Registration is now open for the IBS Special Meeting on The Geography of Species Associations that will be held on Friday, November 15, 2013 through Sunday, November 17 in Montreal, Canada at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) located in the heart of downtown Montreal.
Note that we will be able to accommodate only up to 170 attendees so mark these days in your agenda and register as soon as possible. Meeting web site: http://ibsmontreal.webs.com Registration web site: http://www.regonline.com/nov2013montreal Contact the meeting hosts at [email protected] Recent advances in macroecology and macroevolution have contributed much to our understanding of the origin and distribution of biodiversity. At the same time, community ecology has been informed by the inclusion of more sophisticated null models and phylogenetic methods, providing new insights into community structure and function, as well as the processes driving species distributions and their patterns of co-occurrence and association. This special meeting of the International Biogeography Society will explore the intersection between these fields and how they have contributed to the study of biogeography. Program: The meeting will include 6 contributed oral and poster sessions, and two round tables organised around the following themes: - Biogeographic perspectives on ecosystem function and services - Deconstructing biodiversity - The geography of hyperdiverse and neglected organisms - Community assembly over evolutionary time scales We are also pleased to announce that four internationally renowned speakers will deliver keynote addresses: Mark McPeek (Dartmouth College) Nicholas Gotelli (University of Vermont) Pierre Legendre (University of Montreal) Rosemary Gillespie (UC Berkeley) We hope to see you in Montreal!
