Tentative Program for International Conference
on Long-Term Ecological Research
20-21 August, 2007
Venue: the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research(IGSNRR), CAS
18-19 August
(Saturday and Sunday)
Check-in at the hotel
Registration （13:00-18:00）
(Foreign Experts Building Beijing)
at the lobby of the hotel
20 August(Monday)
07:30-08:30
Registration (on-site)
08:30-09:50
08:30-09:00
Moderator:
Welcome messages:
09:00-09: 50
Plenary Session 1
Opening ceremony
Prof. ZHAO Shidong
representatives of CAS, MOST, NSFC, ILTER(Hen-biau King)
and IGSNRR
Chinese Ecosystem Research Network(CERN): Achievements
and Perspectives
by Dr. FU Bojie (CAS)
09:50-10:20
group photo and tea/coffee break
10:20-12:00
Moderator:
10:20-11:10
by Dr. G. Phillip Robertson
Plenary Session 2
Dr. Hen-biau King
New Directions for U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research
(US LTER)
11:10-12:00
by Dr. Andrew Macdonald
The Rothamsted Long-term Experiments – Past, Present and
Future
(Rothamsted Research, UK)
12:00-13:00
lunch
13:00-16:00
(except the workshop on biodiversity conservation)
Parallel workshops
Workshop 1
20 August
Meeting room#:
Co-moderators:
13:00-15:00 Part 1 :
Biodiversity conservation
13:00-17:00
(TBD)
Dr. MA Keping ( kpma@ibcas.ac.cn )
and Dr. Bruno Walther (bruno@diversitas-international.org)
moderator: Dr. MA Keping ( kpma@ibcas.ac.cn )
1
13:00-13:20
by Dr Bruno A. Walther
13:20-13:40
by Dr. SUN Bo
13:40-14:00
by Dr. Jacques Baudry
14:00-14:20
by Dr. S. Aneel Gilani
14:20-14:40
by Dr. Viesturs Melecis
14:40-15:00
by Dr. Kgope, B.S.
Towards a global biodiversity observation network: the
GEOSS framework
(France, bruno@diversitas-international.org)
Change of soil microbial diversity with landuse alteration
from paddy field to vegetable land
(CERN, bsun@issas.ac.cn)
Spatial and time scales of biodiversity trends – the role of
LTER to understanding interactions between land use and
species distribution
(France, jbaudry@rennes.inra.fr)
Conservational status of plant seedlings a tool for biodiversity
conservation in Northern Pakistan
(Pakistan, s_aneelgilani@hotmail.com)
Long-term changes forest soil mesofauna on the background
of climate warming
(Latvia, vmelecis@email.lubi.edu.lv)
Global change research on South Africa’s plant biodiversity
(South Africa, kgope@sanbi.org)
15:00-15:10 tea/coffee break
15:10-17:00
15:10-15:30
Part 2:
by Dr. MA Keping
15:30-15:50
by Drs. Victor B. Amoroso and
Mardonio M. Lao
15:50-16:10
by Dr. Armando Torres-Lezama
Hirma
16:10-16:30
moderator: Bruno Walther (bruno@diversitas-international.org)
Biodiversity monitoring in China--on Chinese forest
biodiversity monitoring network
(CERN, kpma@ibcas.ac.cn)
Assessment and conservation of biodiversity in Malindang
Range, Mindanao, Philippines
(Philippines, amorosovic@yahoo.com)
Dynamics of tree species ecological groups in logged and
unlogged tropical forests in the Venezuelan western plains.
(Venezuela, torres@ula.ve)
by Dr. Saulius Svazas
16:50-17:00
Phylogenetic diversity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in
mangrove sediments assessed by PCR- Denaturing Gradient
Gel Electrophoresis
(CERN, amy0517@gmail.com)
Biodiversity
research
in
the
cross-border
Lithuanian-Belarusian and Lithuanian-Russian LTER sites
(Lithuania, svazas@ekoi.lt)
general discussion and summary
Workshop 2
Ecosystem Restoration
Meeting room #:
TBD
by Ms. ZHANG Yanying
16:30-16:50
2
Co-moderators:
13:00-14:20
13:00-13:20
Part 1
by Drs. M.W. van Rooyen and
N. van Rooyen
13:20-13:40
Dr. LIU Guobin(gbliu@ms.iswc.ac.cn )
Dr. M. W. van Rooyen(Gretel.vanrooyen@up.ac.za)
Moderator: Dr. LIU Guobin ( gbliu@ms.iswc.ac.cn )
Monitoring the recovery of the vegetation in two conservation
areas in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa
(South Africa, Gretel.vanrooyen@up.ac.za)
by Ms. Meng-Fen Lee
Vegetation restoration of the abandoned cropland in Horqin
Sand Land of China
(CERN, nmzhaoxy@yahoo.com.cn )
Indigenous knowledge in wetland management in Lake
Victoria Basin
(Tanzania, smwakalila@yahoo.com)
Evaluating vegetation recovery following forest fires in humid
subtropical mountain forest ecosystem in central Taiwan
using multi-temporal SPOT images
(TERN, mengfenlee@gmail.com)
14:20-14:30
tea/coffee break
14:30-16:00 Part 2
14:30-14:50
by Dr. Francisco Barbosa
15:50-16:00
16:00-17:00
Moderator: M.W. van Rooyen ( Gretel.vanrooyen@up.ac.za)
Long-term ecological studies and ecological rehabilitation on
Loess Plateau of China
(CERN, gbliu@ms.iswc.ac.cn)
Activity report of Shimane University and the future
prospects of the nature restoration in lakes Shinji and
Nakaumi, newly registered ramsar sites in Japan
(Japan, kunii@soc.shimane-u.ac.jp)
Evolution characteristics of the restoration desert ecosystem
and its influence on infiltration patterns in the Tengger
Desert, Northern China
(CERN, xpwang@lzb.ac.cn)
Long term cyanobacteria dominance in a polymictic
nutrient-poor tropical lake (Gambazinho Lake, South-East
Brazil)
(Brazil, barbosa@icb.ufmg.br )
general discussion and summary
poster session (first floor of Bldg. 2)
Workshop 3 :
Carbon, Nitrogen and Water Cycling of Ecosystems
by Dr. ZHAO Xueyong
13:40-14:00
by Dr. Shadrack Mwakalila
14:00-14:20
by Dr. LIU Guobin
14:50-15:10
by Dr. Hidenobu Kunii
15:10-15:30
by Dr. WANG Xinping
15:30-15:50
Session 1 (carbon)
Meeting room# :
Co-moderators:
(TBD)
Dr. ZHOU Guoyi (gyzhou@scib.ac.cn)
Dr. Martin Forsius (Finland, martin.forsius@ymparisto.fi)
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13:00-14:20
13:00-13:20
Part 1:
by Dr. Chiung-Pin Liu
14:00-14:20
by Dr. Wang Bing
Moderator: Dr. ZHOU Guoyi (gyzhou@scib.ac.cn)
Processes controlling the increasing trends of dissolved
organic carbon concentrations in the surface waters of a
boreal catchment (Lammi LTER-site, Finland)
(Finland, martin.forsius@ymparisto.fi)
Research progress and future directions of ChinaFLUX
(CERN，yugr@igsnrr.ac.cn )
Dissolved Organic Carbon and Nitrogen in Precipitation,
Throughfall, Soil solution, and Stream Water in the
subtropics of the Fushan Forest
(TERN, cpliu@nchu.edu.tw)
Carbon Density and Storage of Bamboo Forest in China
(CFERN, wangbing@forestry.ac.cn)
14:20-14:30
tea/coffee break
by Dr. Martin Forsius
13:20-13:40
by Dr. YU Guirui
13:40-14:00
14:30-16:00
14:30-14:50
Part 2
by
14:50-15:10
by Dr. Hideaki Shibata
15:10-15:30
by Dr. SHA Liqing
15:30-15:50
by Dr. SU Peixi
15:50-16:00
16:00-17:00
Workshop 4
Session 1
13:00-14:20
13:00-13:20
Part 1
by Dr. Clyde E. Goulden
13:20-13:40
Moderator: Dr. Martin Forsius (martin.forsius@ymparisto.fi)
Analysis on the impacts of various factors on leaf litter
decomposition from an intersite decomposition experiment
across China
Dr. ZHOU Guoyi (CERN, gyzhou@scib.ac.cn)
Spatial and temporal pattern of dissolved carbon and
nitrogen in stream water with topographical gradient in
forested basins in northern Japan.
(Japan, shiba@fsc.hokudai.ac.jp)
CO2 Flux in a Tropical Seasonal Rain Forest in
Xishuangbanna
( CERN, shalq@xtbg.ac.cn )
Stable carbon isotope variation in plants and their indicating
significances along the inland Heihe River basin of
northwestern China
(CERN, supx@lzb.ac.cn )
general discussion and summary
poster session (first floor of Bldg. 2)
Environmental Changes and their Impacts to Ecosystems
Co-moderators: Dr. ZHAO Xinquan (xqzhao@nwipb.ac.cn)
Dr. Clyde E. Goulden (cgoulden@acnatsci.org)
Moderator: Dr. ZHAO Xinquan (xqzhao@nwipb.ac.cn)
Climate change and grazing impacts at the Mongolian
Long-Term Ecological Research network site, Lake Hovsgol,
Mongolia
(Mongolia, cgoulden@acnatsci.org)
Oil spill in Panay Island: its effects and need for post-marine
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by Mai-He Li
biodiversity assessment
(Philippines, drpacjr@yahoo.com)
Long term dynamics of biophysical structure and bioeconomy
of the Lower Danube River System (LDRS)
(Romania, cristof@braila.net )
Are critical values for atmospheric deposition and ozone in
Swiss forests exceeded?
(Switzerland, maihe.li@wsl.ch )
14:20-14:30
tea/coffee break
by Dr. Paciente A. Cordero, Jr.
13:40-14:00
by Dr. Sergiu Cristofor
14:00-14:20
14:30-16:00
14:30-14:50
Part 2
by Dr. ZHAO Xinquan
14:50-15:10
by Drs. Miguel Equihua &
Griselda Benítez
15:10-15:30
by Dr. Ricardo Diaz-Delgado
15:30-15:50
By Dr. Yongyut Trisurat
15:50-16:00
16:00-17:00
Workshop 5:
13:00-17:00
Meeting room: No.
Moderator: Clyde E. Goulden (cgoulden@acnatsci.org)
Climate change and its ecological impacts —The evidences
from the field experiments on northeastern Tibetan plateau
(CERN, xqzhao@nwipb.ac.cn )
LTER for adaptation to global warming in Veracruz, Mexico
(Mexico, Miguel.equihua@inecol.edu.mx)
Monitoring of natural processes in Doñana at landscape scale
(Spain, rdiaz@ebd.csic.es)
Modeling Landscape and Land Use Change at the Sakaerat
Biosphere Reserve LTER Site
(Thailand, fforyyt@ku.ac.th )
general discussion and summary
poster session (first floor of Bldg. 2)
ILTER Science Agenda
(TBD)
Dr. Patrick Bourgeron (USA, patrick.bourgeron@colorado.edu
Dr. Francisco Barbosa( Brazil, barbosa@icb.ufmg.br )
Co-moderators:)
Dr. Manuel Maass(Mexico, maass@oikos.unam.mx)
Dr. Hen-Biau King(TERN, hbking@twecoinformatics.org) , and
Dr. Steve Hamburg (USA, steven_hamburg@brown.edu)
1.
a.
b.
c.
2.
a.
b.
Advancing innovative and anticipatory research (IAR)
ILTER intellectual and technical infrastructure
ILTER as a facilitator and provider of incentive to IAR
ILTER as an incubator for developing new approaches to
eco-informatics/cyberinfrastructure
Informing decisions with socio-ecological knowledge (SEK)
ILTER ways to integrating SEK into policy and management
ILTER as a promoter for participatory research and monitoring
within local communities
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3.
4.
Stimulating cultural synthesis and integration for
socio-ecological science
ILTER as a provider of international linkages/globalization of
access to SEK
ILTER as a facilitator and catalyst to international
interdisciplinary approaches
ILTER as a facilitator of knowledge flow
Group discussion
16:00-17:00
poster session (first floor of the 2 Bldg.)
18:30-20:00
Welcome banquet---? Hotel（chaired by Bojie Fu）
21 August
(Tuesday)
08:30-10:10
Moderator:
08:30- 09:20
by Dr. Mark E. Harmon
Plenary Session 3
Dr. FU Bojie
The role of LTER in integrated ecosystem assessment in the
UK
（ECN, UK）
Developing a General Understanding of the Decomposition
Process: Results of a network experiment
(US LTER)
10:10-10:20
tea/coffee break
10:20-12:00
Moderator:
10:20-11:10
by Dr. HAN Xingguo
Plenary Session 4
Dr. Terry Parr
The role of flux networks to understand terrestrial biosphere
feed-backs to the global carbon cycle
（University of Tusnia, Italy）
Data mining from a long term grassland monitoring data
base
(CERN)
12:00-13:00
lunch
13:00-16:00
Workshop 3 :
Session 2( nitrogen)
Parallel Workshops
a.
b.
c.
by Dr. Terry Parr
09:20-10:10
by Dr. Riccardo Valentini
11:10-12:00
Meeting room: No.
13:00-14:20
Part 1
13:00-13:20
Carbon, Nitrogen and Water Cycling of Ecosystems
Co-moderators: Dr. ZHU Bo (bzhu@imde.ac.cn)
Dr. Teng-Chiu Lin (tclin@cc.ncue.edu.tw)
(TBD)
Moderator: Dr. ZHU Bo (bzhu@imde.ac.cn)
Fog and precipitation chemistry at a mid-land humid forest
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by Dr. LIU Qing
in central Taiwan
(TERN, tclin@cc.ncue.edu.tw )
Nitrogen fertilization enhances soil water deficit and results
in accumulation of nitrate in a semiarid soil profile
(CERN, slguo@ms.iswc.ac.cn )
Effects of long-term cycling of organic nutrient on soil
nitrogen supplying capacity in a red soil paddy ecosystem
(CERN, alchen@isa.ac.cn )
Influence of nitrate amendment on the fate of nonylphenol
under anoxic conditions in submerged paddy soils
(CERN, qliu@issas.ac.cn )
14:20-14:30
tea/coffee break
14:30-15:00 Part 2:
14:30-14:50
by Dr. MA Junhua
15:30-15:50
Moderator:Dr. Teng-Chiu Lin ( mailto:tclin@cc.ncue.edu.tw )
Characteristics of nitrate leaching loss from slope cropland of
purple soil
(CERN, bzhu@imde.ac.cn )
The study on the relationship between the soil organic matter
content and soil productivity
(CERN, xyzhang1966@yahoo.com.cn )
Adsorption on soil of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen
from cattle manure: a preliminary study
(CERN, majh@igsnrr.ac.cn )
(TBD)
15:50-16:00
16:00-17:00
general discussion and summary
poster session (first floor of Bldg. 2)
Workshop 3 :
Session 3 (water)
Carbon, Nitrogen and Water Cycling
Meeting room: No.
13:00-14:20 Part 1
13:00-13:20
(TBD)
Moderator: Dr. Yue-Joe Hsia (yjhsia01@hotmail.com )
Development of a distributed eco-hydrological model for
water management in irrigation district of the Yellow River
Basin, China
(CERN, luoyi.cas@gmail.com )
Soil water and nutrients use and balance and their
environmental effects in the rainfed cropland eco-systems: a
long-term experiment study on the loess plateau
(CERN, wzliu@ms.iswc.ac.cn )
Growth, biomass production, water-use efficiency and leaf
anatomy of two leguminous shrubs in response to water stress
(CERN, baowk@cib.ac.cn )
by Dr. Teng-Chiu Lin
13:20-13:40
by Dr. GUO Shengli
13:40-14:00
by Dr. CHEN Anlei
14:00-14:20
by Dr. ZHU Bo
14:50-15:10
by Dr. ZHANG Xingyi
15:10-15:30
by Dr. LUO Yi
13:20-13:40
by Dr. LIU Wenzhao
13:40-14:00
by Dr. BAO Weikai
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14:00-14:20
by Dr. SUN Hongyong
Sustainable water management in irrigation regions:
Understanding the impact of precipitation trend on crop
productivity in the North China Plain
(CERN, hysun@sjziam.ac.cn )
14:20-14:30
tea/coffee break
14: 30-16:00 Part 2
14:30-14:50
Moderator: Dr. LUO Yi ( luoyi.cas@gmail.com )
the impact of fog on the energy budget of a subtropical
cypress forest in Taiwan
(TERN, yjhsia01@hotmail.com )
Nutrient budget of irrigation-drainage system of paddy field
in the Yangtse Delta region
(CERN, djwang@issas.ac.cn)
Impact of temperature and moisture on soil respiration:
deconvolution analysis of field data in subtropical forests in
southern China
(CERN, xltang@scib.ac.cn )
Soil Water Dynamics as Influenced by Land Use Changes in
Karst Mountainous Region in Northwest Guangxi
( CAS, hbchs@isa.ac.cn )
general discussion and summary
poster session (first floor of Bldg. 2)
by Dr. Yue-Joe Hsia
14:50-15:10
by Dr. WANG Dejian
15:10-15:30
by Dr. TANG Xuli
15:30-15:50
by Dr. CHEN Yongsong
15:50-16:00
16:00-17:00
Workshop 4
Session 2
by Mr. CHEN Jie
14:00-14:20
by Dr. WANG Yinghong
Environmental Changes and their Impacts to Ecosystems
Co-moderators: Dr. WANG Yuesi ( wys@dq.cern.ac.cn)
Dr. Shih-Chieh Chang (scchang@mail.ndhu.edu.tw)
Moderator: Dr. WANG Yuesi ( wys@dq.cern.ac.cn)
Toward an understanding of typhoon effects on soil nutrient
dynamics of a subtropical forest ecosystem
(TERN, scchang@mail.ndhu.edu.tw)
Climate Change from 1980 to 2005 in the Ailao Mountains,
Southwest China
（CERN，liuy@xtbg.ac.cn ）
Applicability assessment and improvement of CLIGEN
non−precipitation parameters on the Loess Plateau
(CERN, chj092413@yahoo.com.cn )
Measurement of greenhouse gases in CERN stations
(CERN, wyh@mail.iap.ac.cn )
14:20-14:30
tea/coffee break
14:30-16:00 Part 2
14:30-14:50
Moderator: Shih-Chieh Chang (scchang@mail.ndhu.edu.tw)
Research Progress in Sub-Center of Atmosphere Science
13:00-14:20 Part 1
13:00-13:20
by Dr. Shi-Chieh Chang
13:20-13:40
by Dr. LIU Yang
13:40-14:00
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by Dr. WANG Yuesi
14:50-15:10
by Dr. SHEN Zhiliang
15:10-15:30
by Dr. SONG Xuzhong
15:30-15:50
（CERN, wys@dq.cern.ac.cn ）
Long-term variations of nutrients and its structure and
ecological responses in Jiaozhou Bay, China
(CERN, zhlshen@ms.qdio.ac.cn )
A province-scale long-term forest ecosystem monitoring in
Zhejiang
(Zhejiang Academy of Forestry, China, popsong@163.com )
Detecting the Impacts of Anthropogenic and Climatic
Changes on Water, Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling of
Ecosystems in Eastern Asia
by Dr. WANG Qinxue
15:50-16:00
16:00-17:00
(Japan, wangqx@nies.go.jp )
Workshop 4
Session 3
by Dr. HU Bo
Environmental Changes and their Impacts to Ecosystems
Co-moderators: Dr. Lih-Jih Wang (ljwang@ntu.edu.tw)
Dr. SUN Song (sunsong@ms.qdio.ac.cn)
Moderator: Lih-Jih Wang (ljwang@ntu.edu.tw)
Influences of human activities and global climate change on
the Jiaozhou Bay Ecosystem
(CERN, sunsong@ms.qdio.ac.cn )
Different response of Caragana microphylla Lam and Leymus
Chinensis to CO2 enrichment in Inner Mongolia grassland
(CERN, wudx@ibcas.ac.cn )
‘Fertile island’ effect of Tamarix and Haloxylon ammodendron
shrubs in the south Gurbantunggut desert, Xinjiang, China
(CAS, lijun@ms.xjb.ac.cn )
Spatio-temporal characteristics of ultraviolet radiation and
photosynthetically active radiation derived from the
ground-based measurements taken in CERN
(CERN, hb@dq.cern.ac.cn)
14:20-14:30
tea/coffee break
14:30-16:00 Part 2
14:30-14:50
Moderator: SUN Song (sunsong@ms.qdio.ac.cn)
Hydrochemical responses of two debris-torrent impacted
watersheds to the 2005 typhoon Talim event--A case study in
the Chitou Experimental Forest, Central Taiwan
(TERN, ljwang@ntu.edu.tw)
Aerosol optical properties observed by the Chinese Sun
Hazemeter Network and evaluation of the MODIS AOD
products over China
(CERN, xjy@dq.cern.ac.cn)
the Background Atmosphere Monitoring Network of CAS
13:00-14:20 Part 1
13:00-13:20
by Dr. SUN Song
13:20-13:40
by Dr. WU Dongxiu
13:40-14:00
by Dr. LI Jun
14:00-14:20
by Dr. Lih-Jih Wang
14:50-15:10
by Dr. XIN Jinyuan
15:10-15:30
general discussion and summary
poster session (first floor of Bldg. 2)
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by Dr. SUN Yang
15:30-15:50
by Dr. FANG Huajun
15:50-16:00
16:00-17:00
(CERN, suny@mail.iap.ac.cn )
Carbon and nitrogen coupling processes in forest ecosystem
and responses to climate change along North-South transect
of Eastern China (NSTEC)
(CERN, fanghj@igsnrr.ac.cn)
general discussion and summary
poster session (first floor of Bldg. 2)
18:30-20:00
dinner
Workshop 6:
21 August
Meeting room: No.
Information Management
13:00-16:00
A) 13:00 – 13:30
by Dr. HE Honglin
a) introduction to CERN IMS
b) Demo of CERN IMS
B) 13:30 – 14:10
a)
b)
c)
d)
C) 14:10 – 14:30
D) 14:30 – 15:30
a.
b.
E)
(TBD)
Co-moderators: Dr. Kristine Vanderbilt
(USA, vanderbi@sevilleta.unm.edu)
Dr. Chau-chin Lin
(TERN, chin@twecoinformatics.org )
CERN Information Management System
(CERN, hhonglin@cern.ac.cn )
Metadata Management with EML
Introduction to EML and Morpho (Kristin Vanderbilt)
QA/QC with EML -- Demonstration (Chau-chin Lin)
Data Analysis with EML – Demonstration (Chau-chin Lin)
Data Analysis with Kepler – Demonstration (chau-chin Lin)
Tea/coffee Break
Metadata Management with Ontologies
Introduction to Ontologies (Schleidt)
Introduction to MORIS (Schleidt)
Group discussion (15:30 –16:00) (Schleidt, Lin, Vanderbilt)
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