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3rd OBC "The Biology of Extinction 2"

Organizers Tetsukazu Yahara (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Callum Roberts (Univ. of York, UK)
Venue National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
Date Mar. 12-17, 2006
Link OBC3 Website (http://www.nibb.ac.jp/obc/3rd/index.html)
Poster 3rd OBC

 絶滅は、種の多様化とともに、地球上の生物多様性のパターンを形成してきたプロセスである。一方で、人類の活動によって、地球上から急速に種が失われているので、絶滅の研究は、基礎的にも応用的にも重要な課題である。この問題意識から、「絶滅の生物学」に関する最初の会議が、2 年前に行なわれた。今回は、2 年前の参加者から主要なメンバー(外国人9名、日本人5 名)を講演者として再招待し、さらに10 名の招待講演者を加えて実施した。8 つのセッションの下で、どのような性質を持つ種が絶滅しやすいか、絶滅と種分化の関連によって多様性のパターンがどのように決まるか、温暖化は絶滅をどのように促進するか、人間の心理的特性は絶滅にどのように影響するか、などのテーマに関して、Nature やScience などに印刷中の成果を含む、きわめて刺激に富む報告があり、活発な討論が行われた。最後に、「絶滅の生物学」の体系化に関する総合討論を行なった。参加者が、新しい分野の誕生に立ち会っているという興奮を共有して、会議を終えることができた。

 

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Program

March 12 (Sunday)                                                             

17:00-20:00

      Registration (at the Okazaki New Grand Hotel)

 

 

March 13 (Monday)                                                             

 

09:00-09:50

      Welcome Address

          Motoya Katsuki (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)

      Introduction to “The Biology of Extinction”

          Tetsukazu Yahara and Callum Roberts (Organizers)

 

Session 1: Historic and Prehistoric Extinctions (Chair: Tet Yahara)

09:50-10:40

       “Natural vs. Human Causes of Extinction on Islands”

          Storrs L. Olson (Smithsonian Institution, USA)

10:40-11:00

      Coffee Break

11:00-11:50

       “Inferring Regional Evolutionary Rates from Present-day Biogeographic Information”

          Emma E. Goldberg & Russell Lande (University of California San Diego, USA)

11:50-12:50

      Lunch

 

Session 2: Patterns and Genetics of Extinction (Chair: Brad Shaffer)

12:50-13:40

       “Extinction Risk in Mammals: Phylogenetic and Geographic Patterns”

          Andy Purvis (Imperial College, UK)

13:40-14:30

       “Future land-use and climate change and extinction risk in birds”

          Walter Jetz (University of California San Diego, USA)

14:30-14:50

      Coffee Break

14:50-15:40

       “Assessing Freshwater Extinctions: the Data from Freshwater Fishes.”

          Melanie Stiassny (American Museum of Natural History, USA)

15:40-16:30

       “Geographic and Taxonomic Patterns of Extinction in Terrestrial Vertebrates of  the Ryukyus and Adjacent Islands”

          Hidetoshi Ohta (Ryukyu University, Japan)

16:30-17:20

       “Are Conservation Concerns about Loss of Genetic Diversity Justified?”

          Richard Frankham (Macquarie University, Australia)

17:30-19:30

      Get Together (at Okazaki Conference Center)

 

 

March 14 (Tuesday)                                                            

Session 3: Population Perspectives for Extinctions (Chair: Russ Lande)

09:00-09:50

       “Quantifying the Foundations of Extinction Biology: a Base for Innovation”

          Barry Brook (Charles Darwin University, Australia)

09:50-10:40

       “Metapopulation Extinction”

          Ilkka Hanski (University of Helsinki, Finland)

10:40-11:00

      Coffee Break

11:00-11:50

       “Importance of Allee Effects for Population Extinctions ”

          Franck Courchamp (University of Paris-Sud, France)

11:50-12:50

      Lunch

12:50-13:40

       “Correlates of Intrinsic Regulation: Implications for Assessing Extinction Risk”

          Corey J. A. Bradshaw (Charles Darwin University, Australia)

 

Session 4: Community Perspectives for Extinction (Chair: Yoh Iwasa)

13:40-14:30

       “Ecological Extinction and Community Organization”

          Enric Sala (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)

14:30-15:20

       “How to Avoid Extinction under the Adaptive Ecosystem Management and the Maximum Sustainable Yield Theory”

          Hiroyuki Matsuda (Yokohama National University, Japan)

15:20-15:40

      Coffee Break

15:40-16:30

       “ Rain Forest Fragmentation, Community Composition and Species Extinction”

          Keith Hamer (University of Leeds, UK)

16:30-17:20

       “Coexistence and Exclusion of Tree Species in Forests: Testability of Proposed Mechanisms of Species Coexistence”

          Akio Takenaka (National Institute of Environmental, Japan)

18:00

      Japanese-style Dinner

 

 

March 15 (Wednesday)                                                         

 

Session 5: Invasion and Extinction (Chair: Franck Courchamp)

09:00-09:50

       “Invasion and Extinction on the Hawaiian Islands: Lessons from the Past and Present”

          David Duffy (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)

09:50-10:40

       “Spatial Dynamics of Extinction Resulting from Invasions”

          Alan Hastings (University of California Davis, USA)

10:40-11:00

      Coffee Break

11:00-11:50

       “Genetic Extinction by Hybridization: Theoretical Models”

Yoshinari Tanaka (Chuo University, Japan)

11:50-12:40

       “Extinction via Hybridization with Invasive Species ”

          Brad Shaffer (University of California Davis, USA)

12:40-13:40

      Lunch

13:40-17:00

      Poster Session 

 

 

March 16 (Thursday)                                                           

  

 

Session 6: Climate Change, Extinction and Management (Chair: Hiroyuki Matsuda)

09:00-09:50

       “Uncertainty in Projections of Extinction Risk from Climate Change”

          Miguel B. Araujo (Oxford University, UK)

09:50-10:40

       “Ecological Niches of Species, Climate Change, and Extinction”

          E. Martinez-Meyer (UNAM, Mexico)

10:40-11:00

      Coffee Break

11:00-11:50

       “Global-change Impacts on Seasonal Dynamics of Plant-pollinator Interactions”

          Gaku Kudo (Hokkaido University, Japan)

11:50-12:40

       “Dynamic Decision-Making Formalism of the Optimal Management of Extinction Risk”

          Yoh Iwasa (Kyushu University, Japan)

12:40-17:00

      Excursion

17:45-19:45

       Dinner (at the Okazaki New Grand Hotel)

 

 

March 17 (Friday)                                                               

 

Session 7: 8 Lectures Selected from Poster Presentation (Chair: Tet Yahara)

09:00-10:40

          Jon Bielby (Imperial College London, UK)

          John Halley (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

          Fumiko Ishihama (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan)

          Jorgen Ripa (Lund University, Sweden)

10:40-11:00

      Coffee Break

11:00-12:40

          Cagan Sekercioglu (Stanford University, USA)

          Kei Tokita (Osaka University, Japan)

          Jean-Christophe Vie (IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Switzerland)

          Christopher Wilmers (University of California, Davis, USA)

12:40-13:40

      Lunch

 

Session 8: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Extinction (Chair: Ilkka Hanski)

13:40-14:30

       “Ecosystem Extinction in the Seas”

          Jeremy Jackson (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)

14:30-15:20

       “Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis”

          Navjot Sodhi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

15:20-15:40

      Coffee Break

15:40-16:30

       “Population Trajectories Leading to Extinction”

          Russell Lande (University of California San Diego, USA)

16:30-16:50

      Concluding Remarks

          Testukazu Yahara (Organizer)

16:50-17:10

      General Discussion