Join us on Wednesday, April 24, at 5 pm UTC for the Funk Lecture given by Barnabas Daru. Talk Title: "The biogeography of native botanical diversity in the age of humans" Barnabas Daru is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Stanford University. Research in his lab focuses on the broad patterns of plant [...]
Join us in welcoming the new board members for the International Biogeography Society (2024-2026)! President: Susanne Renner President elect: Toby Pennington Past president: Felisa Smith Secretary: Alexandra Muellner-Riehl Vice President for Development and Awards: Raimundo Real Gimenez Vice President for Conferences: Mark Costello Director at Large: Jenny McGuire Director at Large: Pablo A. Marquet Student-at-Large: [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin R. Shipley (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States) recipient of the International Biogeography Society’s 2024 Dissertation Award! Dissertation committee members: Jenny McGuire, Lin Jiang, Joseph Mendelson, Joel Kostka, and Brody Sandel. Chaired by Israel Borokini, IBS Student-at-large. The Geography, Ecology, and Evolution of Mammalian Endemism Synopsis Understanding how and [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Tom Matthews– recipient of the International Biogeography Society’s 2024 MacArthur & Wilson Award! Tom Matthews, a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Geogrphy of the University of Birmingham, specializes in global environmental change through macroecological, macroevolutionary, and biogeographical studies. He employs both theoretical and empirical approaches to explore macroecological [...]
TIBS Distinguished Fellow Award The International Biogeography Society is proud to announce the 2024 Distinguished Fellows! Fellows are chosen for their significant contributions to our scientific society's objectives via brilliance in basic research and great service to the area of biogeography. Biogeographers employ data and methodologies from many disciplines in the physical and [...]
The International Biogeography Society is looking for members of the abstract review committee for the upcoming TIBS meeting in Prague, Czechia. This committee is key in helping choose talk presentations for the sessions and has a great deal of relevance in shaping the meeting overall. Each reviewer will be responsible for ranking about [...]
The Distinguished Fellow award was established by the International Biogeography Society in 2021 to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions through excellence in basic research and exceptional service to the field of biogeography. Fellows are chosen every two years, and nominations for the January 2024 IBS meeting in Prague are due no later [...]
The MacArthur and Wilson Award was established by the International Biogeography Society to recognize an individual for a notable, innovative contribution to biogeography. This award targets comparatively early career investigators and targets recipients who have completed their PhD no more than 12 years before the deadline for nominations. The committee has some flexibility [...]
The Alfred Russel Wallace Award was established by the International Biogeography Society in 2004 to recognize an outstanding current research record and impact by an eminent scholar in any subdiscipline of biogeography. The award is made once every two years. The award will be presented at the IBS biennial meeting in Prague, Czech [...]
The International Biogeography Society seeks proposals for symposia for the 2024 Biennial Conference, 7-11 January, 2024 in Prague, Czech Republic.
