April 2-8, 2016 meeting
International Association for Landscape Ecology
Theme: Landscape Change
Symposium: Reshaping Landscapes: Bioenergy and Biodiversity II
Organizer: Henriette Jager email
Objective: We convened an IALE Bioenergy-Biodiversity symposium in 2010 when bioenergy sustainability research was re-emerging after a long hiatus. Six years later, this follow-on symposium convened landscape ecologists who have studied responses of birds, wildlife, pollinators, and aquatic biota to different bioenergy feedstocks and management practices during the intervening years. By shifting the economy away from fossil fuels, bioenergy is also shifting the landscape of ecosystem services. Future landscapes will likely include an array of dedicated bioenergy crops and residues from conventional crops and forests as bioenergy feedstocks. Our research, as landscape ecologists, will guide the emerging bioeconomy toward spatial arrangements and decisions that support higher biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. The goal of this symposium was to reach a common understanding of how bioenergy landscapes can be designed to benefit wildlife and aquatic habitat. Because these questions feed into policy and processes that guide sustainable practices, we also invite research that uses spatial optimization, ecological valuation, and outreach to stakeholders to guide landscape management decisions.
- Introductory remarks: Kristen Johnson, DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office presentation
- Speaker 1: Henriette Jager (ORNL)
Title: Can future US bioenergy production coexist with avian biodiversity? presentation abstract
- Speaker 2: Luciano Verdade, University of San Paolo, Brazil
Title: Vegetation biomass as a surrogate for birds diversity presentation abstract
- Speaker 3: Colin Phifer, Michigan Technological University
Title: Bird community responses to afforested eucalyptus plantations in Argentina presentation abstract
- Speaker 4: Elke Brandes, Iowa State University
Title: Subfield profitability analysis reveals an economic case to increase biodiversity presentation abstract
- Speaker 5: Chris Lituma, Center for Native Grassland Management, University of Tennessee
Title: Multi-scale assessment of wildlife sustainability in switchgrass biofuel feedstock production presentation abstract
- Speaker 6: Colleen Zumpf and Maria Cristina Negri, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: A resource recovering landscape for sustainable bioenergy presentation abstract
- Speaker 7: Gwen White and Michael Schwartz, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie & Big Rivers LCC
Title: Mississippi Basin / Gulf Hypoxia Initiative: Seven LCCs meet largescale agricultural conservation challenges from grassland birds to Gulf coast shrimp spatial tool-presentation abstract
- Speaker 8: Kevin Craig, NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Beaufort Laboratory
Title: Linking watershed processes to coastal fisheries: effects of nutrient enrichment and hypoxia on the Gulf of Mexico fishery ecosystem presentation abstract
- Speaker 9: Samuel Evans, University of California, Berkeley
Title: The role of economics in understanding biodiversity in bioenergy landscapes. presentation abstract
- Speaker 10: A Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Michigan State University
Title: Optimization of bioenergy crop selection and placement based on a stream health indicator. abstract