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Seminar Speaker: John Wiens [link]
Institution: Stony Brook University
Seminar Title: Integrating evolutionary biology and historical biogeography
Faculty or Student Contact: Thiago Rangel or Adam Wilson
Abstract
Historical biogeography uses a phylogenetic approach to help understand
biogeographic patterns. In recent decades, historical biogeography has
focused mostly on using phylogenies of organisms to reconstruct
phylogenies of geographic areas. In this talk, I will argue that
historical biogeography has a great deal to offer the fields of ecology
and evolution beyond trees for geographic regions. At the same time,
understanding biogeographic patterns also requires consideration of
ecological and evolutionary processes. I will try to illustrate the
potential benefits of integrating these disciplines, by focusing on three
major topics in evolution and ecology where the importance of historical
biogeography may not always be widely appreciated: speciation, patterns of
species richness, and the repeated evolution of morphological traits. Or,
to put it in SarahPalinSpeak: the talk is all about niche conservatism,
reducing taxes, diversity gradients, speciation, the trade sector,
diversification rates, geographic isolation, and, um, health care reform.
All of those things under the umbrella of historical biogeography and job
creation.
Thursday, 30 October 2008
| Time | Name | Room |
| 2:30pm | Thiago Rangel | TLS 375 |
| 3:00pm | Current Topics in EEB seminar | Bamford |
| 3:30pm | Preparing for seminar | |
| 4:00pm | Seminar | BSP 130 |
| 6:30pm | Dinner |
Friday, 31 October 2008
| Time | Name | Room |
| 8:30am | Rob Colwell | |
| 9:00am | Juan Carlos Villarreal | BIOPharm 314 |
| 9:30am | Bernard Goffinet | BioPharm 300 |
| 10:00am | Mark Urban | BioPharm 200A |
| 10:30am | Rachel Prunier | BioPharm 302 |
| 11:00am | Kentwood Wells | TLS 380 |
| 11:30am | Susan Herrick | TLS 379 |
| 12:00pm | Lunch with grad students |
