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Organisers: Cristina Giacoma, Peter Narins and Patricia Wright

Venue: Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali,

V. Giolitti 36 – Torino – Italy

Message from the Organisers:

While relaxing in one of the most fascinating biodiversity hotspot in the world, the Ranomafane forest, our thought went to the challenge that climate change bring to world biodiversity. Therefore we thought that was important to meet together in order to discuss the main critical points on how climate changes will effect the living organisms. We will try together to highlight causes and effects in order to try to understand the main dynamics to produce predictions which allow us to address on solid scientific bases the political interventions on changing human behaviour to reverse the problem. That is to have valuable insights starting from the knowledge of real organisms biology, looking to long term series of data, find a way to integrate all different information to distinguish the relative effects of different environmental negative pressure and estimate their potential combinatory effects. Moreover, a global problem requires a high collaborative effort among all researchers  and we have to look for new ways and new instruments of collaboration, such as common databases.

The symposium will put together scientists with a deep experience on the field and different disciplines in order to come out during  the  final panel discussion with a useful synthesis on what we have to focus and new directions.

This blog would serve as a tool for sharing scientific papers and thoughts about climate change and stimulate discussion to shape new directions.

PROGRAMME

13.30 Welcome

• Ermanno  De Biaggi  (Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali)
• Elio Giamello  (Univ.  of  Torino)

Introduction  Cristina Giacoma  (Univ.  of  Torino)

14.00 Carlo Cerrano (Univ. of Genova) Climate change and the loss of marine ecosystem engineers

14.25 Irene Keller (Univ. of Bern) The role of adaptive genetic diversity in changing (aquatic) environments

14.50 Franco Andreone (MRSN, Torino) Global warming and extinction risks for amphibians in Madagascar, an overview

15.15 Patricia Wright (ICTE-Stony Brook) Will climate change effect lemurs?

15.40 Coffee Break

16.10 Peter Narins (UCLA) The effect of climate change on vocal communication in amphibians

16.35 Phillip Gienapp (Univ. of Helsinki)  Responses to climate change: microevolution or phenotypic plasticity and how can we disentangle them?

17.00 Roger Thorpe (Bangor University) Climatic adaptation in Lesser Antillean anoles

17.25 Panel discussion – Franco Andreone, Emilio Balletto, Carlo Cerrano, Cristina Giacoma, Phillip Gienapp, Irene Keller, Peter Narins, Roger Thorpe, Patricia Wright

READING ROOM

1. Andreone et al., 2008 - The Challenge of Conserving Amphibian Megadiversity in Madagascar - Andreone et al 2008

2. Raxworthy C.J., 2008 - Global warming and extinction risks for amphibians in Madagascar: a preliminary assessment of upslope displacement – Raxworthy – ACSAM – 2008

3. Conservation Programs for the Amphibians of Madagascar – Sahonagasy Action Plan

4. J. Garrabou et al., 2009 - Mass mortality in Northwestern Mediterranean rocky benthic communities: effects of the 2003 heat wave

5. C. Cerrano, G. Bavestrello, 2009 – Mass Mortalities and Extinctions

ABSTRACTS

1. Franco Andreone – Global warming and extinction risks for amphibians in Madgascar, an overview

2. Carlo Cerrano – Climate change and the loss of marine ecosystem engineers

3. Phillip Gienapp – Responses to climate change: microevolution or phenotypic plasticity and how can we disentangle them?

WORKSHOP PHOTO GALLERY (Photo by Viviana Sorrentino)