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1st International Palaeobiogeography Symposium (part I)

UMR 5143 "Paléobiodiversité et Paléoenvironnements", Symposium Organizer

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The "1st International Palaeobiogeography Symposium" was held in Paris from 10^th to the 13^th of July 2007 at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) and organized by the CNRS research unit UMR 5143 "Paléobiodiversité et Paléoenvironnements", which gathers scientists based at both UPMC and Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN). More than 120 participants attended the symposium and 24 countries were represented.

These numbers highlight the interest on palaeobiogeographic subjects that we wanted to rejuvenate through the symposium. The latter was based on two distinct lines of reasoning: Paris on one hand and the need of bringing together the communities of neontologists and palaeontologists on the other.

Paris is the home of Biogeography. It is here that Lamarck and De Candolle created the first biogeographic map in 1805 (the distribution and boundaries of floristic regions of France). Moreover, the oldest Biogeographical Society in the world (Société Française de Biogéographie) is also based in Paris.

The most important theoretical concepts of biogeography (including palaeobiogeography) have been proposed . . . [Full Text of this Article]