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WoRCS in the 1st Congresso Nazionale Congiunto SITE-UZI-SIB (Italy)
Added on 2016-09-12 19:09:10 by Martínez García, Alejandro
Last week (30 August-2 September 2016) the WoRCS initiative was presented to the 1st Congresso Nazionale Congiunto SITE-UZI-SIB "Biodiversity: concepts, new tools and future challenges" in Milano, Italy.Last week (30 August-2 September 2016) the WoRCS initiative was presented to the 1st Congresso Nazionale Congiunto SITE-UZI-SIB "Biodiversity: concepts, new tools and future challenges" that was hosted by the Universitá degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
The 1st Congresso Nazionale Congiunto SITE-UZI-SIB represented the first joint conferences of the Societá Italiana d’Ecologia, Unione Italiana Zoologica and Societá Italiana di Biogeografia, and therefore provided a great opportunity to exchange ideas and promote interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers working on different fields.
The program included more than 60 oral and 100 poster presentations, which covered the most important research lines within the main 33 Italian universities. The topics covered diverse research areas such as animal morphology and physiology, ecotoxicology, conservation biology, climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem function, phylogeny and biogeography, antibiotic resistance, groundwater, deep sea ecology, endemism in Italy, etc.
At the conference, the WoRCS initiative was presented by Alejandro Martínez as part of his talk on “Patterns of diversity of marine cave meiofauna: Italy as a case of study”, co-authored by Vasilis Gerovasileiou (Hellenic Center for Marine Research), Marco Curini-Galletti (University of Sassari), Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen) and Diego Fontaneto (ISE-CNR). The talk was received with interest by the audience, as the WoRCS initiative includes a considerable number of records from Italian caves, with a considerable number of species endemic to this region. Therefore, the WoRCS database could be used as a valuable tool for Italian researchers to facilitate exchange of information, as well as to support the designing of conservation policies, biodiversity inventories or general biogeographical and ecological studies.
The 1st Congresso Nazionale Congiunto SITE-UZI-SIB represented the first joint conferences of the Societá Italiana d’Ecologia, Unione Italiana Zoologica and Societá Italiana di Biogeografia, and therefore provided a great opportunity to exchange ideas and promote interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers working on different fields.
The program included more than 60 oral and 100 poster presentations, which covered the most important research lines within the main 33 Italian universities. The topics covered diverse research areas such as animal morphology and physiology, ecotoxicology, conservation biology, climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem function, phylogeny and biogeography, antibiotic resistance, groundwater, deep sea ecology, endemism in Italy, etc.
At the conference, the WoRCS initiative was presented by Alejandro Martínez as part of his talk on “Patterns of diversity of marine cave meiofauna: Italy as a case of study”, co-authored by Vasilis Gerovasileiou (Hellenic Center for Marine Research), Marco Curini-Galletti (University of Sassari), Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen) and Diego Fontaneto (ISE-CNR). The talk was received with interest by the audience, as the WoRCS initiative includes a considerable number of records from Italian caves, with a considerable number of species endemic to this region. Therefore, the WoRCS database could be used as a valuable tool for Italian researchers to facilitate exchange of information, as well as to support the designing of conservation policies, biodiversity inventories or general biogeographical and ecological studies.
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