La USFQ será anfitriona de un encuentro científico internacional para rendir homenaje a Humboldt

jueves, agosto 1, 2019

Hace dos siglos, Alexander von Humboldt exploró las relaciones entre geología, ecología y diversidad. El congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de Biogeografía y el Segundo Congreso Latinoamericano de Biogeografía celebran el aniversario 250 de su nacimiento, así como su legado

Tiempo de lectura: 4 minutos

Las Universidades San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) e IKIAM, la Sociedad Internacional de Biogeografía y la Red Latinoamericana de Biogeografía organizan un encuentro científico internacional para rendir homenaje a Alexander von Humboldt, por los 250 años de su natalicio, con la muestra de las investigaciones más recientes que explican la distribución de plantas y animales en el mundo, así como sus problemas de conservación.

El encuentro que se desarrollará del 5 al 9 de agosto en el campus de la Universidad San Francisco de Quito pretende explicar los patrones recurrentes en la naturaleza, además de ser un espacio para fomentar las interrelaciones entre científicos y estudiantes de todo el mundo.

Durante los 5 días del Congreso se abordarán temas relacionados con la ecología, medio ambiente, geología, fauna y flora, de todo el mundo, pero especialmente de los Andes, Amazonía y las Islas Galápagos.

En el encuentro estarán conferencistas como Naia Morueta-Holme, Brigitte Baptiste, Joana Meier, Andrew Crawford, Alberto Gómez Gutierrez, entre otros.

	TUESDAY, AUGUST 6th
9:00	Shakespeare Theater Registration-Coffee break
9:15
9:30
9:45
10:00	Shakespeare Theater Opening
10:15
10:30	Shakespeare Theater PLENARY TALK: Biotic changes on Chimborazo, the cradle of plant biogeography Naia Morueta-Holme
10:45
11:00
11:15	Walk to Main Campus
11:30
	Teatro Calderón de la Barca	Teatro Casa Blanca	Salón Azul	Maxwell 107
	Historical Biogeography	Island Biogeography	Biodiversity Patterns and Mainteinance	Functional Biogeography
11:45	Explosive diversification following continental colonizations by canids. Lucas Porto	Speciation of the genus Urosaurus in the Revillagigedo Archipelago. Juan Gutiérrez	The origin and assembly of the alpine biome in the Hengduan mountains. Wen-Na Ding	A synthesis of animal‐mediated seed dispersal of palms reveals distinct biogeographical differences in species interactions. Gabriel Muñoz
12:00	Environmental change: The extinction of Sparassodonta clade in South America. Kateryn Pino	Invasion dynamics of a specialist solitary bee and its effect on the pollination system of an endangered island herb. Brittany Harris	Geographic and environmental determinants of floristic structure in a biodiversity hotspot. Qin Li	Plant trait-environment dynamics challenge the Humboldtian view of nature during the Holocene. Pierre Gauzere
12:15	Long distance dispersal or dispersal through land bridges? — An integrated biogeographic study of Juglandaceae based on molecular and fossil evidence. Qiuyue Zhang	Extinction-driven changes in island communities: worldwide and in Mauritius and Krakatau. Julia Heinen	Dacryodes (Burseraceae): un género huérfano en América. María Cristina Martínez	Dialects in the high-frequency song of the Ecuadorian Hillstar. Fernanda Duque
12:30	Lunch break
	SYMPOSIUM: Architecs of Variation: How Climate and Physiology Shape Patterns of Biodiversity. Organized by Alisha Shah & Cameron Ghalambor	Island Biogeography	SYMPOSIUM: Geology and climate change as drivers of biodiversity and evolutionary processes in the Andes-Amazonian system. Organized by Carina Hoorn & Hanna Tuomisto	Conservation Biogeography
14:00	From Humboldt to Janzen; How latitude and mountains generate biodiversity. Cameron Ghalambor	Life-history evolution in contrived communities of invasive livebearing fishes in the Hawaiian Islands. Spencer Ingley	The tectonic evolution of the Northern Andes. Cristian Vallejo	Conservation priorities for Romerolagus diazi based on Species Distribution Models including biotic interactions. Luis José Aguirre López
14:15	Climate Variability and Thermal Tolerance in Aquatic Insects: Can they Stand the Heat? Alisha Shah	Fanged frogs reset expectations of terrestrial vertebrate evolutionary diversification in  an iconic island archipelago. Rafe Brown	Leaf-wax lipid biomarker paleoaltimetry and eco-hydrologic evolution of the south-central Andean Plateau (Puna). Alexander Rohrmann	Biogeographical insight into evolution of bird migration. Bela Arora
14:30	Stretched to the limits: field investigations to examine the predictive power of critical temperatures for understanding range shifts in amphibians. Alessandro Catenazzi	Narrow-range endemic ground beetles in Ecuadorian páramos: Towards a biogeography of Andean sky islands. Pierre Moret	Neogene climate, vegetation, and elevation history of the Central Andean Plateau. Camila Martínez Aguillón	Through the extinction filter: historical and contemporary patterns of vulnerability of the most extinction-prone bird family. Lucile Leveque
14:45	Effects of temperature variation along elevational gradients in the Andes: the case of a poison frog. Mónica Páez-Vacas	Diversification patterns of ground beetles and rove beetles from the highlands of Ecuador. Sofía Muñoz-Tobar	The elevational dance of the Andean high mountain biome in the Pleistocene arena. Suzette Flantua	Bioregionalization approaches for conservation: methods, biases, and their implications for Australian biodiversity. Cristian Montalvo-Mancheno
15:00	Can plant thermal tolerance evolve under climate change? A comparison of central and edge populations. Rachel Wooliver	Connecting spatial trophic ecology with processes of population differentiation and speciation in Galápagos marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). Timm Reinhardt.	Amazonian plant species distributions mapped by satellite. Hanna Tuomisto	The spatial and temporal dynamics of interspecific associations under global changes. Stanislas Rigal
15:15	Discussion	Use of drone and satellite images to map native and invasive vegetation distributions in island systems: the Galapagos Islands. Gonzalo Rivas-Torres	Explosive radiations of the Asteraceae in the Andes: a history of climate change, geology, isolation and reconnexion. Mauricio Diazgranados	Documentary Projection: Sky Islands, a time travel in the Andes Mountains. Catalina Giraldo
15:30	Coffee break
	Environmental Tolerance	SYMPOSIUM: Island Biogeography of the Antropocene. Organized by Gonzalo Rivas-Torres & Jaime Chaves	SYMPOSIUM: Geology and climate change as drivers of biodiversity and evolutionary processes in the Andes-Amazonian system. Organized by Carina Hoorn & Hanna Tuomisto	Conservation Biogeography
16:00	Are tropical thermal barriers ‘higher’ on the way up or down? Pol Pintanel	Common Denominators of Adaptive Radiation on Islands. Rosemary Gillespie	Topography, erosion, and biodiversification in continental freshwaters. James Albert	Evaluation of five taxa as surrogates in the Transmexican Volcanic Belt, Mexico. Tania Escalante
16:15	Thermal tolerance across latitudinal and elevational gradients in Neotropical plethodontid salamanders Sean Rovito	Isolation, Fragmentation, and Plant Endemism in the tropical Andes. Jens Mutke	Bird diversification and the evolution of Amazonian landscapes. Camila Ribas	New guidelines for ex situ conservation- integrating geography and genetics. Sean Hoban
16:30	Functional traits, climate and soil drive niche differences of Damburneya (Lauraceae) sympatric species in a Mexican tropical rain forest. Laura Giraldo-Kalil	Disease Ecology of Galapagos Birds and their Parasites. Patricia Parker	Discussion	Implicaciones biogeográficas espaciales para la evaluación de las categorías de amenaza: El caso de las ranas venenosas en Ecuador. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade
16:45	Polytolerance to abiotic stress and range filling in European and North American woody species. Giacomo Puglielli	Ecological and biogeographic patterns of the Scalesia (Asteraceae) endemic genus in Galapagos. Gonzalo Rivas-Torres		Diversificación altitudinal en el Bloque Norte de los Andes vista a través de múltiples taxa. Viviana Ayus
17:00	Elevational and microclimatic drivers of thermal tolerance in Andean Pristimantis frogs. Pol Pintanel	Discussion		Patrones de distribución de la diversidad alfa y beta de murciélagos en las regiones biogeográficas de Colombia: base para su conservación. Juranny Astorquiza