{"id":174,"date":"2023-02-15T16:59:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T23:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/?page_id=174"},"modified":"2023-02-23T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T04:44:19","slug":"biodiversity-gradients","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/biodiversity-gradients\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity Gradients"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Biodiversity along elevation and productivity gradients <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4><strong>A working group and mini symposium at the University of British Columbia sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/biodiversity.ubc.ca\/\">Biodiversity Research Centre<\/a> (BRC-GCRC funding)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3><strong>22-24 Feb 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4>Co-organizers: Leticia Avil\u00e9s (Zoology), Jill Jankowski (Zoology), and Naomi Schwartz (Geography)<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Day 1, Wed, Feb 22<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>9:30 am <\/strong>coffee and pastries BRC 224<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Mini-symposium, Beaty Auditorium, 10:00 am &#8211; 2:00 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>10:05\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Introduction, Leticia Avil\u00e9s &amp; Jill Jankowski, UBC, Zoology<\/li>\n<li><strong>10:15\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Vegetation structural complexity and biodiversity, <a href=\"https:\/\/zoology.ubc.ca\/person\/leticia-aviles\">Leticia Avil\u00e9s<\/a> &amp; Luis Camacho, UBC, Zoology<\/li>\n<li><strong>10:25\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Understanding vegetation structure with remote sensing at different scales, <a href=\"https:\/\/geog.ubc.ca\/profile\/naomi-schwartz\/\">Naomi Schwartz<\/a>, UBC, Geography<\/li>\n<li><strong>10:35<\/strong> \u00a0 So near and yet so far, beta diversity of frogs in Llanganates National Park, Amazonia, Ecuador, <a href=\"https:\/\/bioweb.puce.edu.ec\/QCAZ\/contenido\/SantiagoRon\">Santiago Ron<\/a>, PUCE &#8211; Quito (visa pending).<\/li>\n<li><strong>10:50\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong> Bird diversity and habitat structure along elevation gradients, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoology.ubc.ca\/~jankowsk\/People.html#Principal_Investigator\">Jill Jankowski<\/a>, UBC, Zoology<\/li>\n<li><strong>11:00\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The importance of connectivity for carnivore richness and occupancy in fragmented biodiversity hotspots, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=isI65c0AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Cindy Hurtado<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/coleburton.weebly.com\/\">Cole Burton<\/a>, UBC, Forestry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>11:10 &#8211; 11:30 <\/strong>short break<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>11:30\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The geography of ant morphology among colonies, populations and communities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/artsci\/biology\/faculty.html.html?fpid=jean-philippe-lessard\">Jean-Phillipe Lessard<\/a>, Concordia U<\/li>\n<li><strong>11:45\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Insect diversity on the tropical Andes, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/avileslab\/people\/\">Cesar Cabra-Arias<\/a>, UBC Zoology<\/li>\n<li><strong>11:55\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Changes in the composition of web-building spider communities from the rainforest to the paramo, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/avileslab\/people\/\">Andrea Haberkern<\/a>, UBC Zoology<\/li>\n<li><strong>12:05\u00a0 <\/strong>Rain intensity and spider web architecture, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/avileslab\/people\/\">Yu-Heng Lin<\/a>, UBC Zoology<\/li>\n<li><strong>12:15\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong> Leaf miners and their parasitoids along the Andes elevational gradient, Karina Torres, UBC Zoology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>12: 25 &#8211; 13:25 <\/strong>lunch BRC 224<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>13:25\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Collector behaviour affects the assumptions we can make about biodiversity data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edslab.org\/people\">Melissa Guzm\u00e1n<\/a>, U Southern California<\/li>\n<li><strong>13:40\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Using the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) database for macroecological studies of Ecuador&#8217;s biodiversity, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com.ec\/citations?user=6eLuGU8AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Luis Camacho<\/a>, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona<\/li>\n<li><strong>13:50\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Phylogenetic Comparative Methods: a simplified overview, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=V9OegfkAAAAJ&amp;hl=es\">Francisco Henao<\/a>, U Chicago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Day 1, afternoon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>14:30 &#8211; 16:30\u00a0 <\/strong>group discussions with papers from the literature (BioSci 4223 &amp; 4227)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Day 2, Thu, Feb 23<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>9:30 &#8211; 13:30<\/strong>\u00a0 work in groups (2-3 topics based on plans for papers): look into preliminary data and analyses (BRC 224 &amp; 303)<\/li>\n<li><strong>14:30 &#8211; 16:30<\/strong>\u00a0 short meeting to report on outcome of group meetings: outlines and data analysis plans (BRC 224)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Day 3, Fri, Feb 24\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>9:30 &#8211; 13:00<\/strong>\u00a0 work in groups (2-3 topics based on plans for papers) (BRC 224 &amp; 225)<\/li>\n<li><strong>14:00 &#8211; 16:30<\/strong>\u00a0 report on outcome of subgroups: Next steps and presentations to the rest of the groups (BRC 224)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/files\/2023\/02\/Gradients-working-group-photo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1398\" height=\"903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/files\/2023\/02\/Gradients-working-group-photo.jpeg 1398w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/files\/2023\/02\/Gradients-working-group-photo-300x194.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/files\/2023\/02\/Gradients-working-group-photo-1024x661.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/files\/2023\/02\/Gradients-working-group-photo-768x496.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/files\/2023\/02\/Gradients-working-group-photo-620x400.jpeg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1398px) 100vw, 1398px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biodiversity along elevation and productivity gradients A working group and mini symposium at the University of British Columbia sponsored by the Biodiversity Research Centre (BRC-GCRC funding) 22-24 Feb 2023 Co-organizers: Leticia Avil\u00e9s (Zoology), Jill Jankowski (Zoology), and Naomi Schwartz (Geography) Day 1, Wed, Feb 22 9:30 am coffee and pastries BRC 224 Mini-symposium, Beaty Auditorium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21770,"featured_media":175,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-174","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/leticiaaviles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}