14th Rodens et Spatium
International Conference on Rodent Biology
28th July - 2nd August - 2014
Lisbon - Portugal

Confirmed Speakers:
Bastiaan Meerburg
Wageningen University - The Netherlands
Disease Transmission and Pest Control
Biodiversity and global changes
Eduardo Roldan
National Museum of Natural Sciences - Spain
Reproductive Ecology
* 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





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



- North of Portugal - 6 days tour.
- South of Portugal - 6 days tour.
- Madeira Island - 4 days tour.
- Oporto - World Heritage - 4 days tour.