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