| Wednesday, 25th May |
| 09:00 |
Conference Registration |
| 10:00 |
Introduction and welcome
Dr
Noel Culleton (Head of Crops Environment
and Land Use Programme, Teagasc) |
| 10:10 |
Keynote address:
The Burren Farming for Conservation
Programme: lessons learned and progress to
date (10.6MB, PDF format)
Dr
Sharon Parr (Burren Farming for
Conservation Programme) |
| 10:50 |
Agri-environmental policy perspectives of
the National Parks and Wildlife Service
(5.3MB, PDF format)
Dr Andy Bleasdale
(National Parks and Wildlife Service) |
| 11:10 |
Coffee |
| 11:40 |
Keynote
address: Arable management options in the UK
agri-environment scheme: the research behind
the options (7.1MB, PDF format)
Prof Nick Sotherton (Game & Wildlife
Conservation Trust, UK) |
| 12:20 |
Important areas of
plant diversity outside of designated areas:
where are they? (2.6MB, PDF format)
Dr Matthew Jebb (National Botanic
Gardens) |
| 12:40 |
A critical source
area approach to the development of
supplementary measures for high-status
waterbodies (1.9MB, PDF format)
Dr Donnacha Doody (Agri-Food and
Bioscience Institute) |
| 13:00 |
Panel Discussion |
| 13:20 |
Lunch |
| 14:20 |
Keynote
address: Environmental public goods and the
post-2013 CAP (1.5MB, PDF format)
Dr David Baldock (Institute for European
Environmental Policy, UK) |
| 15:00 |
Three minute poster presentations (1)
Learning to
improve agri-environmental schemes:
using experts’ judgements to assess the
environmental effectiveness of the Rural
Environment Protection Scheme
(585KB, PDF format)
Dr David Bourke
Halting
biodiversity loss: the potential of High
Nature Value farming in north-west
Ireland (792KB, PDF format)
Pamela Boyle
Upland
commonages in Connemara – can
biodiversity be used to inform
sustainable agri-environmental policy?
(443KB, PDF format)
Brendan Canning
Probability
of pollinator occurrence increases with
duration of AES participation and floral
diversity (499KB, PDF format)
Tim Carnus
Impact of
riparian vegetation structure on small
mammal communities (1.7MB, PDF
format)
Daire Ó hUallacháin
The National
Survey of Upland Habitats (2MB,
PDF format)
Dr Jennifer Roche
Development and
design of locally targeted HNV
programmes in Ireland – The Aran Islands
Case Study (3.6MB, PDF format)
Dr Patrick McGurn
|
| 15:30 |
Coffee and posters |
| 15:50 |
Keynote
address: HNV farming policy – progress
to-date & future challenges (11MB,
PDF format)
Dr Guy Beaufoy
(Ecological Consultant, Spain) |
| 16:30 |
The environmental
impact of REPS: lessons learned & future
prospects (677KB, PDF format)
Dr
John Finn (Teagasc) |
| 16:50 |
Invasive species
in Ireland (15MB, PDF format)
Dr
Noeleen Smyth (National Botanic Gardens) |
| 17:10 |
Summary and Panel Discussion
Prof Gerry Boyle, (Director Teagasc) |
| Thursday, 26th May |
| 09:00 |
Keynote address: Biodiversity options
in agri-environment schemes for more
intensive farmers
Dr Simon Mortimer
(The University of Reading) |
| 09:40 |
Improving floral
and invertebrate diversity in grassland
field margins (1.3MB, PDF format)
Ms Rochelle Fritch (Teagasc, University
College Dublin) |
| 10:00 |
What is the
conservation potential of grasslands on
lowland farms (7MB, PDF format)
Dr Caroline Sullivan (Humboldt State
University) |
| 10:20 |
High nature
value meadows: results from a national
grassland survey (5.6MB, PDF format)
Dr Jim Martin (Botanical Environmental &
Conservation Consultants) |
| 10:40 |
Coffee |
| 11:00 |
Keynote address:
Identification and distribution of HNV
farmland in Germany (1.7MB, PDF
format)
Mr Daniel Fuchs (PAN,
Germany) |
| 11:40 |
Habitats in
the Irish farmed landscape (2.7MB,
PDF format)
Dr Helen Sheridan
(University College Dublin) |
| 12:00 |
Pollinators and
pollination networks in Irish farmland:
implications for conservation of pollination
services (3.2MB, PDF format)
Dr
Jane Stout (Trinity College Dublin) |
| 12:20 |
Monitoring
previous agri-environment schemes in
Northern Ireland-a review (1.5MB,
PDF format)
Dr Jim McAdam (Agri-Food
and Bioscience Institute) |
| 12:40 |
Panel Discussion |
| 13:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 |
Keynote
address: Evidence-based selection of
catchments and measures for conservation and
recovery of freshwater pearl mussel
populations in Ireland (14.5MB, PDF
format)
Dr Evelyn Moorkens
(Ecological Consultant, Ireland) |
| 14:40 |
Three minute poster presentations (2)
Positive effects
of sown evenness on sward biomass across
three years, nitrogen application and
cutting intensity (483KB, PDF
format)
Tim Carnus
Can current
Irish riparian management practices
enhance ground beetle diversity?
(1.5MB, PDF format)
Donncha Madden
Hay meadow plant
communities on the Shannon Callows:
responses to summer flooding and changes
in management (5MB, PDF format)
Catriona Maher
Cessation of
grazing - the effects on land snail
communities in farmed grassland, scrub
and woodland habitats in the Burren
region in the west of Ireland
(2MB, PDF format)
Maria Long
HNV farming and the management of
upland biodiversity on the Iveragh
Peninsula, South Kerry
Dr Eileen O’Rourke
Floral
resources for bumblebees on Irish
farmland (1MB, PDF format)
Veronica Santorum
Agri-environment
management of grassland field margins
(1.8MB, PDF format)
Sharon Spratt
The food versus
fuel debate – what effect will replacing
traditional crops with Miscanthus x
giganteus have on farmland biodiversity?
(2.5MB, PDF format)
Dara Stanley
|
| 15:10 |
Coffee and posters |
| 15:30 |
The role of
habitat creation in the recovery of the
Irish grey partridge
Perdix perdix (1.4MB, PDF
format)
Mr Kieran Buckley (National
Parks and Wildlife Service) |
| 15:50 |
REPS and
farmland bird populations: results and
recommendations from the Farmland Birds
Project (1MB, PDF format)
Dr
Alex Copland (Birdwatch Ireland) |
