The SER2011 Scientific Program Committee is pleased to announce the following program for special sessions, symposia, and workshops for August 22-24, 2011.

Spotlighting Various Approaches to Ecological Restoration of Mangroves (Special Session)

Water and Peace: Creating a holistic perspective on the ecological and cultural restoration of the Tigris Euphrates watershed (Symposium)

How can we restore to maximise faunal recolonisation? Using trait- filter models to identify improvements to restoration practice (Symposium I)

Capacidades Organizacionales y Vinculos Institucionales Relacionados con la Conservacion (Special Session)

Game-Ranching and CBNRM: Grass- Roots Partners (Workshop)

Restauracion Ecologica en Paisajes Rurales (Symposium)

Geotherapy: Global Restoration to Stabilize CO2 and Climate (Special Session)

Ecosystem Services in Successional and Restored Tropical Forests (Symposium I)

Restoring Mesopotamia: Socio-economic Aspects of Cultural and Ecological Restoration (Symposium)

How can we restore to maximise faunal recolonisation? Using trait- filter models to identify improvements to restoration practice (Symposium II)

Tropical Fragile Ecosystems: Intricacies, Insights and Strategies (Symposium I)

Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration (Symposium)

An overview of the social, economic and ecological considerations for passive and active restoration in Latin America (Symposium)

Conectividad productiva: estrategia para restaurar paisajes ganaderos (Special Session)

Novel ecosystems: When and how do we intervene in the new ecological world order?

Techniques and tools for large- scale, long- term ecosystem programs that address cultural & economic agendas (Workshop)

Ecosystem Services in Successional and Restored Tropical Forests (Symposium II)

Tropical Fragile Ecosystems: Intricacies, Insights and Strategies (Symposium II)

Bridging the Science/Practice Gap and Re-establishing the Nature/Culture Link in Applied Restoration Projects (Special Session)

Can Restoration be taken to Ecologically Meaningful Scales: Case Studies of Coral Restoration (Symposium)

Marine protected areas: Perspectives from Northwestern Mexico, Puerto Morelos and California on MPAs as tools for restoration and the stakeholder processes used to design them (Symposium)

Advancing global conservation and restoration of bivalve reefs: a globally imperiled marine habitat (Special Session)

Win- Win Restoration: Projects that Benefit the Environment, Culture, Jobs & the Economy (Special Session)

Local knowledge and practice as inspiration for restoration design: Lessons from Mesoamerican forest-gardens (Symposium I)

Aquatic Restoration in Urban Areas (Special Session)

Roadmap to Restoring the Ecological Health of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP Oil Spill (Symposium I)

Book of Knowledge (Special Session)

Restauracion Ecologica de Areas Afectadas por Mineria Cielo Abierto (Symposium)

Sierra Sur de Oaxaca: Usos y costumbres y la participación comunitaria en la planeación del desarrollo sustentable (Special Session)

The nature and culture of post-industrial ecological restoration: challenges and possibilities (Special Session)

Raíces Mayas para la Rehabilitación de Selvas (Symposium I)

Land Restoration in Urban Areas (Special Session)

Roadmap to Restoring the Ecological Health of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP Oil Spill (Symposium II)

Local knowledge and practice as inspiration for restoration design: Lessons from Mesoamerican forest-gardens (Symposium II)

Communicating to a broader audience through story telling (Special Session)

Ecologia Humana y Restauracion Ecologica (Special Session)

The Art of Ecology: Transdisciplinary Research in Practice (Symposium)

Raíces Mayas para la Rehabilitación de Selvas: El cine como medio para conservar y promover el conocimiento ecológico tradicional (Symposium II)

Ecological restoration in protected areas from Ibero-America (Symposium)

Roadmap to Restoring the Ecological Health of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP Oil Spill (Symposium III)

Integrating community attitudes and ecological data (Symposium)

Native People: Restoration and Revitalization of Place and Culture (Special Session)

Indigenous ecosystem- based adaptation and community- based ecocultural restoration during rapid climate disruption (Special Session)

The Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact: linking biodiversity conservation and human well-being in a global hotspot (Symposium)

The advantage of evaluating ecosystem functions in restored sites (Symposium)

Coastal oil spills before and after the Deepwater Horizon: Integrating impact assessment with restoration (Symposium I)

Restoration Seed Banking – Seed Science to Meet the Challenge of Landscape Scale Restoration (Special Session)

Seed zones, climate change and utilization of native plants for ecological restoration (Special Session)

The Ecological Importance, Conservation, and Restoration of Oak Forests in the Americas (Symposium I)

Research for the ecological restoration of forests in Mexico: state of the art (Symposium I)

Ecological Restoration for Continental Conservation (Symposium)

Restoring biodiversity in the arid zone (Symposium)

Research for the ecological restoration of forests in Mexico: state of the art (Symposium II)

Merida: Coastal oil spills before and after the Deepwater Horizon: Integrating impact assessment with restoration (Symposium II)

Going Global with a Best Practice Approach to Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas (Symposium I)

State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources: Use of native species in biodiversity restoration and management (Workshop I)

Forest Restoration as a Dynamic Process: Concept and Application in Temperate Forests (Symposium)

Shooting at a moving target: Restoration ecology in a changing world (Symposium I)

Ecosystem Service Valuation Tools: Implications for Global Ecological Restoration and Sustainability (Special Session)

Genetic guidelines for functional, integrated and sustainable restored populations (Symposium)

Building Resilience during Restoration (Symposium)

Soil biodiversity and belowground processes key to successful restoration (Special Session)

Coastal oil spills before and after the Deepwater Horizon: Integrating impact assessment with restoration (Symposium III)

Going Global with a Best Practice Approach to Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas (Symposium II)

State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources: Use of native species in biodiversity restoration and management (Workshop II)

The Ecological Importance, Conservation, and Restoration of Oak Forests in the Americas (Symposium II)

Filling in the gaps: technical and political solutions to forest restoration in REDD + policies (Symposium)

Shooting at a moving target: Restoration ecology in a changing world (Symposium II)

Keeping Our Eyes Wide Open (Workshop)