Biogeography ▪ Conservation ▪ Macroecology ▪ Modelling ▪ Planning

Events 2008

Course: Reserve Planning in the Tropics: Ecological and Social Needs and Consequences (RESPECT) Madagascar, 15 November to the 15 December 2008

Mar Cabeza is coordinating this course and will participate in the teaching

IBERIA GAP Project meeting, MNCN, Madrid (28 November 2008)

Miguel Araújo, Maria Triviño, Diogo Alagador, & Isaac Pozo will participate in this meeting
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Conference: “Efectos del cambio climático en zonas de montaña (paisaje y biodiversidad)”. Fundación Ecología y Desarrollo, Zaragoza, Spain (18 November 2008)

David Nogués will participate in this conference

2nd Meeting of the Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS’ BioDiscovery Programme, MNCN, Madrid, Spain (5-6 November 2008)

Miguel Araújo will host this meeting

LINC-G (CSIC-PUC) Workshop on ecological networks and climate change, Doñana, Sevilla, Spain (15-18 October 2008)

Miguel Araújo will participate in this workshop

Workshop: Towards an integrative approach for evaluating species’ distributional responses to rapid environmental change, MNCN, Madrid, Spain (23-24 October 2008)

Miguel Araújo and David Nogués-Bravo (the local host) will participate in this workshop.

CLIMEX Training course, MNCN, Madrid, Spain (2 sessions: 13-16 & 20-23 October 2008).

Darren Kriticos will give this course co-organised by the BIOCHANGE Lab

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World Conservation Congress, IUCN, Barcelona, Spain (5-9 October 2008).

Miguel Araújo will participate in this event

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25th EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria) Annual Conference, Antwerp Zoo, Belgium (16-20 September 2008)

Miguel Araújo was invited to give a keynote address for the official opening session of the meeting on “mitigating climate change impacts on biodiversity: the role of zoos and aquaria”

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Joint meeting of the European Ecological Federation (EURECO) and the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GFÖ), Leipzig, Germany (15-19 September 2008)

Christian Hof and Irina Levinsky are co-organising a session in this meeting, entitled ‘Macroecology and climate change – past, present and future’. David Nogués will give a key note address in this session entitled “Macroecology and Climate Change: Linking disciplines and scales”.

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V Congreso Español de Biogeografía, Malaga, Spain (9-12 September 2008)

Miguel Araújo will give a key note address

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LINC-G (CSIC-PUC) working group meeting on spatial rules for network analysis, Mallorca, Spain (18-25 August 2008)

Miguel Araújo organized this meeting jointly with Alex Ronzeveld

III Riederalp Workshop – Species Distribution Models in the Real-world, Riederalp, Switzerland (10-15 August 2008)

Miguel Araújo will participate in this workshop

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22nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Conservation Biology – Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA (13-17 July 2008)

Diogo Alagador will give an oral presentation on European protected areas conservation under climate change; research undertaken with Miguel Araújo, Mar Cabeza, David Nogués-Bravo amongst others.

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Official Event of the French Presidency of the EU: The European Union and its Overseas Entities Strategies to counter Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss, Reunion Island (07-11 July 2008)

Miguel Araújo was invited to participate

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XXIII International Congress of Entomology, Durban, South Africa (5-13 July 2008)

Mar Cabeza will give a talk

Metting of the Scientific Committe of the FBBVA/CSIC Portal on Climate Change, Mallorca, Spain (2-3 July

Miguel Araújo will participate

Thesis evaluation of Olivier Broennimann – University of Lausanne, Switzerland (26 June 2008)

Miguel Araújo will participate on the thesis evaluation

Seminar: Planning for species persistence under climate change – University of Lausanne, Switzerland (25 June 2008)

Miguel Araújo will give this seminar by invitation from Antoine Guisan

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ECOCHANGE work meeting – Grenoble, France (23-25 June 2008)

Miguel Araújo joins Wilfried Thuiller for a few days work

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Annual joint BIOCHANGE Lab + Copenhagen’ University Centre for Macroecology workshop, Monasterio San Juan de la Peña, Huesca, Spain (16-20 June 2008)

All BIOCHANGE lab members will participate together with members of the Centre for Macroecology at the University of Copenhagen and the special guests Prof. Rob Colwell and Prof. Rob Whittaker.

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Working group meeting: Climate change in the Barents region, Umeå, Sweden (10-15 June 2008)

Mar Cabeza will participate in this meeting

Seminar: Biodiversity conservation in a changing world – IMEDEA/CSIC, Esporles, Mallorca, Spain (2 June 2008)

Miguel Araújo will give this seminar by invitation of Carlos Duarte

Annual meeting of the International Lab on Global Change, CSIC-PUC, Mallorca, Spain (27 May – 1 June 2008)

Miguel Araújo will participate in the meeting

ECOCHANGE meeting – Cluj, Romania (19-23 May 2008)

Miguel Araújo will attend this meeting

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BIOIMPACTO technical meeting for software development – Madrid, Spain (13-16 May 2008)

Miguel Araújo, Alexandre Diniz-Filho, Thiago Rangel, Wilfried Thuiller, and David Nogués Bravo will participate in this meeting.

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II Workshop: Modelling species extinctions risk under climate change – National museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Madrid, Spain (7-11 April 2008)

Miguel Araújo hosts and organizes the workshop in conjunction with Resit Akcakaya and Richard Pearson

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International DanBIF Conference Biodiversity Informatics and Climate Change, Aarhus, Denmark (5-6 April 2008)

Miguel Araújo delivers a key note address to the conference on “Deep time perspectives on current biodiversity gradients”

David Nogués-Bravo, Irina Levinsky, and Christian Hof, present a poster each

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Biodiversity Research Seminar Series, Oxford University, Oxford, UK (8 March 2008)

David Nogués-Bravo will deliver a seminar on Climate Change, Humans and the Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth

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Working group: Current and past determinants of Western Palearctic biodiversity – NERC Centre for Population Biology in Silwood Park, Berkshire, UK (3-5 March 2008)

Miguel Araújo and David Nogués will participate in this working group

MACIS meeting – MNCN/CSIC, Madrid, Spain (19-21 February 2008)

Miguel Araújo will host this meeting

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Symposium on Climate Change and Mediterranean Mountains, RSEAP, Valencia, Spain (18 February 2008)

David Nogués-Bravo will deliver a key note address to the conference

ECOCHANGE working-group meeting on ABS modelling of biological systems, Edingburgh, UK (24-25 January 2008)

Miguel Araújo & Maria Triviño will attend this meeting

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Seminar: Can we predict climate change impacts on biodiversity? – American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (15 January 2008)

Miguel Araújo will deliver this seminar

IBS mid-term board meeting, Smithonian Institution, Washington DC, USA (11-13 January 2008)

Miguel Araújo will attend this meeting