SECOND INTERNATIONAL COURSE

DOÑANA BIOLOGICAL RESERVE

“ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGES: INTEGRATING RESEARCH APPROACHES”

MONDAY 26 SEPTEMBER TO FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER 2011

Course Contents

Coordinators

Juan J. Negro(Assistant Director of Doñana Biological Station & Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Sevilla, Spain)

Arndt Hampe(Research Director, UMR1202 ‘Biodiversity, Genes & Communities’ (INRA), Cestas, France)

Begoña Arrizabalaga(Project management of Doñana Biological Station, Sevilla, Spain)

Lectures

Miguel AraÚjo

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN). CSIC. Madrid, Spain.

Ecological niche modelling under climate change

  1. Theory of niches and distributions
  2. Modelling niches under climate change
  3. Uncertainties and ensemble forecasting
  4. Uses of niche models
  • Practical work: Introduction to BIOMOD R (by MARÍA TRIVIÑO, MNCN)

KEITH BILDSTEIN

HawkMountain Sanctuary. Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

Climate change and raptor migration:likely effects and consequences

1. Global overview of short- and long-distance migration in birds of prey

2. How global change is likely to change the overall map of raptor migration

3. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of climate change on raptor migration

4. Distribution and abundance of birds of prey on island

5. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of climate change on island raptors

JOSÉ S. CARRIÓN

Universidad de Murcia. Spain.

A palaeoecological perspective in vegetation science

  1. Introduction to palaeoecology and palynology: concepts and methods
  2. Quaternary vegetation history in the MediterraneanBasin and the Iberian Peninsula
  3. Patterns of woody plant extinctions through the past 5 Myr
  4. Confronting the palaeorecord with the ‘potential natural vegetation’ concept

ISABELLE CHUINE

Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE). CNRS. Montpellier, France.

A process-based approach to the niche

  1. How to study phenology: time series, experiments, citizen science programmes
  2. What is environmental determinism? Unanswered questions and challenges from recent climate change
  3. How to model phenological events: some theory regarding plants and insects
  4. Why does phenology drive species distribution?
  5. Modeling species distributions: correlative, process-based, and hybrid models
  6. Do projections of different model types and climate scenarios converge?
  7. A glimpse at modeling niche evolution in a climate change context
  8. New developments in species distribution models: modeling dispersal and the evolution of genetic traits
  • Practical work: Computer-based adjustment of a phenological model and development of predictions

Arndt Hampe

UMR1202 ‘Biodiversité, Gènes & Communautés’ (BIOGECO). INRA. Cestas, France.

Forests of the past: a window to future changes

  1. A brief overview of past climate changes and species’ responses
  2. Introduction to plant phylogeography
  3. Tree phylogeography in the Mediterranean: from Neogene to Holocene
  4. Population dynamics, evolution and conservation of trees under modern climate change

GEORG HOFFMANN

Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU). Utrecht Universiteit. The Netherlands.

Climate physics, climate history and climate prediction

  1. Introduction into the principles of physical processes controlling the climate on Earth; energy balance of the planet (greenhouse gases, clouds, convection);most important climate oscillations (ENSO, Monsoon, NAO).
  2. Climate from the deep past (last 350 million years) to the last 1000 years;proxies (deep sea sediments, ice cores, speleothems);forcing factors (continental distribution, volcanoes, Milankovitch cycles, solar activity, greenhouse gases);impacts (mass extinctions, historical events).
  3. Climate models: How do they work? The conceptual ideas of the IPCC report; the central importance of the concept of climate sensitivity; some conclusion on how climate will change the next 100 years; uncertainties in predictions; some impacts (sea level rise, sea ice retreat).

MIGUEL TEJEDO

Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD). CSIC. Sevilla. Spain.

The role of thermal physiology to forecast the impacts of climate change in ectotherms.

  1. Temperature and ecological performance in ectotherms
  2. Mechanistic assessment of vulnerability to global warming. The role of macrophysiology
  3. Geographical variation in vulnerability. Can tropical ectotherms take the heat?
  • Practical work: Thermal tolerance estimates in amphibian tadpoles (by HELDER DUARTE& MIGUEL TEJEDO, EBD)

Fernando Valladares

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN). CSIC. Madrid, Spain.

Global change versus climate change in Mediterranean ecosystems

  1. Interaction among factors
  2. Response of key plant species to climate change
  3. What can we do? Mitigation, ecological restoration,…
  • Practical work: Measurement of ecophysiological parameters in the field

COURSE PROGRAMME 2011

Monday, September 26
12:00 - 12:30 / ARRIVAL AT SEVILLA (ESTACIÓN BIOLÓGICA DE DOÑANA)
12:30 - 14:00 / BUS TRANSFER FROM SEVILLA TO THE RESERVA BIOLOGICA DE DOÑANA (RBD)
14:00 - 15:00 / LUNCH (RBD)
16:00 - 19:00 / STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
20:30 - 21:30 / DINNER (RBD)
Tuesday, September 27
09:00 - 09:30 / BREAKFAST (RBD)
09:30 - 11:30 / Dr. HOFFMANN LECTURE
11:30 - 12:00 / COFFEE BREAK
12.00 - 14.00 / Dr. HOFFMANN LECTURE
14:00 -15:00 / LUNCH (RBD)
17:30 - 19:30 / Dr. HOFFMANN PRACTICAL LESSONS
20:30 - 21:30 / DINNER (RBD)
Wednesday, September 28
09:00 - 09:30 / BREAKFAST (RBD)
09:30 - 11:30 / Dr. CARRION LECTURE
11:30 - 12:00 / COFFEE BREAK
12.00 - 14.00 / Dr. CARRION LECTURE
14:00 -15:00 / LUNCH (RBD)
17:30 - 19:30 / VISIT TO DOÑANANATIONAL PARK
20:30 - 21:30 / DINNER (RBD)
Thursday, September 29
09:00 - 09:30 / BREAKFAST (RBD)
09:30 - 11:30 / Dr. ARNDT LECTURE
11:30 - 12:00 / COFFEE BREAK
12.00 - 14.00 / Dr. ARNDT LECTURE
14:00 -15:00 / LUNCH (RBD)
17:30 - 19:30 / FIELD TRIP
20:30 - 21:30 / DINNER (RBD)
Friday, September 30
09:00 - 09:30 / BREAKFAST (RBD)
09:30 - 11:30 / Dra. CHUINE LECTURE
11:30 - 12:00 / COFFEE BREAK
12.00 - 14.00 / Dra. CHUINE LECTURE
14:00 -15:00 / LUNCH (RBD)
17:30 - 19:30 / Dra. CHUINE PRACTICAL LESSONS
20:30 - 21:30 / DINNER (RBD)
Saturday, October 1. FREE DAY.
09:00 - 09:30 / BREAKFAST (RBD)
09:30 - 11:30 / OPTIONAL: BUS TRANSFER FROM RBD TO SEVILLA
14:00 -15:00 / FOR THOSE WHO DECIDE TO STAY: LUNCH (RBD)
20:30 - 21:30 / DINNER (RBD)
Sunday, October 2. FREE DAY.
09:00 - 09:30 / BREAKFAST (RBD)
14:00 -15:00 / LUNCH (RBD)
19:00 - 20:30 / BUS TRANSFER FROM SEVILLA TO RBD.
20:30 - 21:30 / DINNER (RBD)
Monday, October 3.
09:00 - 09:30 / BREAKFAST (RBD)
09:30 - 11:30 / Dr. BILDSTEIN LECTURE
11:30 - 12:00 / COFFEE BREAK
12.00 - 14.00 / Dr. BILDSTEIN LECTURE
14:00 -15:00 / LUNCH (RBD)
17:30 - 19:30 / FIELD TRIP (BIRD RINGING STATION IN MANECORRO)
20:30 - 21:30 / DINNER (RBD)
Tuesday, October 4.
09:00 - 09:30 / BREAKFAST (RBD)
11:00 - 12:30 / Dr. TEJEDO LECTURE
12:30 - 12:45 / COFFEE BREAK
12:45-14:00 / Dr. TEJEDO LECTURE
14:00 -15:00 / LUNCH (RBD)
16:00 - 20:00 / Dr. TEJEDO PRACTICAL LESSONS
20:30 - 21:30 / DINNER (RBD)
Wednesday, October 5.
09:00 - 09:30 / BREAKFAST (RBD)
09:30 - 11:30 / Dr. VALLADARES LECTURE
11:30 - 12:00 / COFFEE BREAK
12.00 - 14.00 / Dr. VALLADARES LECTURE
14:00 -15:00 / LUNCH (RBD)
17:30 - 19:30 / Dr. VALLADARES PRACTICAL LESSONS
20:30 - 21:30 / DINNER (RBD)
Thursday, October 6.
09:00 - 09:30 / BREAKFAST (RBD)
09:30 - 11:30 / Dr. ARAUJO LECTURE
11:30 - 12:00 / COFFEE BREAK
12:00 -14:00 / Dr. ARAUJO LECTURE
14:00 -15:00 / LUNCH (RBD)
16:30 - 19:30 / MARÍA TRIVIÑO PRACTICAL LESSONS
20:30 - 21:30 / DINNER (RBD)
Friday, October 7.
09:00 - 09:30 / BREAKFAST (RBD)
09:30 - 11:00 / CONCLUSIONS AND EVALUATIONS
11:30 - 13:00 / END OF THE COURSE. BUS TRANSFER FROM RBD TO SEVILLA

Reserva Biológica de Doñana

Palacio de Doñana

21760 Matalascañas, Huelva