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Program
The conference will include oral presentations, poster presentations, post congress tours and excursion.
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Date |
Time |
Activity |
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| Sun, Sept 14 | 16.00 | Board meeting | |||
| 18.00-21.00 | Welcome Party & Registration (Inauguration hall) | ||||
| 18.00 | Meeting of the Collection Curators (Library at the IWJ) | ||||
| Mon, Sept 15 | 08.00-08.30 | Registration | |||
| 08.30-09.00 | Opening | ||||
| "Mammals in alpine environments" | |||||
| 09.00-10.00 | Plenary lecture: K. Bauer & F. Spitzenberger (Museum of Natural History Vienna): Post-glacial change of the mammal fauna of the Eastern Alps | ||||
| 10.00-10.20 | S.E. Hammer: Cytochrome b Phylogeography of Chamois (Rupicapra spp.): Population Contractions, Expansions and Hybridizations characterize the Diversification of the Genus | ||||
| 10.20-10.40 | F. Suchentrunk: Gene flow in Alpine and non-Alpine Red deer (Cervus elaphus) in eastern Austria: a matter of habitat connectivity? | ||||
| 10.40-11.10 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11.10-11.30 | J. Kirschning: Population genetics of the Wild boar in Europe | ||||
| 11.30-11.50 | A.C. Risch: Large herbivores in Yellowstone National Park: Interactions between ecosystem processes, wolves and climate | ||||
| 11.50-12.10 | S. Baskaya: Population Status and Principal Threats for Large Carnivores in alpine areas of Turkey | ||||
| 12.10-12.30 | G. Rauer: Bears in central Austria are facing a second extinction | ||||
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch Break | ||||
| 14.00-14.20 | S. Campell: Summer and winter home ranges of Alpine chamois Rupicapra r. rupicapra in central alpine habitats – Il Fuorn and Val Trupchun in the Swiss National Park as exemplary study areas | ||||
| 14.20-14.40 | L. Corlatti: Sex-age structure of a chamois Rupicapra rupicapra rupicapra (Linnaeus 1758) population in the Italian Alps | ||||
| 14.40-15.00 | S. Gupta: Seasonal distribution and habitat preference of Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) | ||||
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 15.30-15.50 | M. Schütz: Creation and maintenance of favored grazing sites by Red deer in grasslands of the Swiss National Park | ||||
| 15.50-16.10 | A. Duscher: The effects of supplementary feeding in winter on the spatial distribution and activity patterns of female Red deer | ||||
| 16.20 | General Meeting of DGS members | ||||
| 19.30 | Social event (Viennese tavern) | ||||
| Tue, Sept 16 | "Reproductive strategies" | ||||
| 09.00-10.00 | Plenary lecture: M. Apollonio (Università degli Studi Sassari, Italy): Reproductive strategies in ungulates | ||||
| 10.00-10.20 | S. Ciuti: How hard it can be to become a successful territorial buck in a Fallow deer (Dama dama) Lek: The story told from the antler point of view | ||||
| 10.20-10.40 | H. Spaedtke: Movement patterns and seasonal home range overlaps as an indicator of mating strategies in male and female Brown bears (Ursus arctos) | ||||
| 10.40-11.10 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11.10-11.30 | A. Mess: Reproductive strategies as key to the evolution of hystricognath Rodentia | ||||
| 11.30-11.50 | E. Millesi: Reproductive success and hibernation patterns in Common hamsters | ||||
| 11.50-12.10 | T.G. Valencak: Cold exposure during reproduction: boon or bane? | ||||
| 12.10-12.30 | T. Ruf: From capital to income breeding: Seasonal changes in lactation energetics in the European hare (Lepus europaeus) | ||||
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch Break | ||||
| 14.00-14.20 | S. Smith: Mother’s curse effect in a captive breeding program for an endangered Australian marsupial may reduce population viability | ||||
| 14.20-14.40 | K.A. Witzenberger: Don’t get the wrong cat by the tail: The influence of captive breeding on the population genetic structure of the wildcat (Felis silvestris) and its close relatives | ||||
| 14.40-15.00 | M.T. Bappert: Seizing the chances or merely daring to dream? Mate preferences in (eusocial) monogamous Zambian mole-rats (Fukomys sp.) | ||||
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 15.30-15.50 | F. Mayer: Sperm storage, sexual conflict and the timing of reproduction in temperate bats | ||||
| 15.50-16.10 | M. Nagy: Female-biased dispersal in the Greater sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) – evolutionary causes and consequences of an untypical mammal dispersal pattern | ||||
| 16.10-18.00 | Poster Session | ||||
| 20.00 | Concert in the City Centre | ||||
| Wed, Sept 17 | "Open Session" | ||||
| 09.00-09.20 | L. Szabo: Factors that influence the Golden jackal’s (Canis aureus L. 1758) spreading in Hungary | ||||
| 09.20-09.40 | A.R. Hof: Changes in the occurrence of hedgehogs in Britain | ||||
| 09.40-10.00 | D. Weber: Monitoring european wildcats (Felis silvestris silvestris) using lure sticks, forensic Genetics, and capture-recapture statistics | ||||
| 10.00-10.20 | E. Schulz: Wear equilibria in the dentition of zebras, asses and horses (Equus, Perissodactyla) reflect habitat conditions | ||||
| 10.20-10.50 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 10.50-11.10 | P. Giere: Groundplan reconstruction of the orbito-temporal region in the skull of the Tenrecidae (Afrotheria, Mammalia) | ||||
| 11.10-11.30 | H. Jousse: Distribution of African mammals during the last 18 000 years: contribution of palaeoecology to their conservation. |
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| 11.30-11.50 | M.R. Sanchez-Villagra: The evolution of ossification patterns in mammals and the marsupial-placental dichotomy | ||||
| 11.50-12.10 | A. Shahin: C-heterochromatin and chiasma terminalization in the jerboas Allactaga and Jaculus (Rodentia: Dipodidae) | ||||
| 12.10-13.40 | Lunch Break | ||||
| 13.40-14.00 | O. Keuling: Annual and seasonal space use of different age classes of female Wild boar Sus scrofa L | ||||
| 14.00-14.20 | A.C. Frantz: Using spatial Bayesian methods to define management units in a continuous population of Wild boar (Sus scrofa): clusters or isolation-by-distance? | ||||
| 14.20-14.40 | M. Scandura: Natural and human factors affecting the genetic diversity of Wild boar populations in Italy | ||||
| 14.40-15.00 | I. Hoffmann: Life-history Traits of European Ground Squirrels vary with Habitat Characteristics | ||||
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 15.30-15.50 | R.G. Ulrich: First Germany-wide epidemiology of hantavirus infections in rodent reservoir hosts | ||||
| 15.50-16.10 | C. Siutz: Stress levels in adult and juvenile free-ranging Common hamsters (Cricetus cricetus) | ||||
| 16.10-16.30 | H.G. Rödel: Correlates and consequences of the social and non-social environment on health and body condition of juvenile European rabbits | ||||
| 19.00 | Farewell Diner and Closing Ceremony (Museum of Natural History) | ||||
| Thu, Sept 18 | Post-congress tours and excursion | ||||
| 10.00 | Excursion 1: Vienna Zoo | ||||
| 09.00 | Excursion 2: Museum of Natural History ("behind the scenes") | ||||
The conference program may be downloaded here.
Post-congress workshops
There will be several opportunities for post-congress workshops. Interested mammalogists are invited to suggest workshop topics to the Conference Conveners.
