Meeting Abstract S11-7  Sunday, Jan. 7 13:30 – 14:00  Measuring biodiversity and extinction: can global patterns help the species discovery process? SIGWART, Julia D.; SIGWART, Julia; UC Berkeley; Queen’s University Belfast j.sigwart@berkeley.edu http://www.qub.ac.uk/qml/People/Sigwart There are intrinsic mathematical patterns in nature. A Fibonacci sequence describes the arrangements of seeds in a sunflower and the spiral of a Nautilus […]

Meeting Abstract S11-2  Sunday, Jan. 7 09:00 – 09:30  Measuring and comparing extinction events: reconsidering diversity crises and concepts PADIAN, K; University of California, Berkeley kpadian@berkeley.edu Historically, most analyses of “mass extinctions” have focused on the marine realm, because most fossils are preserved there and marine sediments provide more and finer-scaled evidence of turnover and crises in […]

Meeting Abstract S11-1  Sunday, Jan. 7 08:30 – 09:00  Intersection of Quaternary climate oscillations and the generation of biodiversity: crucial or irrelevant? BENNETT, KD; University of St Andrews kdb2@st-andrews.ac.uk https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/gsd/people/kdb2/ The last 2 million years (Quaternary period) have been a period of dramatic environmental change with major shifts in distributions and abundances of terrestrial and marine organisms. […]

Meeting Abstract S11-3  Sunday, Jan. 7 10:00 – 10:30  Extinction, climate, and the dynamics of biodiversity: Analyses of living and fossil marine bivalves EDIE, SM*; COLLINS, KS; HUANG, S; ROY, K; VALENTINE, JW; JABLONSKI, D; U. of Chicago; U. of Chicago; Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center; U. of California, San Diego; U. of California, Berkeley; U. […]

Meeting Abstract S11-5  Sunday, Jan. 7 11:00 – 11:30  Extinction of the hyperdiverse Hawaiian land snail fauna: What remains and what are we doing to save it? YEUNG, NW*; HAYES, KA; Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI; Howard University, Washington DC nyeung@hawaii.edu Plants and animals are under threat of extinction, primarily from human-mediated impacts to the planet. […]

Meeting Abstract S11-8  Sunday, Jan. 7 14:00 – 14:30  Extensive uncharted biodiversity: the parasite dimension OKAMURA, B*; HARTIGAN, A; NALDONI, J; OKAMURA, Beth; Natural History Museum, London; Natural History Museum, London; Universidade Federal de São Paulo b.okamura@nhm.ac.uk http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/beth-okamura.html By their very nature, parasites are hidden and thus hard to sample. Consequently parasites are generally ignored in community […]

Meeting Abstract S11-9  Sunday, Jan. 7 14:30 – 15:00  Blank Canvas: The Case for Descriptive Taxonomy WHEELER, QD; College of Environmental Science and Forestry qwheeler@esf.edu DNA barcodes are a useful tool for identifying species, but are no substitute for descriptive taxonomy. We could turn all the paintings in the Louvre facing the wall, label the reverse of […]

Meeting Abstract S11-10  Sunday, Jan. 7 15:00 – 15:30  21st Century Biological Nomenclature—the Power of Names WINSTON, J E; WINSTON, Judith; Smithsonian Marine Station, Fort Pierce, FL judithewinston@gmail.com Nomenclature and taxonomy are complementary aspects of the study of biodiversity. However, the two are often confused even by biologists. Taxonomy is the science of identifying, describing, and determining […]

Meeting Abstract S11-4  Monday, Jan. 7 10:00 – 10:30  Which line to follow? The utility of different line-fitting methods to capture the mechanism of morphological scaling SHINGLETON, AW; Univ. of Illinois at Chicago ashingle@uic.edu http://www.shingletonlab.org Bivariate morphological scaling relationships describe how the size of two traits co-varies among adults in a population. In as much as body […]

Meeting Abstract S11-1  Monday, Jan. 7 08:00 – 08:30  Sexual Selection and Static Allometry: the Importance of Behavior and Function RODRIGUEZ, RL*; EBERHARD, WG; Biological Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA; Escuela de Biología, Univ. de Costa Rica, Costa Rica; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama; and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State Univ., USA rafa@uwm.edu http://www.preferencefunctions.org Extreme trait […]