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The conference on 
Sustainable Conservation: 
Bridging the gap between disciplines
15-18 March, 2010, Trondheim, Norway 

is arranged by Centre Conservation Biology at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) and is part of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
 

	Present the scientific basis for a sustainable conservation of natural resources
	Focus on the process of extinction and management actions that can increase the lifetime of populations at the local and regional level
	Identify common principles for a sustainable management that also can ensure conservation
	Organizers are professors Gunilla Rosenqvist and Bernt-Erik Sæther, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
	Preliminary program here.....

	Plenary Speakers:
	Prof. Ilka Hanski, University of Helsinki, Finland Prof. William J. Sutherland, University of Cambridge, UK Prof. Stuart Pimm, Duke University, USA Prof. Hugh Possingham, The Ecology Centre, Univ. of Queensland, Australia Prof. Russell Lande, Imperial College, London, UK Invited Speakers:
	Prof. Steve R. Beissinger, University of California at Berkley, USA Dr. Hal Caswell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA Prof. Kjell Danell, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden Dr. John M. Drake, University of Georgia, USA Prof. Stephen P. Ellner, Cornell University, USA Prof. Steinar Engen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Prof.  William F. Fagan, University of Maryland , USA Prof. John M. Fryxell, University of Guelph, Canada Dr. Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy, USA Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, The Heinz Center Dr. Jane Reid, University of Aberdeen, UK Prof. David Tilman, University of Minnesota, USA

The conference will bring leading researchers from around the world to present and discuss the scientific basis for a sustainable conservation of natural resources. In particular, we will focus on the process of extinction and management actions that can increase the lifetime of populations both at the local and regional level. A central goal for the conference will be to identify common principles for a sustainable management that also can ensure conservation.

The conference will be arranged during the period March 15 - 18 at the Rica Nidelven Hotel, Trondheim, 2010.

The conference will be composed of four plenary talks that will provide a general overview of some broader issues related to sustainable conservations and four sessions which include talks of invited speakers, contributed talks and posters: 

List of conference speakers and organizers here...

The first session will provide some general overviews of why conserving biodiversity. We will examine scientific evidence for system effects on changes in the biodiversity at the genetic, population and species level. 

The second session will consider the five major threats for the Earth's biodiversity: habitat degradation and fragmentation, climate change, introduction of alien species, pollution and over-exploitation. Our aim will be to present key-studies that give quantitative examples on how these drivers affect biodiversity at the genetic, population and/or ecosystem level. 

Session 3 will deal with development of effective tools for predicting changes in biodiversity. In this section we will focus on how models can be used to predict changes in species composition or population viability, and how parameterization of these models often will require interdisciplinary collaboration between biology, mathematical and social sciences. We will focus on carefully selected model studies, which can be used as examples for such integration among different disciplines. 

In the last section we will review practical examples in which management of biodiversity is based on principles integrating cross-disciplinary collaboration, where we will emphasize studies in which conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are based on a science-based integrated approach unifying different science disciplines.

The program will include a mixture of talks by invited speakers and contributed talks by participants. In addition, there will be a poster session.