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CAML and CeDAMar are hosting a workshop on benthic biodiversity in the Southern Ocean, trying to elucidate the factors driving it.
It will take place from 21 to 25 March 2010 at the German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB) Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
To the CAML and CeDAMar community
We would like to announce a workshop on:
“Southern Ocean benthic biodiversity and biogeography: What are the key spatial patterns in macro-and megabenthos and what drives them?”This workshop will be held at the German Centre of Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB) in Wilhelmshaven (Germany) from March 21st to March 25th 2010.
The aim of this workshop is to compare Southern Ocean biodiversity and distribution patterns across space, depth and taxonomic groups and to assess some of the ecological and evolutionary processes determining these. This includes the identification of the most appropriate model groups to examine patterns by assessment of expertise, capacity and funding for work. The workshop will bring together scientists (biologists as well as geophysicists and oceanographers) using similar sampling devices (with particular focus on the epibenthic sledge) to both present cutting edge findings and discuss what to see as the current key strengths and gaps in associated benthic biodiversity and biogeography research.
The workshop will be strongly discussion driven. This workshop is funded by the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML), the German Science Foundation (DFG) and the Census of Abyssal Marine Life (CeDAMar).
Key topics
- Changes in biodiversity and composition along a depth gradient (shelf to abyss) and across spatial and temporal scales
a) Faunal linkages of the West-Antarctic continental shelf, slope and abyss: implications for colonisation processes following the last glacial maximum?
b) Potential environmental parameters shaping biodiversity structure across depths and region
- Evaluation of species’ geographic and bathymetric ranges
a) Eurybathy and “circum-Antarctic” distribution (morphology, phylogeography)
b) The problem of putatively undescribed species in biogeography
- New approaches
a) Measuring and quantifying biodiversity
b) Spatial resolution and replicate sampling
Organiser: Dr. Stefanie Kaiser (University of Hamburg, UHH)
Co-organisers: Dr. Saskia Brix (DZMB, Hamburg) and Dr. Simone N. Brandão (UHH)
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