Programme
Preliminary programme 2015
Sunday 31st May
Arrival, accommodation
Monday 1st June
8.00–10.50 Arrival, registration, coffee in the museum entrance hall (street address Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13)
10.50 Opening of the colloquium (Economicum lecture room, adjacent building)
11.00–12.00 PLENARY prof. John Koprowski: Listen to the chatter: what can squirrels teach us about conservation in a changing world?
12.00–13.00 Session: Conservation, Chair: Ilpo K. Hanski
12.00
Andrea Santangeli & Ralf Wistbacka
Finding the minimum required forest patch size for Siberian flying squirrel females - implications for revising the legislation
12.20
Todd M. Wilson
Importance of forest structure for northern flying squirrels and implications for promoting habitat favorable for spotted owls
12.40
Craig Shuttleworth
Out of the frying pan and into the fire: what future for the red squirrel on Anglesey?
13.00–14.00 Lunch (Hotel Presidentti, Restaurant Sevilla)
14.00–15.30 Session: Conservation, Chair: Melissa Merrick
14.00
Christine A. Kelly, Corinne A. Diggins & Andrew J. Lawrence
Crossing structures reconnect federally endangered flying squirrel populations divided for 20 years by road barrier
14.20
Stuart Wells
Developing an ex situ propagation for release program for the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis) at the Phoenix Zoo’s Johnson Foundation Conservation Center
14.40
Elisabeth Halliwell, Rhys Jenkins, Iolo Lloyd & Craig Shuttleworth
Clocaenog forest: illuminating the challenges of red squirrel conservation in commercial spruce plantations
15.00
Corinne A. Diggins, L. Michelle Gilley, Christine A. Kelly & W. Mark Ford
Use of ultrasonic acoustics as a monitoring technique for endangered Carolina northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus) in the Appalachian Mountains
15.30–16.00 Coffee break (Economicum entrance hall)
16.00–17.00 Session: Squirrel distribution, Chair: Andrea Santangeli
16.00
Tytti Turkia
Large-scale patterns in abundance of the red squirrel in Finland and Russia
16.20
Juri Kurhinen et al.
New data on the areal and territorial distribution of the Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans L.) in Eurasian boreal forests
16.40
Murali Krishna, Awadhesh Kumar & Tripathi Om Prakash
Gliding Squirrels of Eastern Himalayan Arunachal Pradesh, India
18.30–22.00 Dinner and Welcome party at the museum; presentation of exhibitions of the Natural History Museum
Tuesday 2nd June
9.00–10.00 PLENARY prof. John Gurnell: Red gives way to grey – is the complete replacement of red squirrels by grey squirrels in the British Isles now inevitable?
10.00–10.30 Coffee break
10.30–12.00 Session: Invasive species, Chair: Takeo Kawamichi
10.30
Anna Lisa Signorile, Peter Lurz, Jinliang Wang, Daniel C. Reuman & Chris Carbone
Mixture or mosaic? The historical spread of grey squirrels in the UK supports the role of multiple translocations over a single expansion front
10.50
Emily Goldstein, Fidelma Butler & Colin Lawton
Comparing dynamics of frontier and established invasive grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) populations
11.10
Pizza Ka Yee Chow, Lisa Leaver & Stephen Lea
Fifty (one) shades of grey (and red) squirrels: do the two species differ intrinsically in flexibility?
11.30
Peter Lurz & Andrew White
The spread of squirrelpox in southern Scotland: an assessment of disease control efforts and future conservation options
12.00–13.00 Lunch (Hotel Presidentti, Restaurant Sevilla)
13.00–13.40 Session: Invasive species, Chair: John Scheibe
13.00
Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto, Mattia Panzeri, Marina Morandini, Ambrogio Molinari, Lucas Wauters, Damiano Preatoni & Adriano Martinoli
Callosciurus erythraeus and Sciurus vulgaris in Italy: a new case study of the competition between invasive and native species
13.20
Jonathan Derbridge & John Koprowski
Effects of experimental removals of an invasive competitor on space use of an endangered tree squirrel
13.40-15.00 Session: Dispersal, Chair: Vesa Selonen
13.40
Melissa Merrick & John Koprowski
Natal dispersal on the edge: why they leave, why they stop, and how they get there
14.00
Allyssa Kilanowski & John Koprowski
Cavity nest selection during juvenile dispersal: behavioral phenotypes are more influential than natal habitat cues
14.20
Karen Fey, Suvi Hämäläinen & Vesa Selonen
Dispersing red squirrels do not avoid roads
15.00–17.00 Poster session in the museum building, coffee and snacks
Wednesday 3rd June
Field trip to Evo Kotinen primeval forest
12.00 Bus to Evo
14.00–16.30 Forest excursion
17.00 Dinner at Lammi Biological Station
18.00–19.30 Bus to Helsinki
21.00–00.30 Night trip to Espoo flying squirrel forest
Thursday 4th June
8.30-10.00 Session: Modeling behaviour and environment, Chair: Sanna Mäkeläinen
8.30
Hannah Jones, Andrew White & Peter Lurz
A modelling assessment of population dynamics of red squirrels in Northern England in relation to forest design plans
8.50
Elizabeth Flaherty, Winston Smith, Stephanie Trapp & Patrick Zollner
Predicting persistence of northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus) in a fragmented landscape using field data, laboratory experiments, and spatially explicit modelling
9.10
Margaret Flaherty & Colin Lawton
Using species distribution models and landscape connectivity analysis to develop management strategies for squirrel conservation
9.30
Henrik J de Knegt, Vesa Selonen, Ilpo K Hanski & Otso Ovaskainen
Separating processes and phases in Siberian flying squirrel movements
10.00–10.30 Coffee break
10.30–12.00 Session: Behaviour, Chair: Michael Steele
10.30
Noriko Tamura, Yukiko Fujii, Phadet Boonkeow & Budsabong Kanchanasaka
Color vision and species recognition of Callosciurus finlaysonii
10.50
Mieko Kawamichi, Melissa Merrick, Kyoko Hazama, John Koprowski & Takeo Kawamichi
Daily activity and nest use in cliff chipmunks Tamias dorsalis
11.10
Takeo Kawamichi & Shuji Kanazawa
Video monitoring nest boxes of a female Japanese giant flying squirrel Petaurista leucogenys for 9 years
11.30
Shannon Digweed, Drew Rendall & Teana Imbeau
Who’s your neighbour? Acoustic cues to individual identity in red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) rattle calls
12.00–13.00 Lunch (Hotel Presidentti, Restaurant Sevilla)
The afternoon workshop (13.00-15.00) is based on the Italian PRIN project “Climate change and animal populations: predictive models for mammals and birds.” PRIN (Project of National Interest) 2010–2011, Coordinator: Prof. Marco Apollonio; Partners: University of Sassari, Insubria Varese, Pavia, Palermo and ISAC-CNR, Turin (Code: 20108 TZKHC)
13.00-14.00 PLENARY prof. Luc Wauters
Will global warming affect producer-consumer dynamics in tree squirrels? The case of Eurasian red squirrels in the Alps
14.00-15.00 Session: Climate change, Chair: Winston Smith
14.00
Jeffrey Lane, Andrew McAdam, Eryn McFarlane, Cory Williams, Murray Humphries, David Coltman, Jamie Gorrell & Stan Boutin
Phenotypic stasis belies a phenological advance at the genetic level in North American red squirrels - cancelled
14.20
Vesa Selonen, Ralf Wistbacka & Erkki Korpimäki
Effects of weather and food on reproduction of European red squirrels and Siberian flying squirrels
14.40
John Koprowski
Squirrels and their cache sites as indicators of global change
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-17.00 Session: Morphometrics, genetics, parasites, Chair: Lisa Signorile
15.30
John Scheibe
Geometric morphometrics of the skull and dentary in gliding mammals
15.50
Patrícia Pečnerová, Jiří C. Moravec &, Natália Martínková
Systematic puzzle resolved: morphological convergence explains the conflict of morphology and genetics in Sciurini tree squirrels
16.10
Karen Munroe
Population genetics of two overlapping populations of tree squirrels (Sciurus carolinesis and S. niger)
16.30
Francesca Santicchia, Claudia Romeo, Adriano Martinoli, Paolo Lanfranchi, Lucas Wauters & Nicola Ferrar
Indirect effects on host resistance to parasite infections: preliminary evidence in the Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)
18.30–22.00 Banquet at the Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden
Friday 5th June
8.30-10.00 Session: Landscape and urban ecology, Chair: Peter Lurz
8.30
JT Pynne & Andrew Edelman
Influence of pine forest fragmentation on southeastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) occupancy patterns
8.50
Steven M. Sullivan & Amy T. Sullivan
Squirrel demography as an indicator of local ecology
9.10
Sanna Mäkeläinen, Vesa Selonen & Ilpo K. Hanski
Effects of habitat availability and urbanization on survival in the Siberian flying squirrel
9.30
Kenta Uchida, Kei Suzuki, Tatsuki Shimamoto, Hisashi Yanagawa & Itsuro Koizumi
Effects of urbanization on vigilance behavior: flight initiation distance and antipredator behavior of Eurasian red squirrels
10.00–10.30 Coffee break
10.30-12.00 Session: Urban ecology, continued, Chair: John Koprowski
10.30
James Turner, Stephanie Reher, Lisa Warnecke & Kathrin Dausmann
Seasonal energy balance of Eurasian red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) inhabiting a semi-urban environment
10.50
Suvi Hämäläinen, Karen Fey & Vesa Selonen
Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in an urban environment - habitat and nest use during natal dispersal
11.10
General discussion
Announcement of the next colloquium in 2018
Closing of the colloquium
12.00–13.00 Lunch (Hotel Presidentti, Restaurant Sevilla)