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  GENERAL ASPECTS
1. Economics of restoration / Ecosystem services and their economic evaluation
Thursday, 24.8, 10:30-16:40, Alfried-Krupp-College (lecture hall)

Mareike Conrad
: Development of a procedure for the evaluation of the cost-benefit ratio of nature conservation and landscape management measures

Lionel Prigent: Restoration to the maritime charater of Mont-Saint-Michel : an economic valuation
Michael Trepel: Is peatland rehabilitation a cost-effective measure for water quality improvement?
Ralf Döring: Restoration as investment in natural capital - The Greifswalder sustainability theory and practical implications for restoration
Michael Rühs: Economic evaluation of restoration measures in coastal areas and flood plains
Birgit Litterski: Nature conservation in agricultural landscapes of NE Germany
Martin Wassen: Land use changes in the western Netherlands: shifts in importance of ecosystem services and implications for governance strategies for restoration
Achim Schäfer: Restoration of peatlands with restorative economic instruments
Marina Pintar: Energy needed to restore overgrown abandoned land
Raymond Schrijver: Restoring rural incomes and conserving Europe`s countryside
2. Ethical and socio-cultural aspects of restoration 
Tuesday, 22.5, 11:50-16:40, AudiMax (room 7)

Wiebke Bebermeier
: Regulation vs. Renaturation: the paradigm shift in Hydraulic Engineering
Allegra Newman: A critical assessment of cultural inclusiveness in ecological restoration projects in North America
Angela Weil: Ideas of man (Menschenbilder) in restoration ecology
Richard Scott: Parables for a Changing World: The Accidental Rainforest, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and lessons from the street corner
Matthias Gross: Welcoming the Unwanted: The Deliberate Inclusion of Surprising Elements in Ecological Restoration
Narayan R. Desai: Restore what? Why? How?: In Search of Cultural Answers.

3. Planning, managing, and monitoring of restoration projects:
Concepts and organisational framework
Tuesday, 22.8, 17:20 - 18:40, AudiMax (room 7)

Concepts & Planning
Marijn Nijssen: Development of a decision support system for nature restoration projects: from trial-and-error to knowledge based nature management
Hein van Bohemen: ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING WORKS, Ecosystem thinking and the role of ecological infrastructures
Constanze Buhk: Plant species diversity in cultural landscapes in Central Europe: developing effective conservation tools

Planning & Management   
Jacques Thibault: Peatland restoration policy of New Brunswick, Canada


Wednesday, 23.8, 9:50-13:30, Philology (Seminar room)   

Anne Tolvanen: Restoration of peatlands in northern Finland – impacts on hydrology, soil processes and biodiversity
Roos den Uyl: Adaptive management for sustainable development of Dutch peatlands
Philip D. Putwain and Gill M. Haynes: Restoration of ecological habitats to mitigate the effects of airport runway development

Assessment & Monitoring   
Wiktor Kotowski: Assessing restoration prospects of communities from functional traits of constituent species: a comparative study in riparian systems
Birgit Felinks: Implementation of a monitoring program for a lignite mining site in Eastern Germany
Vera Luthardt: Monitoring and success control: different instruments for the analysis of measures for the rewetting of mires
Michael Manthey: The potentials of the vegetation form concept for restoration projects
Ingo Koska: Interpretation of monitoring data from permanent vegetation plots with bioindication ; the example of the rewetted Grenztalmoor; (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
Alexander Van Braeckel: Design of Flood Control Areas: Conflict between nature development planning and potentials.A case study in the Scheldt estuary (Belgium)
ies: a comparative study in riparian systems

4. Unifying concepts in restoration ecology (Restoration theory) 
Friday, 25.8, 8:30-11:50,  AudiMax (room 7)

Stefan Halle: Translating ecological restoration into basic ecology – a guided tour
Francisco García Novo: Succession steering: a restoration strategy for vegetation
Armin Bischoff:  The choice of seed provenance in restoration approaches
Young D. Choi: Redevelopment of black oak (Quercus velutina) savanna in abandoned sand mine in
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore: A trajectory for restoration 
Todd A. Aschenbach: A tale of two ecosystems: Comparing community assembly approaches to restoration from a prairie restoration in Kansas, USA and a pine savannah restoration in South Carolina, USA.
Jelte van Andel: On biodiversity, valuation and the nature of ecological value
Vicky M. Temperton: What have biodiviersity-ecosystem functioing experiments and restoration got to tell each other?
5. Restoring biodiversity in semi-natural landscapes (ecosystem and population level) 
     
     5A: Restoration of biodiversity after land use abandonment
     Friday, 25.8, 8:30-11:50, Philology (seminar room)

Hana Poková: Regional seed mixtures in the Czech Republic
T. Szili-Kovács: Organic carbon amendment has changed soil N availability and microbial activity in ex-arable fields aimed to restore
Jose Ramon Guzman Alvarez: Natural restoration as a tool to manage olive old fields
Josef Müller: Restoration of wet meadow communities after sustained abandonment
Paulina Dzierza: Vegetation change in the first year after removing shrubs and reintroducing mowing management on a soligenous fen

Clare Tenner-Trivedi: The Millennium Seed Bank Project, Ecological Restoration and Global Change
will selbst in 3 oder 12, guck mal wo platz ist

     5B: Large- scale grazing: a tool of landscape and ecosystem restoration

     Thursday, 24.8, 10:30-16:40, AudiMax (room 7)

W.A. Ozinga: Possibilities and constraints of extensive grazing to restore plant diversity in open European landscapes
Vitalie Gulca: A review of land use problems and actors related to wild and domestic herbivores in Moldova during the past 200 years
A.M. Kooijman: Grazing in dune grasslands with different soil fertility 5B
Angelika Schwabe: Restoration of NATURA 2000 habitats: the case of grazed inland sand ecosystems
Karin Süss: Grazing with ruminants (sheep) and non-ruminants (donkeys) as a tool for the restoration of threatened sand ecosystems?
Bettina Burkart: Large- scale grazing: experiences in combining domestic and wild animals
Maarten Mouissie: Dispersal of propagules by large herbivores: a bottleneck for biodiversity increase?
Carsten Eichberg: Large herbivores as endozoochorous dispersal vectors: the difference between dispersal potential and seedling establishment in inland sand ecosystems
Antonia Wanner: Seed banks of grazed and abandoned coastal grasslands in Estonia: Potential source for restoration?
Joachim Schrautzer: Development potentials  for the biocoenosis in a river valley depending on large-scale grazing and rewetting
Harald Schaich: Floodplain restoration and extensive grazing in Luxemburg – aims, concept and first results of an interdisciplinary research project in the Syr valley
Gerd Rosenthal: Large- scale grazing: a tool of landscape and ecosystem restoration?

6. Restoration policy and legislature: Ecological restoration in perspective of Natura 2000
Wednesday, 23.8, 23.8, 9:50-12:30,  Alfried-Krupp-College (library)

Karina Kitnaes:
Management and restoration of Natura 2OOO sites through an integrated river basin management plan for the Dovine river basin in Lithuania
Cecília Melo: Mapping as an important tool for Natura 2000 managment and conservation: a case study of Santa Barbara Volcano (Azores).
Kris Decleer:  Objectives of conservation and restoration of Natura 2000 habitats in Flanders, Belgium
Rob J.J. Hendriks: Ecological Restoration in the Netherlands: policy aspects and knowledge management
Camiel Aggenbach: Environmental bottlenecks and restoration potential of habitats in the Dutch Natura 2000 network
Geert Raeymaekers: Can we speak of a European Restoration Policy?

7. Synergies and integrative concepts 
Friday, 8:30-11:50,  AudiMax (room 7)

Matthias Harnisch: Restoration of floodplain-meadows along the northern Upper Rhine
Erika van den Bergh: The most desirable scenario for the Schelde estuary: Linking measures for ecological rehabilitation and safety against storm surges
Sander Jacobs: Combining safety aspects and ecological functioning in the Scheldt Estuary: the first results.
Peter C. van der Molen: "Keent: breaking new ground. Combining safety, flood protection, nature restoration and human involvement. Combining safety, flood protection, nature restoration and human involvement."
Achille Assogbadjo: Abiotic factors influencing ecological diversity and productivity of baobab tree (Adansonia digitata L.): consequence for the species restoration in Benin.
Marcus J. Collier: The National Wetlands Wilderness Park – developing a strategy for cutaway peatland afteruse in Ireland
Albert Corporaal: Options for integrating farming and nature conservation in Europe

SPECIAL ECOSYSTEMS
8. Coastal ecosystems: salt meadows, marshes, dunes 
   8A: Beaches, driftlines and dunes - maintenance and support of natural dynamics and     biodiversity
   Tuesday, 22.8, 11:50-18:40, AudiMax (room 5)


Eva Remke: Grass encroachment in the Baltic Sea – a large spatial scale and descriptive study
Marc van Til: Rapid improvement of grey dunes after shallow sod cutting in the Amsterdam Water supply Dunes
Hans Esselink: Cascading effects of nitrogen deposition in coastal dunes: a comparative study on insects and Red-backed Shrikes between intact and degraded dunes
Raquel P. Fernández Lo Faso: Restoration of an ancient dune system favouring landscape per-ception
Patrick Le Gouee: Origin and ecological significance of silty soils of Hatainville dune slacks (Manche, France)
Konjev Desender: Ground beetles as ‘early warning-indicators’ in restored salt marshes and dune slacks
Jean-Pierre Maelfait: Spider colonisation and source-sink effects in newly developed dunes and dikes along the river Ijzer estuary
Steven Verbeek: Towards dynamic barrier islands in the Wadden Sea.
E.J. Lammerts: Successful dune restoration : a matter of scales !!


     8B: Restoration of salt marshes and brackish coastal communities
      Wednesday, 23.8, 9:50-13:30, Philology (lecture hall)

Suzan Kholeif: Palynological Study of Mangrove Sediments in the Hamata Area, Red Sea Coast, Egypt: Vegetation and Restoration Overview
Marilou B. Montemayor: Water table and moisture content behaviour of an exploited bog contaminated with seawater and the establishment of Juncus balticus
Stefan Seiberling: Restoration of coastal brackish grassland vegetation in the non-tidal Baltic Sea
Armel Dausse: Can salt marsh functions be restored in a polder with limited tidal flooding?
Detlev Metzing: Salt marsh succession in clay pits: first results of a monitoring project
Angus Garbut: Coastal realignment and salt marsh restoration in the UK
Marika Kose: Restoration of 1OOO ha of coastal meadows in SE Estonia Häädemeeste
Martin Stock: Restoration success and perspectives for monitoring obligations according to FFH and WFD in salt marshes on the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein

9. Rivers, lakes and other inland waters 
Tuesday, 22.8,11:50-18:40, Philology (lecture hall)

Rivers and floodplains
Joerg Weise: Limiting factors in wetland restoration in intensively used floodplains
Susanne Winter: Vegetation dynamic in a floodplain forest after stream course correction, groundwater withdrawal and conversion of forestry management
Francisco A. Comín: Principles and strategies for the restoration of floodplains in the Middle Ebro River (NE Spain)
Susanna Hakobyan: Decrease of Industrial Sewer Negative Impact on Hrazdan River (Armenia): Cooperation Success between International Organization, National NGO and Business Sector
Nadiya V. Boyko: Methodological Techniques of Recovery Strategy for the Ukrainian-Hungarian Floodable Ecosystems Exposed to Human-Induced Transformation (Tysza River Basin in Bereg Region)
Sandra Sweeney: Using place names to reconstruct former floodplain connectivity in the Morava River
Kati Vogt: Temporal variation and species composition of hydrochorous seed transport: environmental factors vs. species traits
E.C.H.E.T. Lucassen: Causes for the decline of zinc-flora in floodplain grasslands along the river Geul (the Netherlands): possibilities for restoration
Tobias. W. Donath: Large-scale restoration of flood-meadows by diaspore transfer with plant material
Wilco Verberk: The importance of landscape heterogeneity for animal diversity in restoration management

Lakes and lagoons
E. Brouwer: Degraded peat sediments in lakes: the problem of accumulated sulphur, ammonium and bicarbonate
Jaya Krushna Panigrahi: Enhanced fish landing consequent to ecorestoration measures - A case study of Chilika Lake

10. Peatlands 
     10A: Sphagnum bog restoration for biodiversity
     Tuesday, 22.8, 11:50-18:40, Alfried-Krupp-College (lecture hall)

Catherine Farrell: Rehabilitation of an industraial peat-production landscape in the west of Ireland
Kaisu Aapala: Ten years of vegetation succession after restoration of boreal spruce mire
Thomas J. Malterer: Large-scale restoration of a highly disturbed poor fen/bog in Northeastern Minnesota, USA
Francois Quinty: The Ste-Marguerite-Marie peatland restoration project
Petra Konvalinkova: Spontaneous revegetation of harvested peatlands: a way of restoration?
Line Rochefort: A paludified approach to peatland restoration: several years of monitoring
Roxane Andersen: The physicochemical and microbiological status of a restored bog in Canada: identification of relevant criteria to monitor success
Natacha Fontaine: vegetation diversity and restoration of peatland pools
Gert-Jan van Duinen: Nutrient-enrichment, habitat homogeneity, and fragmentation limit the restoration of the aquatic invertebrate diversity of raised bogs
Mati Ilomets: Plant cover and hydrology of drained margin of a bog - proposals for restoration
Russell Anderson: Restoration of bogs altered by afforestation in Britain - practical activity and new research results
Romas Pakalnis: Sustainable development possibilities in the Aukštumala Nature Reserve (Lithuania)
Mara Pakalne: Raised bog studies and monitoring of the management actions in the LIFE project "Mires" in Latvia
Mati Ilomets: Spontaneous Sphagnum-cover re-establishment on abandoned peat-fields in Estonia – success and failure


     10B: Fen restoration for biodiversity
     Thursday, 24.8, 10:30-16:40, Philology (lecture hall)

Franziska Tanneberger: The West-Pomeranian population of the Aquatic warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola): Habitat change and restoration potential
Ab P. Grootjans: Can we restore travertine forming spring mires in Poland?
Rolf Kemmers: Restoration prospects of calcareous spring mires in Slovakia
Andre Jansen: Prospects for hydrological restoration of a fen meadow reserve in the Slovakian lowlands
J. M. Schouwenaars: Land subsidence in drained peatlands and their long term perpectives for ecological restoration
Leonid Rasran: Impact of seed- and microsite-limitation on species diversity in fen grasslands
Martha D. Graf: The regeneration niche of fen bryophytes: a greenhouse experiment
Raimund Kesel: Effects of groundwater level management and flooding events on riparian fen restoration
Karsten Schulz: Vegetation development and nutrient dynamics in the Peene valley.
Agata Klimkowska:    A meta-analysis of alternative techniques to restore degraded fen meadows.
Tiemo Timmermann: Restoring peat forming vegetation by flooding of species-poor fen grasslands: does it work?
B.P. van de Riet: Rewetting of peat meadows: opportunities and bottlenecks for nature restoration
Mohssine El Kahloun: Molinia encroachment

     Friday, 25.8, 8:30-11:50, Alfried-Krupp-Kolleg (lecture hall)

Claus Helweg Ovesen: Peatland restoration in NW-Zealand, results and problems
Bart Verhagen: Short and long term N and P monitoring in aboveground biomass of wetland vegetations: useful parameters to evaluate conservation measures.
Agata Klimkowska: Restoration of semi-natural meadows on a severely degraded fen,  a case study from Poland
Jan Ripka: Nutrient limitation and seed bank depletion during degradation of calcareous fen meadows in Slovakia
Leslaw Wolejko: Coping with abandonment in little disturbed valley systems
J.M. Sarneel: Factors controlling mesotrophic floating fen succession in shallow ponds
Kirsten Schlange: Monitoring nutrient retention in a rewetted fen
Monika Szewczyk: Changes in the vegetation development of Narew National Park (Poland) in the second half of the twentieth century



     10C: Restoring peatlands for environmental regulation
     Tuesday, 22.8, 17:20-18:40,
Alfried-Krupp-Kolleg (library)

Sabine Jordan: Phosphorus binding forms in minerotrophic peat soils influenced by degree of peat decomposition
Lars Lundin: Wetland environment after rewetting peat cutover areas
Rebekka R.E. Artz: Does the regeneration of cut-over peatlands restore below-ground functions and diversity?
Andreas Gattinger: Bacterial and archaeal communities in five European peatlands: Influence of plant cover and restoration stage

      Wednesday, 23.8, 9:50-11:10, AudiMax (room 7)

Katalin Margóczi: Wetland restoration in Hungary, an overview and evaluation



    10D: Restoring peatlands for sustainable productive use
     Wednesday, 23.8, 9:50-13:30, AudiMax (room 5)

Greta Gaudig: Sphagnum growth and its perspectives for Sphagnum farming on rewetted bogs in north-western Germany
Dörte Kamermann: With Sphagnum farming to new possibilities in bog restoration in north-western Germany – experiments and first experiences
Claudia St-Arnaud:  Sphagnum culture in Canada : are climatic variability and Sphagnum species important?
Mireille Bellemare: The development of a cloudberry culture in Canada

Wendelin Wichtmann: Alternative managment options for degraded fens- use of biomass from rewettet peatlands
Alexandra Barthelmes: Environmental friendly production of Alder wood on degraded fen peatland
Wiktor Kotowski: Multifunctional use of peatlands? Seeking alliances for ecological restoration in Poland

Martin Schumann: Peatland degradation and restoration on the Tibetan Plateau (China)



     10F: Peatland restoration in the tropics
     Thursday, 24.8, 12:30-16:40, Philology (seminar room)
   
Henk Wosten: Interdependencies between hydrology and ecology in tropical peatlands
Jyrki Jauhiainen: Effect of hydrological restoration on soil carbon fluxes at degraded tropical peat
Henk Ritzema: Restoring water management functions in degraded tropical peatlands
Marcel Silvius: The Central Kalimantan Peatlands Project; combining rural development with peatland restoration and conservation
Herbert Diemont: Strategies for funding peatland restoration in Indonesia
H.-D. Viktor Boehm: Carbon Storage in the Northern Sebangau Area between Tangkiling and Kasongan, Central Kalimantan
W.H. Wan Sulaiman: Rehabilitation of large-scale sago plantings on deep peat.
Susan Page: Multi-temporal satellite observations of burnt area as a result of peat burning in Indonesia: Applications for the modelling of post-fire vegetation dynamics
Adi Jaya: Biomass and Carbon of Tropical Peat Swamp Forest under Various Land Cover Conditions

   Friday, 25.8, 8:30-11:50, Alfried-Krupp-Kolleg (library)

Jack O. Rieley: Wise use of tropical peatlands: is restoration necessary and feasible?
Bostang Radjagukguk: Impacts of peatland reclamation for agriculture on soil properties and the environment
Andreas Langner: Remote sensing as a tool for land use change, fire and illegal logging monitoring and peatland restoration planning in southeast Asia
Laura  J. D’Arcy: Degradation and restoration in tropical peat swamp forests, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Suwido H. Limin: Effectiveness of dams constructed to raise water in tropical peatland
M. Stahlhut: Restoration of Tropical Peatlands - Data requirements and availability
Y. Sulistiyanto: Nutrient budget for a tropical peat swamp ecosystem in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia



     Session 1OG: Restoration of Peatland Soils for Agricultural Use
     Wednesday, 23.8, 11:50-13:30, Audimax (room 7)

Jan J.H. van den Akker: Subsidence of agricultural peat soils in the Netherlands and ways of conservation
Lech Szajdak: Impact of secondary transformation of peat muck soils on the chemical properties soil’s organic matter and the content of chemical compounds in ground water
Mariusz Kulik: The effect of grassland utilization way on the species composition of sward and physicochemical proprieties of peat–muck soils
Ryszard Oleszczuk: The role of vegetation type in protection of peat soils used in agriculture
Lech Szajdak: Content of indole-3-acetic acid in different kinds of peat and sapropel

11. Forest restoration
Thursday,24.8, 10:30-16:40, Alfried-Krupp-Kolleg (library)

Eduardo H. Ditt: Legislation to protect Atlantic Forest landscapes in Southeastern Brazil: incentives, opportunities and obstacles
Jeroen P. Groenendijk: Towards recovery of dry Andean forest in Colombia: An onset to accelerated natural succession
Almut Spangenberg: Palaeopalynological references for forest management and restoration
Daria Kreyer: The role of short-lived tree species within natural forest restoration in Central Europe

Raimund Kesel: Restoration of Mediterranean Quercus ilex woodland in wildfire areas of Pinus macchia with the bioactivation technology of ReviTec® - Results from the MedOak-Bendinat project at Majorca/Spain
Nassima Yahi: Plant succession and ecological restoration : a case study of cedar forests in Algeria
Martin Schnittler: Proportion and spatial distribution of sexes in Populus euphratica stands from the Tarim basin, western China.

Angie Ying-Sim Ng: Nitrogen fixation in native woody legumes and their use for forest restoration in Hong Kong, China
Ida M.Y. Yu: Enriching the floristic diversity under exotic plantations in Hong Kong, China
Seyed Maziar Razavi: Pollution of soil and vegetation by reforestation of exotic conifers in Pilambera, North of Iran
Seyed Mehdi Alizadeh: Damaging of seedlings and its effects on forest natural restoration
Eslam Zolfeghari: Management of regeneration around dead trees and help to forest restoration, Caspian beech forest, north of Iran

12. Semi deserts, dry grasslands and heaths (incl. Restoration to counteract desertification) 
     12A: Restoration of dry grasslands and heaths
      Tuesday, 22.8, 11:50, Philology (lecture hall)

Bryan Foster: Effects of tallgrass prairie restoration and accelerated succession on plant diversity and ecosystem function
Ulf Freisinger: Grassland Management and its Impacts on Nutrient Dynamics in South-western Germany
Kathrin Kiehl: Vegetation succession in newly created calcareous grasslands on ex-arable land in relation to nutrient availability
Mike Le Duc: Plant species-specific responses to management for Pteridium aquilinum control
Veronica Sărăţeanu: Aspects concerning invasive plants impact on western Romanian grasslands. 
Marek Sammul: Restoration of wooded meadows – Estonian experience
Jūratė Sendžikaitė: An extensive use of sown meadows as a tool for restoration of biological diversity
Suzanne Dreier: Vegetation and arthropods in hay meadows under ecological compensation treatment on the Swiss Plateau
Friso van der Zee: Restoration of grasslands on airports in relation to the risk of aircraft bird strikes
Herbert Diemont: Options for management and restoration of  heathlands in Europe
Mary H. Losvik: A traditional way to establish new hay meadows.
Thierry Dutoit: Ecological restoration of a Mediterranean dry grassland  
Elise Buisson: Re-introducing native perennial species: a multi-factorial experiment
Michael Jeschke: Diversity of vascular plants and cryptogams in ancient and newly created calcareous grasslands



     12B: Restoration to counteract desertification
     Wednesday, 23.8, 9:50-13:30, Alfried-Krupp-Kolleg (lecture hall)

Siegmar-W. Breckle: Phytomelioration of saline soils, example Aral Sea
Walter Wucherer: Suitability of Haloxylon aphyllum for restoration of salt soils in Middle Asia
Til Dieterich: Regeneration potential of fallow fields in the southern virgin land zone in Kazakhstan
Nurbay Abdusalih: The ecology of wetlands under arid climate conditions
Niels Thevs: Tugai forests at the Tarim middle reaches, Xinjiang, China – their ecology, conservation, and restoration
Huang Peiyou: Status of degradation and restoration of Tugai forests of China
Sophia Etzold: Restoration of Quartz Fields in the Knersvlakte / South Africa - A Chellenge in Space and Time
Hartmut Koehler: Application of ReviTec®, a restoration technology based on ecological knowledge
Lulseged Tamene: Land-use planning based spatial scenarios to evaluate the soil loss reduction potential of different management options

13. Large-scale restoration and nature development: abandoned agricultural, mining, industrial, and military areas 
   Thursday, 24.8, 10:30-16:40, AudiMax (room 5)

Dragana Drazic:
Open-cast coal mining: from destruction to art

Carolina Martínez-Ruiz: Factors affecting successional change on uranium mine wastes: insights for ecological restoration
Karel Prach: Does spontaneous succession lead towards target vegetation in abandoned fields? A survey across Europe
Götz Heinrich Loos: Alien plants as indicators of landuse dynamics in the Old Industrial Region Ruhrgebiet (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Josu González-Alday: Natural colonization over two first years of revegetation after hydroseeding on coal mining spoils
Jenica Hanganu: Challenge  for  ecological  reconstruction of  the largest  agricultural polder in the Danube Delta
Anita Kirmer: Influence of regional species pools and functional traits in colonisation processes
Mareike Güth: Colonization of post-mining landscapes of Lower Lusatia by Labidura riparia (Insecta: Dermaptera)- an approach using molecular genetic methods
A. N. Singh: Comparative effect of legume and non-leguminous plantations on coal mine spoil in a dry tropical region, India
Hartmut Koehler: Research over 20 years of succession as a basis for restoration
Karel Tajovsky: Development of soil, soil biota and above-ground vegetation at post mining sites under different afforestation management
Barbra A. Harvie: Post-industrial waste or saviour of biodiversity?

   Friday, 25.8, 8:30-10:50, Philology (lecture hall)

Alena Lukesova:
  A role of soil algae and cyanobacteria on dumps after coal mining

U. Nocker: Assessment of biodiversity and the dynamic of species composition and landscape structure in successional highly dynamic systems
Michael Elmer: Succession and diversity of soil fauna in open cast coal mining areas: afforestation with different oak species vs. spontaneous succession
14. Restoration and climate change
Tuesday, 22.8,11:50-16:40, Alfried-Krupp-Kolleg (library)

Elve Lode: Climate change effects in the bog – Perspectives for the long-term conservation or restoration?
Sanna Kivimaki: Carbon sink function of sedge and Sphagnum patches in a restored cut-away peatland: Increased functional diversity leads to higher production
Lena Ström: Greenhouse gas emissions from a constructed wetland in southern Sweden
Jacinthe Letendre: CO2 exchange, hydrological conditions and spectral reflectance of bog vegetation communities
Stephan Glatzel: The Pietzmoor bog in NW Germany – Biogeochemical constraints for successful restoration
Jürgen Augustin: Greenhouse gas release and global warming potential during and after reflooding of a degraded fen site in the Peene River Valley, Northeast Germany.
Annette Freibauer: Long-term effects of fen restoration on N2O and CH4 fluxes
Lindsey Bergmann: Long-term effects of fen restoration on CO2-exchange – Donauried, southern Germany
Matthias Drösler: EU-peatlands – an overview of current trace gas fluxes

   
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