8:00 AM: Jax, Kurt^{*,1, 2}, Berghöfer, Uta^{1, 2}, Schüttler, Elke¹, Fistric, Sanja¹, Rozzi, Ricardo^{2, 3}, ¹ UFZ-Environmental Research Centre Leipzig-Halle, Leipzig, Germany² Omora Foundation, Puerto Williams, Chile³ University of North Texas, Denton, USA, Images of nature and maps: Translating people's perception of biodiversity and scientific knowledge.

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8:20 AM: Stevens, Michelle^*,, Miralles-Wilhelm, Fernando², Crisman, Thomas², ² Iraq AWARE, Miami, Florida, USA, Eco-cultural restoration of the Mesopotamian Marshes.

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8:40 AM: Telfer, Wendy^*,1, Garde, Murray¹, ¹ Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, Ethnoecological knowledge of the rock kangaroos of western Arnhem Land, Australia.

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9:00 AM: Audet, Christen ^{*,1, 3, 4}, Epp, Gary^{*,2, 5}, ¹ Gartner Lee Ltée, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada³ ENGREF (National rural, water and forest engineering school), Paris, 75732 CEDEX 15, France⁴ INRA (National Agronomy Research Institute), Ivry-sur-Seine, 94205 CEDEX, France² Earth Tech Canada, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada⁵ International Association for Impact Assessment, Fargo, ND 58103, USA, Ecological impact studies in the Bahamas: using social sciences to fill in the knowledge gaps.

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9:20 AM: Arce, Javier^*,1, Padoch, Christine^*,2, ¹ Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, New York, NY² Institute of Economic Botany, Bronx, NY, Oral history in the analysis of landscape change: An Amazonian Case Study.

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9:50 AM: NIQUE- ALVAREZ, MANUEL¹, GAMARRA-TORRES, OSCAR^*,1, ¹ Universidad Nacional Agraria de la Selva, Tingo Maria, PERU, Conservation of the wetland Los Milagros as a local conservation area in the high jungle of Peru.

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10:10 AM: Dalle, Sarah^*,1, de Blois, Sylvie¹, Caballero, Javier², Johns, Timothy¹, ¹ Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada² Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico, Integrating understanding of ecological and social processes in community forest management.

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10:30 AM: Camilo, Gerardo^*,, Henry, Rachel, Caruso, Nick, , Spatial hunting distribution in the Mayangna Sauni Bu territory in the BOSAWAS Bioreserve, Nicaragua.

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10:50 AM: Lugo, Aurora^*,, Camilo, Gerardo, , Land use, environmental gradients and vegetation biodiversity patterns in the BOSAWAS Bioreserve, Nicaragua.

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11:10 AM: Ghosh, Subir ¹, ¹ Centre for Sustainable Living, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Wetland cropping-a challenging alternative to agriculture : Case Studies from the Eastern India.

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