Phylogeography and Conservation of Postglacial Relicts
from October 18th-20th, 2007 at the National Museum of Natural History (Luxembourg)

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Programme
continental species mediterranean species alpine species conservation biology

Thursday (October 18th, 2007)
credential registration at the CCRN starts at 14.00 
free entrance to the MNHN-Luxembourg for all participants from 14.00 on
Time Topic  Referent
18:45 Address of welcome Raymond Bausch, Jan Habel, Tania Walisch
19:00-
20:00
Phylogeography and Conservation of species John Avise (Keynote)
20:00-
23:30
Welcome party in the MNHN Luxembourg (with live music) Marc Meyer
Friday (October 19th, 2007)
09:00 Extra-Mediterranean refuges, post-glacial vegetation history and area dynamics in Eastern Europe Zoltan Varga (Keynote)
09:45 Relicts and speciation in neotropical butterflies James Mallet
10:05 The nematode genus Pristionchus as case model for Biogeography, Biodiversity and Species Interaction Matthias Herrmann
10:25 Conservation and management of the habitats of two relict butterflies in the Belgian Ardennes: Proclossiana eunomia and Lycaena helle Philippe Goffart, Camille Turlure
10:45 Coffee break & poster session
11:15 The Book of Invasions: Phylogeography of pygmy shrews (Sorex minutus) in Ireland and Europe Alan McDevitt, Victor Rambau, Tom J. Hayden, Glenn Yannic, Jeremy B. Searle
11:35 Living on the northern marging - effects on genetics and morphology in two Coenonympha butterflies Anna Lundhagen, Thomas Schmitt, Joachim Besold, Niklas Wahlberg, Sören, Nylin, Toomas Tammaru
11:55 Genetic admixture of palearctic and nearctic burbot lineages in northern North America Kathryn Elmer, Matthias Sanetra, Axel Meyer
12:15 Molecular and phytosociological insight into postglacial relicts Lathyrus pannonicus and Oxytropis pilosa Matthias Schlee, Guido Grimm, Markus Göker, Wilhelm Sauer, Vera Hemleben
12:35 Lunch break
14:30 What do we really know about the evolution of Mediterranean Amphibian communities? Michael Veith (Keynote)
15:15 Glacial relicts and post-glacial invasions of Central European reptiles Ulrich Joger
15:35 Cave species as postglacial relicts Ruxandra Bucur
15:55 The origin of the tortoises (Testudo marginata) introduced by man in Sardinia Mélanie Perez, Marie-Catherine Boisselier, Josie Lambourdičre, Soubzmaigne S, Sarah Samadi, Roger Bour
16:15 Coffee break & poster session
16:45 Diversification in the Mediterranean: A phylogeographic analysis of the genus Oedipoda, Latreille 1829 Axel Hochkirch, Yvonne Görzig
17:05 The postglacial colonisation of northern Europe - relics to relics Johan Michaux
17:25-
18:05
Tracing range shifts in the southern European mountain ranges: examples from arctic-alpine plants and from Androsace sect. Aretia (Primulaceae) Peter Schönswetter (Keynote)
Saturday (October 20th, 2007)
9:00 Biogeography and relict status of alpine species Thomas Schmitt (Keynote)
9:45 Multiple glacial refuges of unwinged ground beetles in Europe – molecular data support classical phylogeographic models Claudia Drees, Jan Habel, Werner Härdtle, Andrea Matern, Goddert von Oheimb, Thomas Reimann, Thorsten Assmann
10:05 Oviposition electivity in two co-occuring blue butterflies (Polyommatus eros and P. escheri) in subalpine pastures of the Spanish Pyrenees Thomas Fartmann
10:25 Relicts of the cold past – arctic-alpine disjunct arthropods in Europe Christoph Muster
10:45 Coffee break & poster session
11:15 Comparative phylogeography of two montane leaf beetles in Europe Patrick Mardulyn
11:35 What factors limit the habitat selection by alpine relic butterflies´ Genus Erebia in Sudetan Mts. (Czech Republic and Poland) Martin Konvicka, Thomas Schmitt, Jiri Benes
11:55 Phylogeographic analyses of a boreal-temperate ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete, Amanita muscaria, suggest multiple forest refugia in Alaska during the Last Glacial Maximum József Geml
12:15 ESUs, MUs and species concepts – how many species do we need? Alfried Vogler (Keynote)
13:00 Lunch break
14:30 The intriguing state of some postglacial relict plant populations reaching the northern border of their geographical range – conservation concepts Jan Cerovsky (Keynote)
15:15 Conservation genetics and phylogeography of the threatened Corsican and Barbary red deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus and C. e. barbarus) Frank E. Zachos, G. M. Hajji and S. S. Hmwe
15:35 Conservation of the grey bush cricket Platycleis albopunctata (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) under differing habitat conditions: implications from an individual-based model Eva Maria Griebeler
15:55 Differentiation between and within refugia; What does the genetics of relict species tell us about their conservation? Gabriel Nčve
16:15 Coffee break & poster session
16:45 Linking genetics and ecology: reconstructing the history of relic populations of Carabus variolosus Andrea Matern, Konjev Desender, Claudia Drees, Eva Gaublomme, Alfried Vogler, Thorsten Assmann
17:05 A new method for the estimate of the size of small isolated and threatened animal populations: the case of the relict Triturus alpestris inexpectatus in southern Italy Alain Dubois, Annemarie Ohler
17:25 Break
18:00-
19:00
Panel discussion: Conserving relict species for generations – under the impact of climate change Jan Cerovsky, James Mallet, John Avise, Thorsten Assmann
19:00 Parting words Jan Habel

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