Biodiversity Hotspots - Evolution and Conservation

Biodiversity Hotspots - Evolution and Conservation
March 26-28, 2009 at the National Museum of Natural History (Luxembourg)

intro - programme - contact - accommodation - gallery - flyer - participants - abstracts

Programme

List of topics and speakers

islands

tropics

mountains

aquatic

refugia

conservation

Thursday (March 26th, 2009)
Time	Topic	Referent
18:45	Address of welcome	G. Bechet - MNHN Lux. (L) R. Bausch - FNR Lux. (L)
19:00- 20:00	Global biodiversity conservation: the critical role of hotspots	R. A. Mittermeier - Conservation International (USA)

20:00	Welcome party

Friday (March 27th, 2009)
09:00	Diversity and diversification in the islands of the Macaronesian region	B. Emerson - University East Anglia (UK)
09:30	Sulawesi, Island between the Realms: Biodiversity Research in Central Indonesia	A. Koch - Museum König (D)
09:50	Modelling the biodiversity of moths in the “Heart of Borneo”	J. Beck - University Basel (CH)
10:10	Amphibian hotspot Madagascar: species extinction risk through the chytrid fungus	S. Lötters - University Trier (D)
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	Tropical forest biodiversity: threats and solutions	N. Stork - University Melbourne (AU)
11:30	Responses of vertebrates to forest fragmentation in the Neotropics	D. Vetter et al. - University Freiburg (D)
11:50	Herbivore hotspots in the Mara region of Kenya in relation to land use and vegetation	N. Bhola - University Groningen (NL)
12:10	Floristic diversity of wild coffee forests in SW Ethiopia and implications for conservation	C. Schmitt - Institute of Forest and Env. Policy (D)
12:30	Lunch
14:30	Global change effects on alpine plant diversity	G. Grabherr - University Wien (A)
15:00	Centres of endemism of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in the Palaearctic high mountains	Z. Varga - University Debrecen (H)
15:20	Multiscale evolution of species range under changing climate	C. Parisod - University Oslo (N)
15:40	The Carpathian refugia in differentiation and speciation of aquatic Diptera: a case study	L. Ujvarosi & M. Balint - University Cluj (RO)
16:00	Coffee break
16:30	Patterns of biodiversity in a Mediterranean landscape: Effects of land use and modeled effects of climate change	T. Dayan - University Tel Aviv (ISR)
17:00- 19:00	Poster session

Saturday (March 28th, 2009)
09:00	New insights on explosive speciation and adaptive radiation of African cichlid fishes	C. Sturmbauer - University Graz (A)
09:30	Polychaeta associated with cold-water coral reefs in the Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean, with special emphasis on scale worms (Polynoidae)	D. Fiege & R. Barnich - Museum Senckenberg (D)
09:50	Microendemism and environmental variability in the Malagasy biodiversity hotspot	B. Isambert - Imperial College London (UK)
10:10	Phylogeography and conservation genetics of the Iberian three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)	M. Vila et al. - University Coruna (ES)
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	Mediterranean peninsulas - the evolution of hotspots	G. Hewitt - University East Anglia (UK)
11:30	Species and genetic diversity in the Mediterranean: do the two levels of biodiversity correlates?	C. Conord - INRA Avignon (F)
11:50	European hotspots as evidenced by the Palearctic distribution of songbirds	R. Sluys - University Amsterdam (NL)
12:10	Expansion of passerine bird taxa in the northern Palearctic in the holocene	C. S.Roselaar - University Amsterdam (NL)
12:30	Lunch
14:30	Importance of biodiversity hotspot for species conservation : some examples in Europe and South East Asia	J. Michaux - INRA Montpellier (F)
15:00	Impacts of Biofuels on southeast asian biodiversity hotspots	L. P. Koh - ETH Zürich (CH)
15:20	Biodiversity Action Plans in Portugal’s Agroforestry Business	N. G. Oliveira - AmBioDiv - Valor Natural Lisbon (PO)
15:40	Phylogenetic diversity to reveal conservation priorities	M. Monzel - Saarbrücken (D)
16:00	Coffee break
16:30	Deep-Sea Biodiversity research	A. Brandt - University Hamburg (D)
17:30	Parting words