldevilla, F.L.; Izquierdo, F.; Espinosa, J.M, & Mingorance, María d Carmen Surface swarms of Thysanopoda monacantha Ortmann, 1893 in the east coast of Tenerife (Canary Islands).
STAND 28 Landeira, J.M.; Soldevilla, F.L.; Izquierdo, F.; Mingorance, Maria del Carmen & Espinosa, J.M. Notes on spring mesozooplankton of Canary Islands: abundance and horizontal distribution.
STAND 29 Ramírez, R.; González, P.; Jaraiz, R.; Fernández, C.; Tuya, F.; Sánchez-Jerez, P.; Collado, C.; Hernández, J. & Haroun, R. Spatial distribution patterns of limpet species (Patella spp.) throughout the Canarian Archipelago (Central East Atlantic).
STAND 30 Tronholm, Ana; Díaz-Villa, Tania; Sangil, Carlos; Montañés, Ángeles; Sansón, Marta & Afonso-Carrillo, Julio. Notes on vegetative and reproductive morphology in a population of Dictyota liturata (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) from Punta del Hidalgo (Tenerife, Canary Islands).
STAND 31 Sirjacobs, Damien; Tempera, Fernando; Cardigos, F.; Gobert, S.; Lepoint, G.; Bouquegneau, Jean-Marie & Santos, R. Study of the structure, distribution and dynamics of Codium elisabethae populations in the reef ecosystem of Faial Island (Azores), use of submarine image analysis.
STAND 32 Monterroso, Óscar; Nuñez, Jorge & Riera, Rodrigo. Diversity of soft bottom macroinvertebrates from Canary Islands, Spain.
STAND 33 Elias, Rui B. & Martins, Vânia. Anthropogenic succession of Juniperus brevifolia forests in Terceira Island (Azores).
STAND 34 Almeida, Corrine do Rosário Timas. Juvenile fish assemblage at Praia Cais d´ Àlfândega – São Vicente.
STAND 35 Ingimarsdóttir, María; Ólafsson, Erling & Ólafsson Jón S. Invertebrate communities along soil temperature gradients in two geothermal areas in Iceland.
STAND 36 García, Nayra; Falcón, Jesús M.; Hernández, José-Carlos; Brito, Alberto; Lozano, Ignacio J. & Clemente, Sabrina. Relationships between the population density of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum (Philippi) and the littoral rock-substrate fish communities, with special attention to the herbivorous fishes, in the Canary Islands.
STAND 37 Falcón, Jesús M.; Hernández, José-Carlos; Brito, Alberto; García, Nayra; González-Lorenzo, Gustavo J.; Cruz, Alejandro; Herrera, Guacimara; Gil-Rodríguez, María-Candelaria; & Clemente, Sabrina. Effects of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum reduction on algae, sessile invertebrates and fish populations in the Canary Islands.
STAND 38 Gritzalis, Konstantinos C. & Karaouzas, Ioannis D. The ecological quality assessment and status in permanent streams of the Aegean Islands.
STAND 39 Lupton, Darach. The Biogeography and Conservation Biology of Spiranthes romanzoffiana.
STAND 40 Matson, R. & Kelly-Quinn, M. In-stream distribution and interactions between native Gammarus duebeni celticus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) populations and the introduced alien species Gammarus pulex, in a River Liffey headwater stream in Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
Fr-1 Friday, 27 August - 08.40 to 10.40 hrs
BIOGEOGRAPHY - FAUNA AND FLORA (1)
Chair
08.40 (Keynote- K1) Crawford, R.M.M. Oceanic Environments and their Impact on Plant Distribution.
09.20 Prud'homme van Reine, W.F.; John, D.M.; Lawson, G.W.; Kostermans, L.B.T. & Price, J.H. A new checklist of the seaweeds of the western coast of Africa and adjacent islands.
09.40 Tittley, Ian & Neto, Ana I. The marine algal flora of the mid-oceanic Azores archipelago: island isolation or Atlantic crossroads?
10.00 Leitner, Stefan; Voigt, Cornelia; Gahr, Manfred; Dietzen, Christian & Wink, Michael. Phylogeography of island canary (Serinus canaria) populations.
10.20 Ventura, M. A., Thierry, D. & Coderre, D. Biogeographic relations of insular populations (Azores and Madeira) of Chrysopidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) based on morphologic data.
10.40-11.00 Refreshment break
Fr-2 Friday, 27 August - 11.00 to 12.40 hrs
BIOGEOGRAPHY - FAUNA AND FLORA (2)
Chair
11.00 McCormack, Stephen; McCarthy, Kieran & Cullen, Paula. The biogeography of aquatic beetles on islands in the north eastern Atlantic.
11.20 Ávila, Sérgio P. Oceanic islands, rafting, geographical range and bathymetry: a neglected relationship?
11.40 Davis, Martin H. & Davis, Mary E. Ships’ sea-chests - a transport mechanism for the introduction of non-indigenous species to isolated marine ecosystems.
12.00 Visser, Marjolein; Keane, Rory ; Moran, James; Regan, Eugenie; O'Connor, Aine; Gormally, Mike & Sheehy Skeffington, Micheline. Grazing patterns on the turlough of Skealoghan.
12.20 Waldren, Steve; Kingston, Naomi; Smith, Rhian & Coxon, Pete. Biogeography of Atlantic plants in Ireland
12.40-14.0 Lunch break
Fr-3 Friday, 27 August - 14.00 to 15.40 hrs
EU FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES
Chair
14.00 (Keynote - K7) Hughes, Samantha. Application of the Water Framework Directive to Atlantic Islands.
14.40 Moran James; Gormally, Mike; O Connor, Áine; Regan, Eugenie; Sheehy Skeffington, Micheline & Visser, Marjolein. Skealoghan turlough, Co. Mayo: a case study with implications for the agri-environmental management of turloughs in the west of Ireland.
15.00
15.20
15.40
Fr-4 Friday, 27 August - 16.00 to 17.00 hrs
CLOSING SESSION
Symposium synthesis
Selection of Venue for FFAIS-6, 2006.