Brown trout

Scottish Freshwater Group: 87th Meeting

The 87th meeting of the Scottish Freshwater Group took place on Thursday 27 October 2011. 

Talks were held in Lecture Theatre 2B and poster demonstrations in Laboratory 2B147, both in the Cottrell Building, University of Stirling.

Please find the agenda below. NB: Links to presentations where available in PDF below (large file sizes indicated). Please respect the relevant copyrights.

  09:30-10:00 Tea and Coffee
10.00 Chris Spray & Martin Muir: Welcome and introduction
10:05 Susan Cooksley (JHI): "Impacts on the freshwater pearl mussel in the River Dee [4.58MB, PDF]"
10:25 Kevin Wood (CEH): "Relative effects of herbivory and abiotic factors on submerged macrophyte abundance in a shallow river [0.5MB, PDF]"
10:45 Antoine Keruzoré (Stir): "The importance of lateral dynamics to aquatic vegetation in large rivers"
11:05 Hamish Moir (CBEC): "Restoring rivers: Scotland vs USA [1.67MB, PDF]"
  11:25-11:45 Tea and Coffee
11:45 Karen Mooney (Napier University): "Cyanotoxins in Irish lakes: Interactions with environmental factors and the invasive zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha [0.9MB, PDF]"
12:05 Andy Walker (Buckland Foundation): "Aspects of biodiversity in Scottish Charr and Brown trout [1.91MB, PDF]"
12:25 Willie Yeomans (Clyde River Foundation): "The paradox of ex-situ conservation: bullheads in Scotland [8.39MB, PDF] "
   
  12:45-13:45 Lunch & Poster Demonstrations: Emma Goodyer; Steve Addy; Susan Cooksley (Additional posters on the day are welcome).
   

Afternoon Session: Strategies for species conservation in a changing freshwater environment

Bringing together a group of experts from a range of organisations and backgrounds we hope to stimulate thought and discussion among Scotland's fresh water community as to the challenges and successes of conserving the many species which rely on our varied freshwater environments.

4.00 Meeting closes

The next meeting of the Scottish Freshwater Group will be on Thursday 5 April 2012.

To offer a talk or poster, please contact: Dr Laurence Carvalho, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Edinburgh), Bush Estate, Penicuik EH26 0QB. E-mail: laca@ceh.ac.uk 

Web: http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sci_programmes/Water/ScottishFreshwaterGroup.html

The Scottish Freshwater Group is organised by Laurence Carvalho, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), and hosted by David Gilvear of the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling.