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5th Congress of the European Malacological Societies
 
     
 
We are pleased to announce the participation of three prime international keynote speakers at the meeting:
 
     
  David Reid (Natural History Museum, London, UK):
 
 
Islands: engines or endpoints of marine speciation?
 
     
  Dick Neves (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, US):  
 
Recovery of Endangered Mollusks in the U.S.A.: More than Just a Shell Game.
 
     
  Robert Cameron (University of Sheffield, UK):  
 
Time, space and very slow motion: patterns in the diversity of snails.
 
     
     
  Themes for the 5th Congress of the European Malacological Societies:  
     
 

1) Present and future challenges of fisheries and molluscan aquaculture;

 
 

2) From theory to practice: What we can do for freshwater molluscs conservation;

 
 

3) Origin, diversity and phylogeny of molluscs. Where are we?;

 
 

4) Biogeographical processes and patterns;

 
 

5) Molluscs as ecological models: from local patterns to global evolution;

 
6) Terrestrial molluscs: the perfect models for island biogeography?
 
7) Molluscs and Conservation Biology;
 
     
 
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Poster of the Congress
 

2nd AINIC,
2008

 

Freshwater
mussels’
conservation
workshop

 

Evolutionary
Biology of the
Muricidae
Symposium

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