Conferences

Island Biology 2019, III International Conference. Mario Mairal. What do wind-dispersed species tell us about loss of dispersal. Invited symposium speaker (Mario Mairal).

International Biogeography Society, 9^th biennial conference. Málaga, Spain. Mario Mairal, Mary Namaganda, Christian Brochmann, Pilar Catalán. Colonization and diversification of wind-dispersed Festuca grasses in Afroalpine sky-islands. Oral (Mario Mairal).

5^TH Symposium ANTARCTIC SANAP . Hermanus, South Africa. Mario Mairal, Bettine J. Van vuuren, John Chau, Johannes Le Roux. The origin of recent biological invasions in sub-Antarctic islands: the case of Poa annua. Oral (Mario Mairal).

Czech Ecological Conference 2017. Mario Mairal, Mária Šurinová, Silvia Castro, Zuzana Münzbergová. Disentangling speciation between Aster amellus cytotypes. Poster (Mario Mairal).

XIX International Botanical Congress (IBC). 2017. Shenzhen, China. Isabel Sanmartín, Tamara Villaverde, Lisa Pokorny, Mario Mairal, Sanna Olsson & Ricarda Riina. Exploring the evolutionary and ecological drivers behind intracontinental geographic disjunctions: the African Rand Flora. Abstract Book I. page 78: abstract T1-27-04. Oral (Isabel Sanmartín).

Floramac 2015. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Mario Mairal, Marisa Alarcón, Juan José Aldasoro, Lisa Pokorny, Isabel Sanmartín. A long history of climate-driven extinction has led Rand Flora lineages to find refugium in Macaronesia:  a deeper look at the Tenerife paleo-islands. Oral (Mario Mairal).

VIII RJB-CSIC Scientific Marathon. Madrid, Spain. Mario Mairal, Juan José Aldasoro, Marisa Alarcón, Isabel Sanmartín. Macroevolution and microevolution in island systems: the Rand Flora pattern in the Afro-macaronesian genus Canarina. Oral (Mario Mairal).

Evolution. North Carolina, USA. Lisa Pokorny, Ricarda Riina, Mario Mairal, Andrea Briega, Jon Cendoya, Isabel Sanmartín. The role of extinction in the assembly of large-scale biodiversity patterns. Oral (Lisa Pokorny).

IV SESBE Meeting. Barcelona, Spain. Mario Mairal, Lisa Pokorny, Ruth Jaén, Juli Caujapé, and Isabel Sanmartín. Disentangling the role of stepping-stone dispersal and large-scale extinction on wide ranging disjunctions: a case study on African Canarina flowers. Poster (Mario Mairal).

VII RJB-CSIC Scientific Marathon. Madrid, Spain. Mario Mairal, Juan José Aldasoro, Marisa Alarcón, Isabel Sanmartín. Historia de dos islas: extinción, dispersión y cambio climático en el género afromacaronésico Canarina. Oral (Mario Mairal).

II Iberian Congress of Biological Systematics (CISA 2013). Barcelona, Spain. Mario Mairal, Ruth Jaén, Juanjo Aldasoro, Marisa Alarcón, Juli Caujapé, Isabel Sanmartín. Plant evolution in island systems: population study of oceanic islands and continental sky-islands in the genus Canarina (Campanulaceae). Oral (Mario Mairal).

X Annual Ecoflor Meeting. Sevilla, Spain. Mario Mairal, Juan José aldasoro, Isabel Sanmartín, Pablo Vargas, Marisa Alarcón. Genetic structure of Canarina eminii, an epiphytic species of the East African Sky island forests. Oral (Marisa Alarcón).

VI Biennial Meeting of the International Biogeography Society. Miami, FL, USA. Mario Mairal, Lisa Pokorny, Ruth Jaén, Juli Caujapé, Isabel Sanmartín. Long-distance dispersal or large-scale extinction? Explaining the extreme Rand Flora disjunction in the bellflower genus Canarina. Poster (Mario Mairal).

II UNESCO Chair Meeting for Plant Biodiversity Conservation in Macaronesia and Western Africa. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,Spain. Mario Mairal, Juli Caujapé, Ruth Jaén, Marisa Alarcón, Juan José Aldasoro, Isabel Sanmartín. Solving the mystery of the Rand Flora pattern: islands in the sky ‘vs’. oceanic islands. Oral (Mario Mairal).

FloraMac 2012. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. Mario Mairal, Juan José Aldasoro, Marisa Alarcón, Isabel Sanmartín. Long-distance dispersal or large-scale extinction? Explaining the extreme Rand Flora disjunction in the bellflower genus Canarina. Poster (Mario Mairal).

V RJB-CSIC Scientific Marathon. Madrid, Spain. Mario Mairal, Juan José Aldasoro, Marisa Alarcón, Isabel Sanmartín. A biogeographical mystery: the disjunction of Afro-Macaronesian genus Canarina (Campanulacee). Oral (Mario Mairal).

VIII Annual Ecoflor Meeting. Toledo, Spain. Mario Mairal, Isabel Sanmartín, Juan José Aldasoro, Marisa Alarcón. Canarina phylogeographic study, a genus of Afro-Macaronesian distribution. Oral (Mario Mairal).

II Jornadas de Liquenología. Bragança, Portugal. A.R. Burgaz, G. Amo, L. Mauro, M. Mairal. Contribución al estudio del género Cladonia en la Península Ibérica. V. Cladonia clorophaea y taxones afines. Oral (A. R. Burgaz).