Biogeography ▪ Conservation ▪ Macroecology ▪ Modelling ▪ Planning

Events 2006

2nd EUROMONT Workshop – Lausanne, Switzerland (17-22 December 2006)

Miguel Araújo and David Nogués were invited to participate in the working group that will write a paper on climate change impacts on Alpine environments.

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International conference “Biodiversity Conservation – from Genes to Habitats” – Davos, Switzerland (23-24 November 2006)

Joaquín Hortal was invited to give a seminar, co-authored by Miguel Araújo, on the “The lack of biodiversity data and the value of surrogates”.

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MACIS Kickoff meeting – Lund, Sweden (13-15 November 2006)

Diogo Alagador was invited to join the meeting on behalf of Miguel Araújo who was not be able to go.

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Ecological Networks Workshop – Imperial College, London, UK (23-27 October 2006).

Diogo Alagador was invited to attend in the context of a collaboration that also involves Miguel Araújo and Rob J. Whittaker.

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Audition on Climate Change at the Parliament of the Portuguese Republic – Lisbon, Portugal (10 October 2006).

Miguel Araújo was invited to give a talk to the MPs about climate change impacts on European biodiversity.

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1st European Congress of Conservation Biology – Eger, Hungary (22-26 August 2006)

Miguel Araújo was co-autor of an oral presentation by Ralf Ohlemuller (University of York) on “Indicators of extinction risk from climate change”.

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Diogo Alagador presented an oral communication on “The design of spatially-explicit reserve networks for conservation”.

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Workshop on “Macroecological Tools for Global Change Research” – Postdam, Germany (21-23 August 2006)

Joaquín Hortal presented a poster on the “broad-extent effects on the species richness of mammal communities”.

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ISOBIS/GBIF/NordForsk PhD Summer School in Biodiversity Informatics – Sønderborg, Denmark (13-20 August 2006)

Miguel Araújo was invited to give a seminar on “Modelling impacts of climate change on species distributions”.

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DIVERSITAS/GMBA/SCOPE Altitude referenced biological databases – a tool for understanding mountain biodiversity – Kazbegi, Georgia (23-31 July 2006)

David Nogués was invited to give a seminar on the “Use of data-mining to study and protect biological diversity in the Pyrenees”.

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1st EUROMONT Workshop – Lausanne, Switzerland (April 10-13)

David Nogués was invited to give a seminar on “Climate change impact assessment on alpine flora: the case of Spanish Pyrenean herbarium dataset”

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GBIF/DANBIF Conference on Biodiversity at the Ecosystem Level – Aarhus, Denmark (April 26-27)

Joaquin Hortal presented a poster on the “Use of ecosystem approaches to conservation”.

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The Third Okazaki Biology Conference: The Biology of Extinction 2 – Okasaki, Japan (12-17 March 2006)

Miguel Araújo was invited to give a seminar on “Uncertainty in projections of extinction risk from climate change”.

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