Biogeography, Changing Climates and Niche Evolution

Organized by David Wake, Elizabeth Hadly and David Ackerly
December 12-13, 2008
Irvine, CA

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Program - Tentative Agenda
Thursday, December 11
5:30 pm  Welcome Reception - Beckman Center

7:00 pm   Distinctive Voices Public Lecture
                Steve Palumbi (Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station)
                Back to Life: How Monterey Bay was Restored to Health

8:30 pm   Dessert

Friday, December 12

6:45 and
7:15 am Buses depart Marriott Hotel for Beckman Center

7:00 8:00  Registration Atrium
  Breakfast Dining Room

Session 1: Organisms, Geography, Climate and Evolution: Homage to Joseph Grinnell
8:00-8:20 am Opening Remarks and Session Chair David Wake

8:20-9:10 The Grinnellian niche: species distribution in space and time. Craig Moritz (University of California at Berkeley)
 
9:10-10:00 Grinnell's niche concept and its impact. Jorge  Soberon (University of Kansas)

10:00-10:20 Break

10:20-11:10 Hutchinson's duality: the once and future niche. Robert Colwell (University of Connecticut)
 
11:10-12:00 Metabolic theory, ecology, and biogeography. James Brown (University of New Mexico)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

Session 2: The Distribution of Organisms and Their Niches
Session Chair Elizabeth Hadly

1:30-2:20 Niches, landscapes, and global change. John A. Wiens (PRBO conservation Science)
 
2:20-3:10 Ecological theory of niches in broad perspective. Robert Holt (University of Florida)
 
3:10-3:30 Break

3:30-4:20 Biophysical ecology of niches. Warren Porter (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
 
4:20-5:10 Niche Evolution, coexistence and the assembly of regional biota. David Ackerly (University of California at Berkeley)

5:10-6:15 Reception - Atrium

6:15-7:30 Dinner - Dining Room

Beckman Center Auditorium

7:30-8:30 Keynote Speaker The Future of Our Oceans, Steven Palumbi (Stanford University)

8:45 pm Buses depart Beckman Center for Marriott Hotel

Saturday, December 13, 2008
6:45 and
7:15 am Buses depart Marriott Hotel for Beckman Center

7:00-8:00 Breakfast Dining Room

Session 3:  Niche Evolution and Changing Environments
Session Chair David Ackerly

8:00-8:50 Niche conservation above the species-level.  Elizabeth Hadly (Stanford University)
 
8:50-9:40 Environmental texture through time and its ecological consequences.  Stephen T. Jackson (University of Wyoming)
 
9:40-10:00 Break

10:00-10:50 Species facing range limits.  Amy Angert (Colorado State University)
 
10:50-11:40 Retrospective niche modeling, historical stability and phylogenetic reconstruction.  David Vieites (University of California at Berkeley)

11:40-12:45 Lunch Dining Room

Session 4:  Climate Change and its Prospects
Session Chair Elizabeth Hadly
 
12:45-1:35  Variation in niches through space and time: a community perspective.  Catherine Graham (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
 
1:35-2:25 Forecasting biodiversity and ecosystem changes. Niklaus E. Zimmerman (Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL)

2:25-2:45 Break
 
2:45-3:35 Biotic response to recent rapid climate change.  W. E. Bradshaw (University of Oregon)
 
3:35-4:25 Niche breadth and sensitivity to climate change.  Steve Williams (James Cook University, Townsville, Australia)

4:25-4:45 Closing Remarks David Wake

5:00 pm Buses depart Beckman Center for John Wayne Airport and Marriott Hotel