Preliminary Program - Final conference LIFE+ MOTH
Date: 11 – 12 November 2014
Venue: Clarion Hotel Gillet, Uppsala
Tuesday, 11 November
Session I: Introduction to LIFE+ MOTH and the Swedish Article 17 reporting
09:00 – 10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00 – 10:15 Introduction (Göran Ståhl, Vice chancellor, SLU)
10:15 – 10:25 Introduction Swedish EPA
10:25 – 10:45 Overview of the 2013 Article 17 reporting in Sweden (Lena Tranvik, SLU)
10:45 – 11:05 Background and motivation of LIFE+ MOTH (Åsa Hagner, MOTH)
11:05 – 11:30 Challenges in sampling sparse habitats (Hans Gardfjell, MOTH)
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch
Session II: Habitat sampling and data collection case studies
12:30 – 12:40 Introduction (Bengt-Gunnar Jonsson, Mid-Sweden Univ)
12:40 – 13:00 Remote sensing and point-grid sampling (Anna Allard, MOTH)
13:00 – 13:20 Terrestrial habitat sampling with a two-phase point-grid survey (Sven Adler,
MOTH)
13:20 – 13:40 Habitat monitoring in Natura 2000 sites in Latvia (Rūta Sniedze–Kretalova,
Latvian Fund for Nature)
13:50 – 14:10 MOTH Sea-shore inventory (Åsa Hagner, MOTH)
14:10 – 14:30 The monitoring design for Natura 2000 habitats in Flanders (Toon Westra,
INBO, Belgium)
14:30 – 15:00
Coffee break
Session III: Use of results from habitat surveys
15:00 – 15:10 Introduction (Wenche Eide, SLU)
15:10 – 15:30 Assessment of alpine habitats in Sweden (Wenche Eide, SLU)
15:30 – 15:50 Combining survey data (Sven Adler, MOTH)
15:50 – 16:10 Monitoring of Habitat types of Community Interest in Finland - data gaps and
development needs (Olli Ojala, SYKE Finland)
16:20 – 16:40 Coverage and distribution of high value forest habitats (Hans Gardfjell,
MOTH)
16:40 – 17:00 Is Liparis loeselii a typical species? And why we should care (Clive Hurford,
Countryside Council for Wales)
19:00 – 21:00
Conference dinner
Wednesday, 12 November
Session IV: Future visions in habitat monitoring
09:00 – 09:10 Introduction (Håkan Olsson, SLU)
09.10 – 09:20 Use of remote sensing in habitat monitoring (Håkan Olsson, SLU)
09:20 – 09:50 After-LIFE (Hans Gardfjell & Åsa Hagner MOTH)
09:50 – 10:20 Coffee
10:20 – 10:40 Future visions from Swedish EPA (Johan Abenius, Swedish EPA)
10:50 – 11:50 Panel discussion
11:50 – 12:00 Closing
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
For members in steering and reference group
13:00 – 17:00 Presentation of project evaluation, etc…