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Scientific Programme
Social Programme
Welcome Party

Confirmed Speakers:

Scent Communication

Jeremy Searle

Evolution and Biogeography

Bastiaan Meerburg

Wageningen University - The Netherlands

Disease Transmission and Pest Control

McGill University - Canada

Metabolic Ecology

Biodiversity and global changes

Eduardo Roldan

National Museum of Natural Sciences - Spain

Reproductive Ecology

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* Tools for analyzing landscape connectivity -

Santiago Saura - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

 

* Using Landsat imagery to understand landscape ecology - Francisco Andrade - University of Lisbon

 

* Introduction to the study of biological form: a Geometric Morphometric approach 

- Francesc Muñoz Muñoz - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Lisbon city Museum

 

Mid Conference Tour

Sintra

UNESCO - World Heritage Site

Banquet

* Stories from underground: biology of subterranean rodents

Organised by: Radim Å umbera (University of South Bohemia - Czech Republic) & Hynek Burda (University Duisburg-Essen - Germany)

 

* Rodent Population dynamics:ecology and management

Organised by: Juan Luque-Larena (Universidad de Valladolid - Spain)

 

* African Rodents

Organised by Cristiane Bastos-Silveira (National Museum of Natural History & Science - Portugal) & Josef Bryja (Institute of Vertebrate Biology, ASCR, Brno - Czech Republic)

 

* Rodents on Islands

Organized by Jeremy Searle (Cornell University - USA) & Sofia Gabriel (University of Lisbon - Portugal)

 

* Camera Trapping and Novel Census Techniques

Organized by Paul Meek (University of New England - Australia)

 

* Ecology and conservation of tree squirrels

Organized by Lucas Wauters (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria - Italy) & Sandro Bertolino (University of Turin - Italy)

 

* Rodents as Invasive species and options for their management

Organized by Guntram G. Meier (InGrip-Consulting - Germany)

 

* Chromosomal variation and evolution in rodents 

Organized by Jeremy Searle (Cornell University - USA) & Svetlana Pavlova (Severtsov Institute, Moscow - Russia)
 

* Rodents as hosts and vectors

Organized by Heidi C. Hauffe (Research and Innovation Centre - Fondazione E. Machand- Italy) and Adam Konecny (Masaryk University, Brno - Czech Republic)

General Sessions

* Behaviour
* Conservation
* Ecology
* Evolution
* Morphometrics
* Parasites & Diseases
* Phylogeography & Phylogeny
* Physiology
* Population Dynamics
* Rodent Management

Programme for accompanying people
Post Conference Tours

- North of Portugal - 6 days tour.

- South of Portugal - 6 days tour.

- Madeira Island - 4 days tour.

- Oporto - World Heritage  - 4 days tour.

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