CUNYには進化生態学者やマクロ生態学者が数多く在籍しています。アナ先生は主に南米の両生類を材料にして、生物地理・マクロ生態学の分析をされています。種分布モデルMaxent開発に関わられたアンダーソン先生も在籍しておられます。また、アジアの生物多様性やその保全計画に関心を持っている研究者も多いです。このような背景から、お互いの研究グループのアイデアやデータを共有して協働研究を展開できるようなネットワーク形成を進めたいというのが、今回のシンポの趣旨でした。沖縄の研究グループとCUNYそれぞれの研究者が講演をして、お互いの研究アプローチを理解できました。どの発表もレベルが高くて、また双方の研究アプローチが類似しているのに驚きました。また、JSPSワシントン研究連絡センターからも支援に来て頂き、JSPSの若手研究者交流や国際共同研究グラントについて説明して頂き、将来的に展開がありそうで楽しみです。
Ana Carnaval: City College of New York, CUNY
Welcoming remarks
Kohji Hirata: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Introduction to JSPS
Yasuhiro Kubota: University of the Ryukyus
Global-scale analysis of woody plant fossils through the Cenozoic: a contrasting biodiversity loss between tropical and temperate biomes under a changing climate
Buntaro Kusumoto: University of the Ryukyus
Macroecology and systematic conservation planning with species occurrence records: from the East Asian islands to the world
Junichi Fujinuma: University of the Ryukyus
Compiling plant diversity data in Southeast Asia: a symbiotic partnership between research projects and local herbaria
David Lohman: City College of New York, CUNY
Evolution and biogeography of butterflies in Southeast Asia and beyond
Kyle McDonald: City College of New York, CUNY
Monitoring terrestrial ecosystems with spaceborne microwave remote sensing: Multidisciplinary research addressed with JAXA’s imaging radars
Michael Hickerson: City College of New York, CUNY
Leveraging high throughput ecology and population genetics for biogeographic inference and prediction
Masahiro Ueda: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research cooperation with Japan
Laura Bertola: City College of New York, CUNY
Comparative phylogeography and adaptive genomics in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil using genome-wide SNP and spatially explicit climatic data
Melina Giakoumis: City College of New York, CUNY
Population genomics of sea stars in the North Atlantic
Takayuki Shiono: University of the Ryukyus
Biodiversity gradients of vascular plants along latitude and elevation on the east Asian continental islands
Andrea Paz: City College of New York, CUNY
Mapping diversity and its environmental correlates in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Cong Liu: University of the Ryukyus
Understanding the eco-evolutionary processes shaping ant biodiversity in the Pacific Archipelago
Nao Takashina: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
How can the distribution of species-range size be explained?
Jamie M. Kass: City College of New York, CUNY
Using multispecies occupancy models to examine how co-occurrence patterns change over environmental gradients: invasive raccoons in a carnivoran assemblage in Japan
Robert P. Anderson and Peter J. Galante: City College of New York, CUNY; American Museum of Natural History
The Wallace software for modeling species distributions: ongoing expansion for conservation