Paleonet: Paleoecology I: Symposium at the Ecological Society of America Meetings (8/5/07-8/10/07)

[Paul Harnik]

We would like to announce the following symposium entitled 
"Environmental Change, Extinction Risk, and the Maintenance of 
Biodiversity through Time".

The symposium, co-sponsored by the Paleontological Society and the 
Paleoecology section of the Ecological Society of America, will occur 
during the joint annual meetings of the Ecological Society of America 
and the Society for Ecological Restoration August 5-10, 2007 in San 
Jose, California. When a specific date and time is set for the 
symposium we will circulate that information.

This symposium will provide a forum for ecologists and 
paleoecologists working at multiple temporal scales to discuss the 
maintenance of biodiversity during intervals of environmental change. 
First, this symposium will present a synopsis of the ecological 
fidelity and acuity of geohistorical records in both marine and 
terrestrial settings. Building upon this foundation, speakers will 
address paleoecological research at multiple levels of organization 
from community to global scale biodiversity dynamics, focused on the 
following two themes: 1) community restructuring in response to past 
environmental shifts, and 2) factors influencing extinction risk at 
community and macroecological scales. The research presented will 
apply theory and methods from diverse areas of ecology including 
niche theory, food web dynamics and metabolic scaling to provide 
insights into the ecological processes structuring biodiversity over 
longer temporal scales from the near to distant past. A list of 
participating speakers can be found below.

We encourage ecologically-oriented paleontologists to attend the 
meetings and to submit talks or posters to the general discipline 
sessions. This is a great opportunity to further needed dialogue 
between researchers in these various disciplines and should be really 
fun. The deadline for abstract submissions is March 1, 2007. More 
details can be found at: http://www.esa.org/sanjose/.

Best wishes,

Paul Harnik & Kate Lyons

Speaker list for "Environmental Change, Extinction Risk, and the 
Maintenance of Biodiversity through Time"

Susan M. Kidwell, University of Chicago

Anna K. Behrensmeyer, National Museum of Natural History

S. Kathleen Lyons, Old Dominion University

Peter J. Wagner, Field Museum of Natural History

Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences

Paul G. Harnik, University of Chicago

Tim M. Blackburn, University of Birmingham

David Jablonski, University of Chicago

James H. Brown, University of New Mexico

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Paul Harnik
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
University of Chicago
5734 S. Ellis Ave., Hinds 229
Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773)795-1170
Fax: (773)702-9505
E-mail: pharnik at uchicago.edu 
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