Curriculum Vitae John J. Wiens - Stony Brook University

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(24) “Phylogenetic perspectives on community assembly and the competitiondivergence-coexistence
conundrum” Symposium on “Phylogenetic
approaches to community ecology” sponsored by the Ecological Society
of Japan, March 17, 2008. Fukuoka, Japan.
(25) “Evolutionary ecology and the Tree of Life” NSF-sponsored workshop
“Where to next with the Tree of Life?” April 8, 2008. Washington D.C.
(26) “The evolution of snake-like body form in squamate reptiles: patterns,
rates, and levels of explanation” Symposium entitled: “Evolutionary
transitions of body shape in extant amphibians and reptiles: call for
integrative approaches” sponsored by the 6 th World Congress of
Herpetology, August 20, 2008. Manaus, Brazil.
(27) “The unexpected ecology of allopatric speciation” Keynote lecture for
symposium on “Mechanisms of speciation” at XXth International
Congress of Zoology, August 29, 2008. Paris, France.
(28) “Phylogenies and paradigm shifts in evolutionary biology” Keynote
lecture for symposium “Recent advances in macroevolutionary
approaches to evolutionary studies” European Society for Evolutionary
Biology, August 24–29, 2009. Torino, Italy.
(29) “Using phylogenies in evolutionary biology and ecology” for workshop
“Phylogenetic methods and applications” August 31, 2009. Asti, Italy.
(30) “The niche, large-scale biogeography, and species interactions ” for
symposium “Biogeography and ecology: two lenses in one telescope” at
Vth International Biogeography Meetings, January 9, 2011. Heraklion,
Crete, Greece.
(31) “Using phylogenies to study niche evolution” for symposium on Trait
evolution at the Willi Hennig Society meetings, June 2012 (scheduled),
Riverside, California.
(32) "Niche conservatism and speciation" for symposium "The role of
behaviour in non-adaptive and non-ecological speciation" at the
International Behavioral Ecology Congress, August 2012 (scheduled),
Lund, Sweden.
(33) "Speciation, niche conservatism, and niche divergence in theory and in
amphibians" for symposium "Speciation in amphibians and reptiles:
from patterns to processes and mechanisms" at the 7th World Congress
of Herpetology, August 2012 (scheduled), Vancouver, British Colombia.