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"Biodiversity of terrestrial earthworms in Taiwan" Huei-Ping Shen Friday, 14th March 2003: 11.00am - 12.00am DBS Life Sciences Lab
7A Visitors may park at
Carpark 10 Host: Darren Yeo About the Talk "There are 50 nominal species of terrestrial earthworms in Taiwan. The genera Amynthas and Metaphire of the family Megascolecidae are dominant and include 42 species, 26 of which are native. The native species occur primarily in less disturbed areas in hills and mountains with species-specific altitudinal stratification in distribution. The exotic species occur in disturbed environments from the lowland plains to an elevation of 2100 m, and altitudinal stratification is shown only for the maximum ranges. Highly diverse environments in the Central Mountain Range constitute geographical barriers that result in population isolation and allopatric differentiation (speciation and subspeciation). Endemicity is higher in high elevations than low elevations. With the decrease in elevation, the number of native species decreased, while the number of exotic species increased, suggesting the occurrence of species shift from native forms to exotic forms in the earthworm community."  ALL ARE WELCOME!
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Locations of venues, Dept. Biological Sciences, NUS Please
refer to this map Seminar Room 3
(SR3) Life Sciences Lab
7A-D Lecture Theatre 32 Raffles Museum To be kept appraised of the meetings of the Biodiversity Journal Club, please subscribe to the Ecotax Mailing List For updates on Natural History news in Singapore, see Habitatnews Meetings of the Biodiversity & Ecology Journal Club, 2003 Jaap J. Vermeulen - "Sulawesi - Straddling East and West". 4th March 2003 Tzi Ming Leong, Daisy Wowor & Darren Yeo - "Natuna Revisited: A preliminary survey of Pulau Natuna Besar". 25th Feb 2003. Astrid van Meeuwen - "Why do kereru (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) eat what they eat?". 21st Feb 2003. [Eco@Woodlands] |
