sessions


Session 3

Session 3 (P.M.): Ecology and Habitat
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Chair: Lotta Kvarnemo
2:00–3:00 p.m.



Keynote Speaker
Needles, haystacks and syngnathids: searching for small, cryptic fish in a vast ocean world
Heather Masonjones, University of Tampa, USA
3:00–3:20 p.m.


Mating in space: amplifier for the outbreak of snake pipefish
Matthias Kloppmann, Cindy van Damme, Jens Ulleweit, Chris Lynam, Doug Beare, Bram Couperus
3:20–3:40 p.m.



Impact of environmental change on reproductive behaviours in Syngnathus typhle and Nerophis ophidion
Josefin Sundin
, Gunilla Rosenqvist, Tonje Aronsen,
Anders Berglund
3:40–4:00 p.m. TEA BREAK
4:00–4:20 p.m.



Can artificial holdfast units work as a habitat restoration tool for long-snouted seahorse, Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier?
Miguel Correia, Jorge Palma, Heather Koldewey,
José Pedro Andrade
4:20–4:40 p.m.


New approach to trace seahorse feeding ecology: application of stable isotope analysis
Sonia Valladares
, Francesca Rossi, Miquel Planas
4:40–5:00 p.m.



Ecophysiological and behavioral responses of temperate
seahorses (Hippocampus guttulatus) to global warming
Vanessa Madeira
, Filipa Faleiro, Maria Aurélio, Marta Pimentel, Luis Narciso, Rui Rosa
5:00–5:20 p.m.




Spatial and seasonal patterns of European short-snouted seahorse Hippocampus hippocampus populations in Canary island environments
Francisco Otero-Ferrer, Rogelio Herrera, Víctor Tuset, Juan Socorro, Lucía Molina