3rd Biennial Conference of IBS:  9-13 January 2007

The 3rd biennial conference of IBS was held in the Canary Islands on the island of Tenerife.  Tenerife is situated in the Atlantic ocean about 200 miles off the West African coast and is an autonomous region of Spain.  At just over 2000 square kilometres, it is the largest of the seven main Canary Islands.   Overview Map

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ABSTRACTS of the conference are available to download as Adobe Acrobat pdf files:
You may download the ENTIRE PROGRAM as one large file (11 MB) here:
IBS Abstracts 2007 combined.pdf

or you may download it in 4 smaller pieces (2.25 - 3.58 MB) here:
IBS Abstracts 2007 (1).pdf
IBS Abstracts 2007 (2).pdf
IBS Abstracts 2007 (3).pdf
IBS Abstracts 2007 (4).pdf

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List of Workshops & Panel discussions:

Option One: Workshop on Spatial Analysis in Macroecology
Organizers: Richard Field & Lindsay Banin; led by José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho & Thiago Fernando L. V. B. Rangel

Option Two: Workshop on Popular Science Writing for Scientists
Organizers: Robert Whittaker, George Stevens

Panel Discussion: Biogeography in the Public Eye
Organizers: Robert Whittaker, George Stevens

List of Symposia:

An integrative view of ecogeographic "rules"
organizers: Lomolino, Sax
Plenary speakers were: Kevin Gaston, Brian McNab, Maria Rita Palombo, R. (Bob) McDowall, Dawn Kaufman

Quaternary Impacts on Holarctic Biogeography
organizers: Douglas, Douglas
Plenary speakers were: Kathy Willis, Pierre Taberlet, Donatella Magri, Michael Douglas, Marlis Douglas, Godfrey Hewitt

Island Biogeography:
organizers: Fernandez-Palacios, Whittaker
Plenary speakers were: Vicki Funk, Robert Ricklefs, Isabel Sanmartin, Brent Emerson, Jacques Blondel

Maritime connectivity: reconciling models of dispersal and vicariance with evidence of biogeographic structure in a continuous environment
organizers: Wares, Faucci, Dawson
Plenary speakers were: Michael Dawson, Kate Darling, Chris Meyer, Jonathan Waters, Christine Maggs, David Bellwood

Separating historical from environmental effects on species distributions
organizers: Jetz, Rahbek
Plenary speakers were: Jens-Christian Svenning, Miguel Araujo, Carsten Rahbek, Walter Jetz, Catherine Graham, Mike Donoghue

13 January - Field excursions:

Teide National Park - click here for more information

Teno peninsula - click here for more information

 

IBS 2007 Photo Tour - coming soon

We invite any IBS member who is interested in nominating a location for future conferences to contact David J. Hafner (david.hafner@state.nm.us), the V.P. for Conferences and provide a brief overview describing the location and facilities available.  

Many thanks to our gracious sponsors:

   Blackwell Publishing


   Oxford University Press

Cabildo Insular de Tenerife


Ayuntamiento del Puerto de la Cruz

  
 The 3rd Biennial Conference of IBS has been endorsed by the Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning EU Network of Excellence (MarBEF).  MarBEF is funded by the European Union within the Sustainable development, global change and ecosystems RTD Programme. Contract no. GOCE-CT-2003-505446 2004-2009.

 

  
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