Symposium: Diversification process in dynamic landscapes
Program
8:50 Catherine Badgley, Introduction
Part 1: Landscape history—tectonics and climate (Brian Yanites moderator)
9:00 Brian Yanites, Indiana University: From mountains to molehills: quantifying changes in topography and implications for habitat fragmentation and connectivity
9:20 Ali Bahadori and Bill Holt, Stonybrook University: How western North America evolved
since the Oligocene: From North American Cordillera to Basin and Range
9:40 Ran Feng, University of Connecticut, Paleoclimate simulations for western North
America
10:00 Discussion
10:30 Break
Part 2, Phylogeography and landscape genetics (Rebecca Terry moderator)
10:40 Brett Riddle, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Three decades of rodent phylogeography and biogeography in western North America
11:00 Tereza Jezkova, Miami University, Ohio: Range shifts, niche shifts, and genetic consequences of species responses to climate change
11:20 Marjorie Matocq, University of Nevada, Reno: Landscape genetics of small mammals
11:40 Discussion
12:10 Lunch (catered)
Part 3, Rodent diversification and biogeography (Tara Smiley moderator)
1:15 Tara Smiley, Oregon State University, Mountains and mammals: insights from
Neogene and modern biogeography of rodents
1: 35 Miriam Zelditch, University of Michigan, Scaling components of biodiversity of squirrels across lineages and regions
1:55 Adolfo Pacheco, National Autonomous University of Mexcio, Mexican rodents of the late Neogene: influence of tectonism and interchange with South America
2:15 Discussion
2:45 Break
Part 4, Models and methods (John Finarelli moderator)
3:00 Daniele Silvestro, University of Gothenberg, Sweden: Macroevolutionary models using fossils and phylogenies
3:20 Chris Dick, University of Michigan: Geogenomics: Mapping linkages between geophysical and biological diversity across space and time in Andean-Amazon South America
3:40 Discussion
4:10 Wrap up (Catherine Badgley)