WWF

 

(Some of the presentations are available as pdf)

10.00 Lennart Nyman, chairman
Lasse Gustavsson, Secretary General, WWF Sweden Opening Session
10.20 Bo Källstrand, County Governor Sweden Opening Session
10.30 Mark Marissink, EU Commission Belgium, About LIFE and FPM 
10.45 Mark Young, Scotland, How much do we know about the population ecology of the FPM (Margaritifera margaritifera) in relation to its conservation?
11.30 Jürgen Geist, Germany, The importance of genetic information for the conservation of the FPM
12.15 Christer Nilsson, Sweden, The science of river restoration 
12.45 LUNCH   
14.00 Ted von Proschwitz, Sweden, The FPM in Sweden during five centuries (1539-2009) – an outlook from the work on a Swedish bibliography on large freshwater mussels
14.20 Håkan Söderberg, Sweden, FPM status and trends in Sweden
14.40 Lennart Henrikson & Sofi Alexanderson, Sweden, FPM and it's habitats in Sweden – a LIFE-project
15.00 Ian Killeen, England, Conservation and restoration of a FPM population in northern England  
15.20 COFFEE  
15.50 Evelyn Moorkens, Ireland Monitoring, interpretation, and resulting catchment management approach to the conservation and restoration of protected Margaritifera margaritifera population in the republic of Ireland
16.10 Tönu Talvi, Estonia, The FPM as rarest invertebrate species in Estonia: distribution, habitats and population status
16.30 Johan Törnblom, Per Angelstam & Johannes Pålsson, Sweden, Conservation of the Swedish FPM population – the EU Water Framework Directive and need for landscape planning
16.50 Nicola Barnfather, England, FPM; an Environmental Regulator's Perspective
17.10 Lennart Henrikson, Sweden, Planning of FPM conservation with focus on forestry
17.30 Poster session  

 

9.00-17.00 Field excursion:  Visit to the streams Brånsån and Navarån.
See Excursion guide

9.00 Pierre Durlet, France, Impact of dams on FPM conservation, France

9.20 Björn Mejdell Larsen, Norway, The effects of liming on FPM (Margaritifera margaritifera) in a Norwegian river
9.40 Martin Österling, Björn Arvidsson, Larry Greenberg, Jens Hultman & Jan-Olov Högberg, Sweden, Bottom substrate limiting the survival of juvenile FPM
10.00 Christine Schmidt & Robert Vandré, Germany, Do signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus harm freshwater pearl mussels? Particular field observations
10.20 COFFEE  
10.50 Elena Dunca, Håkan Söderberg & Oskar Norrgrann, Sweden, Age structure and growth on FPM – a useful tool in aquatic conservation
11.10 Amra Hadzihalilovic-Numanovic & Björn Arvidsson, Sweden, Conservation genetics of FPM (Margaritifera margaritifera) populations in south Sweden
11.30 Svante Holm, Sweden, High levels of genetic variation and structure in FPM (Margaritifera margaritifera) in four rivers in Sweden
11.50 Eef Cauweilier, Eric Verspoor, Elisabeth C. Tarr, Ian Sime, Philip Boon & Mark Young, Scotland, Genetic diversity and differentiation of FPM population in the UK
12.10 Conor D. Wilson, Dai Roberts, S. Jane Preston, Jim Provan & Alan Keys, Northern Ireland, The importance of genetic analysis in developing protocols for pilot scale introductions of captive-bred Margaritifera margaritifera into the wild
12.30 LUNCH  
13.45 Lennart Nyman, chairman  Discussion
15.00 Lennart Nyman, chairman
Lennart Henrikson, WWF  Closing session
15.30 END