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Dear Xiaolei
Registration is now OPEN for the
6th Biennial Conference of the International
Biogeography Society
North Miami, Florida, USA - January
9-13th
The meeting is built around four successive SYMPOSIA (10th
& 11th January) each with a suite of
leading international scientists and *openings for
contributed papers*:
1. Island Biogeography: new
syntheses
(Organizers: Rob Whittaker &
Kostas Triantis).
2. Beyond Bergmann: new persectives on
the biogeography of traits
(Organizers: Adam C. Algar and Nathan G.
Swenson).
3. The convergence of conservation paleontology and
biogeography
(Organizers: Jenny McGuire &
Edward Davis).
4. Predicting species and biodiversity in a
warmer world: are we doing a good job?
(Organizers: Antoine Guisan & Niklaus E.
Zimmermann).
The meeting also has 12 sessions of
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS (12th January) on key topics:
i.
Island biogeography
ii. Neotropical
biogeography
iii. Climate-change biogeography
iv.
Conservation biogeography
v. Pre-quaternary paleoecology
and biogeography
vi. Quaternary
paleoecology
vii. Phylogeography
viii. Marine
biogeography
ix. Natural disturbance
biogeography
x. Global-scale biogeography
xi.
Hot topics in biogeography
Dr. Jim Brown will give a
keynote lecture after receiving the Alfred Russel Wallace
Award, recognizing his lifetime of outstanding contributions
to biogeography.
&
Dr. Miguel Araújo will give a keynote
lecture after receiving the Macarthur & Wilson Award, a new
award recognizing an early-research individual for a notable,
innovative contribution to biogeography.
In addition,
before the meeting, on the 9th of January, five WORKSHOPS will
be held: Biodiversity Informatics Training, Biogeography of
Stress, Communicating Biogeography, Popular Science Writing, &
an Introduction to Bayesian Statistical Analysis.
On the
9th & 13th of January, arranged FIELD EXCURSIONS will visit a
number of Florida's beautiful biogeographic
locations.
Check out the IBS meeting website for more
details and to register (http://www.biogeography.org/html/Meetings/2013/index.html)
Hope
to see you there!
Karen Faller
IBS Membership
Services
Dan
Gavin
VP Conferences
Ken Feeley
Local
Host
(NB. Registration fees are higher for Non-IBS
members. If you need to update your membership before
registering, please follow this Link)
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Biogeography Society
P.O. Box 476
Charleston, SC
29402
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