22ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUBTERRANEAN BIOLOGY

"Biodiversity and Conservation”

Organized under the auspices of the International Society for Subterranean Biology and Faculty of Sciences, UNAM

Sunday 31 August

14:00 Venue at Restaurant “Fin de Siglo”
17:00 Welcome cocktail at Restaurant “Fin de Siglo”
1 Hidalgo Street, Down Town Querétaro.

Scientific program at Centro Académico y Cultural (CAC) at UNAM, Campus Juriquilla, Querétaro.

Monday 1st September

09:00 INAUGURATION by Juan B: Morales Malacara, Coordinator of Unidad de Docencia e Investigación, Fac. Ciencias, UNAM, Campus Juriquilla. Ľubomír Kováč, president of SIBIOS. Master of ceremony Hugo H. Mejía Madrid.   

09:30 HISTORY OF MEXICAN BIOSPELEOLOGY (key lecture)
Juan B. Morales Malacara

SYMPOSIUM: CONSERVATION OF SUBTERRANEAN LIFE
Chair: D. Zeppelini
10:00 RED LISTED CAVE COLLEMBOLA IN BRAZIL: IUCN’s CRITERIA APPLIED TO CAVE INVERTEBRATES
Douglas Zeppelini
10:20 THE FIRST TWO HOTSPOTS OF SUBTERRANEAN BIODIVERSITY IN SOUTH AMERICA
Marconi Souza Silva, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira
10:40 MANAGMENT CONSERVATION IN SHOW CAVES (SKOCJAN CAVES, SLOVENIA
Samo Sturm, Tomaz Zorman, Janez Mulec, Tanja Pipan, Slavko Polak

11:00 Coffee break

SYMPOSIUM: SUBTERRANEAN DIVERSITY
Chair: Ľubomír Kováč
11:20 DISTRIBUTIONAL PATTERNS OF CAVE COLLEMBOLA (HEXAPODA) IN ASSOCIATION WITH HABITAT CONDITIONS, GEOGRAPHY AND PALEOREFUGIA IN THE WESTERN CARPATHIANS

Kováč L., A. Parimuchová & D. Miklisová

11:40 INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES IN THE TEMPORARILY FLOODED CAVE

Dumnicka, E. & J. Galas

13:00 Lunch

SYMPOSIUM: ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR
Chair: Oana Teodora Moldovan

 

15:00 COLLEMBOLA COMMUNITIES OF FORESTED LIMESTONE AND BASALT TALUS DEPOSTS IN THE WESTERN CARPATHIANS, SLOVAKIA

Michal Rendoš, Natália Raschmanová, Ľubomír Kováč

15:20 THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME SCALE IN SUBTERRANEAN HABITATS MONITORING
Oana Teodora Moldovan

15:40 Coffee break

17:00 TOURISTIC VISIT OF THE CITY

Tuesday 2nd September

SYMPOSIUM: ANCHIALINE AND CENOTES ECOSYSTEMS
Chair: Luis M. Mejía Ortiz

09:00  DISTRIBUTION OF MEXICAN STYGOBIONTIC CRUSTACEAN (30) (key lecture)

Luis M. Mejía Ortiz

09:30 PREDATION AND SPATIAL-TEMPORAL USE OF YUCATÁN CENOTES BY STYGOBITIC CRUSTACEANS: CREASERIA MORLEYI AND TYPHLATYA SPP. PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Efraín M. Chávez Solís, Maite Mascaró, Fernando Nuno, Simões Dias Marques

09:50 AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR FROM TWO ANCHIALINE SHRIMPS IN COZUMEL ISLAND

Mejía-Ortíz, L. M. & M. López-Mejía

10:10 PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF THE INVERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE GUNUNG MULU WORLD HERITAGE KARST AREA, SARAWAK, MALAYSIA

Timothy Moulds

10: 30 Videos: Las Sardinas Cave (by José G. Palacios-Vargas), Cave fauna from Croacia (by Marko Kulic), Encounters with Demons (by Zdenek Motycka).  

11:10Coffee break

11: 30 THE MICROSCALE IS A MAJOR DRIVER FOR SUBSURFACE FAUNA

Schmidt, S.I., M.O. Cuthbert & M. Schwientek

11:50  DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GROUPS OF TROGLOFAUNA IN SPECIES’ RANGES AND GENETIC VARIABILITY

Halse, S.A. & A.J. Trotter

SYMPOSIUM: MICROBIOLOGY
Chair: A. Kubátová

12:10 MICROSCOPIC FUNGI IN UNDERGROUND TUNNELS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Kubátová, A., M. Kolařík, A. Nováková & P. Špryňar

12:30 THE POTENTIAL USE OF ECOPHYSIOLOGICAL GROUPS OF BACTERIA FROM CAVE SEDIMENTS AS INDICARTORS OF PALEOENVIROMENTS
Laura Epure, Oana Teodora Moldovan

13:00 Lunch

15: 00 POSTERS EXHIBITION

• THE CAVE TYPE LOCALITIES ATLAS OF CROATIAN FAUNA

         Tamara Cukovic, Branko Jalzic, Martina Pavlek

• MEXICAN ANCHIALINE FAUNA

Fernando Calderón-Gutiérrez, Carlos A. Sánchez-Ortiz

 

• TROGLOBITE AND TROGLOMORPHIC SPECIES IN BRAZILIAN SPELEOLOGICAL LEGISLATION: CRITIQUES AND SUGGESTIONS

            Araujo-Soares, G., G. Pisa-Perroni, D. Demarchi-Guarda & A. Sarreiro-Auler

• DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS DISTRIBUTION IN UNDERGROUND CAVE SYSTEMS OF THE RIVIERA MAYA

Christian O.Martínez-Lozano, Luis M.Mejía-Ortíz, Lopez- Marilu Mejía, Joey  Pakes M.

• PATTERNS OF SUBTERRANEAN BIODIVERSITY IN THE APPALACHIANS AND INTERIOR LOW PLATEAUS OF THE UNITED STATES

     Matthew Niemiller, Mary C. Christman, David C. Culver, Daniel H. Doctor, TanjaPipan, David Weary, John Young, Kirk Zigler

• OVERVIEW OF THE HUNGARIAN NIRPHARGUS (CRUSTACEA: AMPHIPODA) SPECIES

 Angyal, D. & G. Balázs

• ORDER NEELIPLEONA (COLLEMBOLA) REVEALS ITS DIVERSITY IN CAVE HABITATS

Papáč, V., M. Lukić & Ľ. Kováč

• OVERVIEW OF THE HUNGARIAN NIPHARGUS (CRUSTACEA: AMPHIPODA) SPECIES

      Angyal, D. & G. Balázs

• RESEARCHES AND MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LONG-TERM CONSERVATION OF ROMANIAN CAVE

Ruxandra Nastase-Bucur, Daniela Borda

• ASPERGILLUS SPP. ASSOCIATED WITH CAVES: A SOURCE OF NOVEL SPECIES AND RATE TAXA

Alena Nováková, Vit Hubka, Miroslav Kolarik, Michael J. Vaugham

• WORLD CAVE DWELLERS ECHINODERMS AND ECOLOGICAL STUDY IN EL AEROLITO SYSTEM, COZUMEL, MEXICO.

Fernando Calderón-Gutiérrez, Francisco A. Solís-Marín, Carlos A. Sánchez-Ortiz.

16:00 Coffee break

16:20  Cultural activity:  Ballet from Querétaro.

 

Wednesday 3 September

Middle term expedition to Peña Bernal and Grutas de los Herrera.

Thursday 4 September

SYMPOSIUM: SUPERFICIAL SUBTERRANEAN HABITATS
Chair: Alberto Sendra
10:00 ARE THERE LIMITS TO THE SUBTERRANEAN FAUNA?

Alberto Sendra (key lecture)

10:30 HOW SHOULD WE CLASSIFY SHALLOW SUBTERRANEAN HABITATS?

Tanja Pipan, David C. Culver

10: 50 ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF THE SHADOW SUBSTRATUM IN MEDITERRAEAN REGION: ARTHROPOD DIVERSITY OF A COLLUBIAL DEBRIS IN EASTER SPAIN
Alberto Jiménez-Valverde, José Domingo Gilgado, Alberto Sendra, Gonzalo Pérez-Suarez, Juan J. Herrero-Borgoñón & Vicente M. Ortuño

11:10 Coffee break

SYMPOSIUM: MORPHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY
Chair: Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira

11:30 SEXUAL REVERSAL WHAT DO CAVE ENVIRONMENTAL TRAITS HAVE TO DO WITH IT?
Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira
12:00:  SKYPE CONFERENCE AT JURIQUILLA WITH THE CAVE INVERTEBRATE SPECIALIST GROUP.
Tony Whitten (co-chair of the cave invertebrate specialist group), David Culver, Alberto Sendra, Stefano Taiti, L’ubomir Kováč & Elzbieta Dumnicka, José Palacios (proposed by Sonia Khela).
13:00 Lunch

15:00 Conference close. By L’ubomir Kováč, President of the SIBIOS

Obituary of René Ginet, Guy J. Magniez and Beatrice Sambugar
Pierre Strinati – honorary member of the SIBIOS-ISSB
Presentation of the next conference venue

General Assembly of the International Society of Subterranean Biology

17:00 Coffee break
17:20 Folkloric Mexican Music

20:00 Conference dinner