Network conference speaker line up continues to grow
The programme for the Network’s conference (23-26 May 2013) continues to grow.
The following speakers are now confirmed:
Dame Anne Salmond (University of Auckland) - New Zealander of the Year 2012 – Rivers, plants and networks
Dr Peter Heenan (Landcare Research) - Tane Ngahere Lecture: “Discovery and description of the New Zealand flora ….. more than just a name”
Professor Dave Kelly (Canterbury University) - The importance of species interactions for plant conservation
Dr Leon Perrie (Te Papa Tongarewa) - Native plants outside their natural range
Dr Mike Wilcox (Auckland) - Auckland’s Remarkable Urban Forest
Dr Carolyn Lundquist (NIWA) - Can we turn back the clock? Managing mangrove expansion in northern New Zealand
Michael Way (Millennium Seed Bank, UK) - Ex situ conservation in a changing world: the Millennium Seed Bank partnership
Dr John Leathwick (Department of Conservation) - Prioritising the Department of Conservation’s ecosystem and threatened species management
Dr Dave Galloway, Rick Kooperberg and Janet Ledingham - Urban lichens in New Zealand: a forgotten resource?
Dr Steve Wagstaff (Landcare Research) - Species coalescence in the Marlborough rock daisies (Pachystegia, Asteraceae): an endemic genus from New Zealand
Philip Grove (Environment Canterbury) - Recovery of a population of the threatened shrub Olearia adenocarpa on Canterbury Regional Council reserve land at Rakaia Island
Dr Ilse Breitwieser (Landcare Research) - The next generation of NZ Floras
Jeremy Rolfe (Department of Conservation) - Update on the NZ Threat Classification System 2012 review of vascular plants
Cathy Jones (Nelson) and Jan Clayton-Greene (Department of Conservation) - Update on saving an ephemeral wetland and its threatened plants
Dr Dave Glenny (Landcare Research) - Current threats to bryophytes from coal mining industry
Dr Melissa Hutchison (Wildland Consultants) - Back from the dead: the rediscovery of Pittosporum obcordatum on Banks Peninsula after 170 years of local extinction
Dr Rob Smissen (Landcare Research) - Progress towards the delimitation of species in New Zealand Craspedia
Lisa Forester (Northland Regional Council) - Northland Coastal Dune Lakes – rare treasures worth protecting
Geoff Walls (Canterbury) - Feral pohutukawa and other island stories
Zoe Stone (Auckland University) - The importance of plant phenology in understanding flora-fauna interactions
Debra Wotton - Why are some plant species rare? A search for mechanisms
Geoff Davidson (Oratia Nursery) - Are we there yet? We have barely started
John Barkla (Department of Conservation) - Project Gold – Celebrating and cherishing kowhai
Marie Brown - Compensating for ecological harm - implications for the New Zealand flora
Joy Comrie and Alice Shanks - Managing a hotdot – limited options when numbers get very low
Posted: 18/04/2013