Postgraduate Courses
Teachers
Alejandro Bortolus (IPEEC-CENPAT)
Maria Marta Cigliano (CEPAVE-UNLP)
Claudio De Francesco (IIMYC-UNMdP)
Raúl Pozner (IBODA-Darwinion)
Evangelina Schwindt (IBIOMAR-CENPAT)
Marcela Tonello (IIMYC-UNMdP)
When?
10 to 14 de JULY 2017, with final exam included on those dates.
Where?
Darwinion Institute of Botany, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Maximum Quota?
27 students
Registration deadline?
May 26, 2017
How much does it cost?
The registration fee is one thousand two hundred (1200) Argentine dollars.
Doubts and Registration?
bortolus@gmail.comwith dc toschwindtcnp@gmail.com
Minimum Contents:
Eco-Taxo Interface Concept. Concept of Cascade of Errors. Retrospective of Taxonomy as a discipline in crisis. Systematics, taxonomy, fauna and the identification of organisms. Botanical nomenclature. Principles and methods. Past and present of collections; its relevance in the context of the biodiversity crisis. Nature of the fossil record. paleoecology. Principles and methodologies. Main limitations to taxonomic identification. Taxonomic errors and their consequences in paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Paleobiology of conservation. Taxonomy-Ecology and Fisheries Biology Interaction. Consequences of taxonomic malpractice in understudied and highly diverse taxa. Biological invasions: Concepts and taxonomic definitions of ecological importance. Taxonomic errors and their impact on the study and management of biological invasions.
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