Sessions

-Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation:

Any subjects linked to conservation biology and biological diversity. This includes studies of Earth's ecosystems, molecular diversity, distribution, abundance and dynamics of micro- to macroscopic organisms, and their interactions with both other life-forms and/or physical environment. Submissions about philosophy and epistemology are also allowed.

-Humanities and Natural Sciences:

This session is focused on the interactions between anthropological and natural sciences. We consider abstracts dealing with relations between: modern human societies and their environment (human ecology, ethnobiology, museology of natural history...); past human societies and their environment using archaeological and historical data (physical anthropology, prehistory, interaction between proto-historical/historical societies and nature). Submissions about philosophy and epistemology dealing with interactions between natural and human sciences are also welcomed.

-Systematics, Evolution and Comparative Anatomy:

Any aspects of comparative anatomy and morphology, evo-devo, experimental evolution, palaeobiology, taxonomy, phylogenetic and phylogeography, theories and models.

-Earth and Planetary Sciences:

Any topics related to climatology, biogeochemistry, cosmochemistry and cosmology, geochemistry, geology, geomorphology, glaciology, hydrology and limnology, mineralogy, oceanography, paleoecology, biostratigraphy, paleobiogeography, palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, taphonomy, petrology, tectonics, volcanology.

-Evolutionary Ecology:

Any problematics related to the mecanisms of evolution in relation with the physico-chemical and biological environment of species. Specifically: life- history trait evolution (behaviour and anatomic traits), phenotypic plasticity, population genetics, adaptative radiatio.

Special session

-Methods in natural sciences :

This session is devoted to presentations with an original use of standard methods in natural History, innovative methods, thoughts on existing methods and reflection on the general concepts of natural History.

A keynote speaker will open each of these multidisciplinary themes with a lecture on a relevant topic.