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)
