Electronic Supplement 6
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Organisms
Diversity & Evolution 4 (2004) Electronic Supplement 6 |
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Günter Bechly (ed.):
Abstracts of the 7th Annual Meeting of
the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik
print version: Org. Divers. Evol. 4(3): 365. 2004
(announcement)
electr. suppl.: Conference abstracts in pdf-format 976 KB
Abstract:
This electronic supplement comprises the short
communications of 54 oral presentations and 45 posters from the 7th annual
congress of the GfBS (see http://www.gfbs-home.de/), held in
Stuttgart, 14-17th September 2004. The congress with 137 participants was
organised by the Natural History Museum (Staatliches Museum für
Naturkunde) Stuttgart, and opened by Minister Prof. Dr. Peter Frankenberg
(Baden-Württemberg Minister for Science and Arts), Prof. Dr. Wolfgang
Wägele (President of the GfBS), and Dr. habil. Johanna Eder (Director of
SMNS).
The main topics of the congress were (i) the calibration of
molecular clocks (invited lecture by Prof. Dr. Susanne Renner "Die Probleme und
Möglichkeiten simultaner, multipler Eichungen von molekularen Uhren"),
(ii) changes of biodiversity in time (invited lecture by Prof. Hans Kerp "Der
Rhynie Chert, eines der ältesten und meist vollständig erhaltenen
Ökosysteme"), (iii) the evolution of diversity of species in island- and
refugial habitats (invited lecture by Dr. Helmut Schmalfuß & Dr.
Thomas Raus "Insuläre Biodiversität in der Ägäis"). In
addition, many oral and poster presentations on different topics of
biosystematics were given, covering taxonomic aspects of bioinformatics (GBIF),
biogeography, palaeontology, morphology, biodiversity research and biodiversity
collections, as well as the following major organismic groups: Fungi,
horsetails, ferns, various angiosperms, "protozoans", as well as the metazoan
groups Porifera, Nematoda, Mollusca, Annelida, Arthropoda, and Vertebrata.
Special meetings of museum curators and of the group of young systematists
were held during the congress. A workshop was held on software for phylogenetic
tree reconstructions (Dr. Heiko Schmidt, NIC, FZ Jülich) and the
construction of SuperTrees from heterogeneous data sets (Dr. Olaf
Bininda-Emonds, TU Munich). Guided tours in the Natural History Museum
Stuttgart (Museum am Löwentor and Schloss Rosenstein) and the Stuttgart
Zoological and Botanical Garden Wilhelma were offered to the participants of
the congress. Prof. Friedrich Ehrendorfer (University Vienna) was appointed
honorary member of the society and held the public lecture "Hybridisierung
erhöht die Artenvielfalt in der Evolution".The Bernhard Rensch Prize of
the society was awarded for the first time, and a prize for the best poster
presentation was awarded as well.
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