WORLD CONFERENCE ON MARINE BIODIVERSITY
10.29.08 - Leído 27 veces. Enviar esta nota11-15 November, 2008
Valencia, Spain. Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning EU Network of Excellence Sustainable development
Topics
Bio Discovery (11 sessions)
1.1 Marine Biodiversity in Polar Regions
Chairs: Paul Renaud; Angelika Brandt; Michael Stoddart
1.2 Recent discoveries in Marine Biodiversity
Chairs: Graham Shimmield; Bhavani Narayanaswamy
1.3 Deep-sea and extreme environments: temporal and spatial patterns among species and ecosystems
Chairs: Pedro Martinez Arbizu; Andrew Gooday; Ana Colaco; Adrian Glover; Stefanie Keller
1.4 Discoveries from integrated data systems
Chairs: Ward Appeltans; Mark J. Costello; Edward Vanden Berghe
1.5 Open ocean pelagic and benthopelagic diversity: patterns and monitoring
Chairs: Odd Aksel Bergstad; Ann Bucklin; Tone Falkenhaug; Uwe Piatkowski
1.6 Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Vulnerability of Deep-Water Seamount and Chemosynthetic Ecosystems
Chairs: Tim Shank; Paul A. Tyler
1.7 Biodiversity of Deep Continental Margins: Local to Global Patterns and Processes
Chairs: Myriam Sibuet
1.8 Marine biogeography and comparative phylogeography: joining paleontologists, taxonomists, ecologists and geneticists
Chairs: Anne Chenuil; Filipe Alberto; Sophie Arnaud-Haond; Janine L. Olsen
1.9 The Coral Triangle: patterns and processes in marine species richness and habitat diversity
Chairs: Bert W. Hoeksema; Michael N. Dawson; Gustav Paulay; Annadel Cabanban
1.10 Patterns and drivers in the distribution of marine biodiversity: in homage to John Gray
Chairs: Paul Somerfield; Richard Warwick
1.11 The taxonomic component of marine biodiversity
Chairs: Geoff Boxshall; Christos Arvanitidis
Biodiversity and Ecofunction (5 sessions)
2.1 Coastal marine benthic biodiversity and ecosystem process under uncertain environmental futures
Chairs: Martin Solan; Dave Paterson; Dave Raffaelli; Piran White
2.2 Biodiversity & Ecosystem Shifts: Viewed from the Bottom Up
Chairs: John R. Dolan; Wiebe Kooistra
2.3 Ecosystem Functioning and Biodiversity Science in the Deep sea
Chairs: Inge Jonckheere; Françoise Gaill; Eva Ramirez-Llodra; Michail Yakimov; Christian Stenseth; Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi
2.4 Broad Scale Patterns And Sources Of Variation In Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Relationships
Chairs: Magda Vincx; Katja Philippart; Tasman Crowe; Steve Hawkins; Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi
2.5 Marine bioinvasions and ecosystem functioning
Chairs: Sergej Olenin; Anna Occhipinti Ambrogi; Stephan Gollasch
Biodiversity Change (3 sessions)
3.1 Assessing the consequences of large-scale biodiversity change
Chairs: Boris Worm; Heike K. Lotze
3.2 What lived in the oceans? Shifting baselines in time and space
Chairs: Bo Poulsen; Loren McClenachan; Andrew A. Rosenberg; Matthew McKenzie
3.3 Fish and fisheries: genes to global market
Chairs: Reinhold Hanel; Mikko Heino
Biodiversity and Society (4 sessions)
4.1 Biodiversity and bioprospecting: Ecological roles of marine natural products and biotechnological applications
Chairs: Adrianna Ianora; Angelo Fontana
4.2 Societal and Economic Benefits of Marine Biodiversity
Chairs: Juan Carlos Castilla; Lalit P. Chaudhari; Narendra Kumar Choudhary; Stefan Gelcich; Annette Kimmich; Carolyn Scheurle; Michalis Skourtos
4.3 Conserving Marine Biodiversity: Making Policy, Management Tools, and Scientific Knowledge Work Together
Chairs: Jake Rice; Heye Rumohr
4.4 Emerging paradigms in coastal research and related management and policy implications
Chairs: Natarajan Ishwaran; Patricio Bernal; Jerry Melillo; Maria-Lourdes Palomares
Consult the conference website for registration details:
www.marbef.org/worldconference
worldconference@marbef.org
