BIOCHANGE Journal clubs are part of the lab’s training programme. We discuss (in English) published papers, manuscripts in preparation, and ideas that might turn into papers. If you would like to participate in our journal clubs please contact Mariana Munguía or Maria Triviño.
9th September 2009, 12h
Dr. Lauri Laanisto presents his PhD work on ‘The global relationship between plant diversity and habitat productivity’.
4th June 2009, 17h
Heini Kujala gives an introductory talk about the software Zonation for Spatial Conservation Planning.
1st June 2009, 16h
Beale, C. M., J. J. Lennon, and A. Gimona. 2008. Opening the climate envelope reveals no macroscale associations with climate in European birds. PNAS 105:14908-14912; and the four responses to that paper.
14th May 2009, 12h
Heini Kujala presents her PhD work on ‘Conservation planning in a changing climate’.
26th March 2009, 12h
McInerny, G.J.; Turner, J.R.G.; Wong, H.Y.; Travis, J.M.J. and Benton, T.G. (2009). How range shifts induced by climate change affect neutral evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 276, 1527–1534.
16th March 2009, 12h
Arponen, A.; Moilanen, A. and Ferrier, S. (2008). A successful community-level strategy for conservation prioritization. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45,1436-1445.
19th February 2009, 12h
Miller, T.E.; TerHorst, C.P. and Burns, J.H. (2009). The Ghost of Competition Present. American Naturalist, 173, 347–353.
26th November, 12h
Buckley, L.B. & Jetz, W. 2008. Linking global turnover of species and environments. PNAS, 17836-17841.
13th November, 12h
Ingelinn Aarnes presentation: Macrofossils, vegetation history & past climate change
30th October, 12h
Christian Hof presentaton: Phylogenetic signals in climatic similarity of the orld’s amphibians - linking ecological patterns and evolutionary processes
21st October, 17h30h
Beale, C.M., Lennon, J.J. & Gimona, A. 2008. Opening the climate envelope reveals no macroscale associations with climate in European birds. PNAS, 105:14908-14912.
9th June, 15h30
Munguía, M., Peterson A.T. & Sánchez-Cordero, V. 2008. Dispersal limitation and geographical distributions of mammal species. Journal of Biogeography. In press.
14th May, 12h00
Peterson, A.T., M. Papeş & J. Soberón. 2008. Rethinking receiver
operating characteristic analysis applications in ecological niche
modelling. Ecological Modelling 213: 63–72
11th April, 16h00
Pearman, P. B., Guisan, A., Broennimann, O. & Randin, C. F. 2008 Niche dynamics in space and time. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23, 149-158.
6th March, 16:00 h
Cagan, H.S., Schneider, S.H., Fay, J.P. & Loarie, S.R., 2008. Climate change, elevational range shifts and bird extinction. Conservation Biology, 22: 140-150.
12th February, 17h
Made, J. 1999. Intercontinental relationship Europe – Africa and the Indian Subcontinent in “The Miocene Land Mammals of Europe” (edited by G.E. Rössner & K. Heissig) Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil Ed., München.
J. Made will give a small introductory talk to the paper entitled “The Proboscidean Datum Event”.
22th January, 17h00
Saura, S. and Pascual-Hortal, L. 2006. A new habitat availability index to integrate connectivity in landscape conservation planning: Comparison with existing indices and application to a case study. Landscape and Urban Planning 83:91-103.
The connectivity (CONEFOR) software will also be briefly presented and discussed
22nd November, 17h30
Townsend Peterson, A. & Nyári, A.S. Ecological niche conservatism and the Pleistocene refugia in the thrush-like mourner, Shiffornis sp., in the neotropics. Evolution. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00258.x
10th December, 16h00
Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2006. Does niche conservatism promote speciation: a case study in North American salamanders. Evolution 60:2604-2621.
7th November, 14h30
Soberón 2007. Grinnellian and Eltonian niches and geographic distributions of species. Ecology Letters. doi:10.1111 /j.1461-0248.2007.01107.x
19th October, 17h00
Rangel et al. 2007. Species Richness and Evolutionary Niche Dynamics: A Spatial Pattern–Oriented Simulation Experiment. American Naturalist, 170: 602-616
28th June, 16h00
Stephens et al. 2007. Inference in ecology and evolution, TREE 2, 192-197.
Followed by presentation of Ruben G. Mateo from the “Real Jardin Botánico de Madrid” about: Ecological modelling: in the search for solutions
5th June, 16h00
Manthey & Box 2007. Realized climatic niches of deciduous trees: comparing western Eurasia and eastern North America. Journal of Biogeography 34, 1028–1040.
24th May, 16h00
Wiens et al. 2006. Evolutionary and ecological causes of the latitudinal diversity gradient in hylid frogs: treefrog trees unearth the roots of high tropical diversity. American Naturalist 168:579-596
9th May, 16h00
Jiménez-Valverde, et al. In review. Accounting for species abundance using presence absence predictive distribution models: an impossible task?
24th April, 15h30
Williams et al. 2007. Projected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100 AD. PNAS 104, 5738-5748
11th of April, 15h00
McPeek & Broan (2007) Clade Age and Not Diversification Rate Explains Species Richness among Animal Taxa. American Naturalist 169, E97-E106
Weir & Schluter (2007) The Latitudinal Gradient in Recent Speciation and Extinction Rates of Birds and Mammals. Science 5818, 1574 – 1576
