Dear colleague,
There are still some places available for the course "HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY:
FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS", June 15-19, 2015.
INSTRUCTORS: Dr. Lone Aagesen (IBODA, CONICET, Argentina) and Dr. Claudia A.
Szumik (Miguel Lillo Foundation, CONICET, Argentina).
PLACE: Facilities of the Centre of Restauració i Interpretació Paleontologica,
Els Hostalets de Pierola, Barcelona (Spain).
WEBPAGE AND REGISTRATION:
http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/biog/historic-biogeography/
PROGRAM:
Topic 1. Historical Background:
- The connection to cladistics. Basic concepts of cladistic methods. Optimality
criteria in systematics and its connection to biogeography. How to manage space.
Topic 2. Raw Data:
- Distribution maps. Errors in databases. Georeferencing and how to measure the
error of data points.
Topic 3. Areas of Endemism:
- Basic concepts. Formal and informal approaches to identify areas of endemism.
The importance of quantitative methods and how different methods relate to what
is being evaluated.
- Optimality criterion in analyses of endemicity. Some suggestions for renaming
the concept of areas of endemism. The need for a zero model. Introduction to the
programs NDM/VNDM (Identification of endemism areas). Optimality, ambiguity,
support, consensus in the framework of areas of endemism.
Topcic 4. Vicariance Events:
- Distinguishing between studying the history of taxa and studying the history
of earth. Short review of different approaches for studying taxon history
(ancestral areas, Diva, Brooks parsimony analysis, coevolution).
- Short review of different approaches for studying the history of earth (Brooks
parsimony analysis, principal components).
- Hovenkamp’s critique of historical biogeography and his suggestions for
improvement. The importance of implementing a spatial component. Optimality
criterion for identifying potential barriers. Optimality, ambiguity, support,
and consensus in the framework of vicariance events.
Software available at http://www.lillo.org.ar/phylogeny/.
Organized by: Transmitting Science, the Institut Catalá de Paleontologia Miquel
Crusafont and the Centre de Restauració i Interpretació Paleontologica de Els
Hostalets de Pierola.
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consider it appropriate.
With best regards
Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD.
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Transmitting Science
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