Programme

Sept. 19 - The way we were

10:30 - Registration

14:30 - Opening Session - ANF C

15:00 - Paulyn Cartwright:
"The origin and diversification of life's earliest metazoans" - ANF C

16:00 - Brian Morton:
"Charles Darwin and the evolution of the Atlantic Ocean the Açores" - ANF C

17:00 - Departure to Furnas

18:30 - Ice Breaker by the Hot Springs Bus to Furnas

Sept. 20 - The dynamics of colonization

09:30 - Peter Grant & Rosemary Grant
"Colonization of islands" - ANF C

10:30 -Jeremy McNeil
"Studying the cost of migration: A comparison of Mythimna unipuncta populations from Canada and the Azores."

11:00 - coffee-break - ANF C atrium

11:15 - Pedro Cardoso, M.A. Arnedo, K.A. Triantis & P.A.V. Borges
"Diversity drivers of macaronesian spiders and the role of species extinctions" - ANF C

Tiago Rodrigues, S.V. Drovetski, R.M. Zink, V. Neves & D. Gonçalves
"Could competitive exclusion among closely related colonists play a role in constraining island biodiversity?" - ANF C

Luís Silva & C. Daheler
"Are biogeographic factors affecting indigenous and non-indigenous island floras the same?" - ANF C

C.J. Moura, F.M. Porteiro, N.E. Peralta, M.R. Cunha & A.D. Rogers
"Cryptic biodiversity, phylogeographical and evolutionary patterns of shallow and deep-water Nemertesia (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the north-eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean" - ANF C

12:45 - lunch

14:00 - Paulo Borges
"Patterns of colonization and dispersal in Azorean arthropods: diversification, rarity and extinction" - ANF C

14:30 - M. Leonardo & M.F. Medeiros
"Preliminary data about the breeding cycle and diurnal activity of the Azorean bat (Nyctalus azoreum)" - ANF C

Manuela I. Parente, F.O. Costa & G.W. Saunders
"Assessing biodiversity of Azorean brown algae under a molecular lens" - ANF C

Daniela Gabriel, A.I. Neto & S. Fredericq
"Biodiversity of the Nemastomatales (Rhodophyta): new insights and future perspectives" - ANF C

Rosalina Gabriel
"Azorean Rare Bryophytes: Ecological Preferences and Distribution" - ANF C

15:30 - coffee-break - ANF C atrium

15:45 - NEW BOOKS:

Azores - A Natural Portrait
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop of Malacology and Marine Biology
Posters Session

17:30 - Departure to Lagoa

18:00 - Inauguration of the Exhibit The Trail of Life- ExpoLab Lagoa

Sept. 21 - The dynamics of evolution

09:30 - Bruce Lieberman
"Macroevolution and Paleontology: Expanding Darwinism" - ANF C

10:30 - A. Frias Martins
"When the finches are snails" - ANF C

11:00 - coffee-break - ANF C atrium

11:15 - Paula Aguiar
"Living fossils among us?" - ANF C

11:35 - José A.P. Marcelino, R. Giordano, F. Soto-Adames, P. Garcia, R. Resendes, L. Silva, E. Weber & A.O. Soares
"Unobserved diversity in Darwin's appraisal of the Azores" - ANF C

Luís Silva Rui Elias, Mónica Moura & Eduardo Dias
"Intraspecific variation, the raw material for evolution: the example of the Azorean Juniper" - ANF C

A. Chorão, S.V. Drovetski, S.J.M. Davis, R. Godinho & D. Gonçalves
"Some morphological and molecular evidence for speciation in the Azorean quail (Coturnix c. conturbans)" - ANF C

12:35 - lunch

14:00 - Thierry Backeljau
"Evolution alive and kicking... or how Azorean endemic snails fooled taxonomy"

14:30 - Gonçalo Calado & J. Cruz
"Testing Vermeij's Hypothesis - contributions from the NE Atlantic" - ANF C

Pedro Raposeiro, A.C. Costa, S.J. Hughes & V. Gonçalves
"Azorean lotic systems biodiversity and conservation: targets for environmental management" - ANF C

15:00 - coffee-break - ANF C atrium

15:30 - Darwin and Society - Eugenie C. Scott, M. Patrão Neves, A. Frias Martins, André Levy, Helena Abreu, Magda Costa Carvalho:
"Evolution is fundamental. Why is it so controversial?"(Discussion forum, open to a broader audience and participation)
ANF C

Sept. 22 - The dynamics of conservation

09:30 - Rosemary Grant & Peter Grant
"Evolution of Darwin's Finches"

10:30 - Joaquim Teodósio
"Priolo, the finch that Darwin missed"

11:00 - coffee-break - ANF C atrium

11:15 - Helena Calado & A. Gil
"SMARTPARKS - new concepts on nature conservation and management"

Pedro Rodrigues & R. Tristão da Cunha
"Azorean birds - a natural heritage"

Mónica Martins, Luís Silva, Mónica Moura, Graciete Maciel, Rodolfo Corvelo
"Azorean vascular plants: threats and conservation challenges"

Sérgio P. Ávila
"The economical value of the fossils of Santa Maria Island: 10 years of research"

Andrea Z. Botelho, A.C. Costa & H. Calado
"Biodiversity, Conservation and Marine Spatial planning"

12:30 - Closing session

20:00 - Dinner