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  • Oct 29th 2009. D. Alonso. The species abundance distribution. Organized Oral Session. Benelux Congress of Zoology annual meeting, held alternating in The Netherlands and Belgium, organised by the Royal Dutch Zoological Society and the Royal Belgian Zoological Society.
  • Aug 5th 2009. D. Alonso and M. Pascual. Threshold response of malaria dynamics to warmer temperatures in an East African highland. Contributed Oral Session. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America at Albuquerque, NM. USA.
  • From Aug 7th to Aug 30th 2009. Visit to Annette Ostling and Mercedes Pascual University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • May 22rd-27th 2009. Visit to Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hamshire.
  • May 3rd-4th 2009. Invited seminar at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
  • From Apr 15th to May 22th 2009. Visit to Annette Ostling and Mercedes Pascual University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • May 2009. Participation in the Minisymposium on Stochastic Dynamics in Population Biology at the SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems with a talk entitled Stochastic fluctuations close to instability boundaries: relevance for Community Ecology and Infectious diseases.
  • From Oct 11th to Oct 15th. 2008. Visit to Carlos Melian and Stefano Allesina at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Systhesis, Santa Barbara, CA.
  • From Oct 6th to Oct 10th. 2008. Working group on Tools and Fresh Approaches for Species Abundances Distributions at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Systhesis, Santa Barbara, CA.
  • From Aug 15th to Oct 5th 2008. Visit to Annette Ostling and Mercedes Pascual University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • From Jun 13th to Jul 6th 2008. Visit to Annette Ostling, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • From Jun 9th to Jun 13th 2008. Visit to Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • From Feb 25th to Mar 18th 2008. Visit to Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • Mar 15th 2008. Early Career Scientists Symposium on Networks in Ecology and Evolution organized by the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UofM, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • Feb 12-13th 2008. R. S. Etienne and D. Alonso. Organized session on Biodiversity Theory. Talk on Species Abundances and Symmetry in Community Ecology, NERN Annual Meeting, Lunteren, The Netherlands.
  • Oct 24-26th 2007. Invited seminar at the University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.
  • Oct 15-19th 2007. Working group on Tools and Fresh Approaches for Species Abundances Distributions at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Systhesis, Santa Barbara, CA.
  • Oct 5-6th 2007. The theory of island biogeography at 40. Impacts and prospects. Harvard University.
  • Aug 9th 2007. D. Alonso and M. Pascual. Shifting patterns: Infectious disease dynamics in a changing world. Organized Oral Session. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America at San Jose, CA. USA.
  • Aug 7th 2007. S. Allesina, D. Alonso, and M. Pascual. Evidence for niches in food web data: A likelihood-based approach. Contributed Oral Session. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America at San Jose, CA. USA.
  • Apr 2007. VENI award from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to the project ``New stochastic sampling theory to understand the evolutionary assembly of diverse host-pathogens networkds'' [MOV] to be developed at the University of Groningen under the supervision of Han Olff.
  • Feb 2nd 2007. Seminar on The Merits of the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity. Estacion Biologica de Donona, Sevilla, Spain.
  • Nov 9th 2006. Seminar on The Merits of the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity. Biology Department. Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
  • From Oct 20th to Nov 1st. 2006. Working group on Tools and Fresh Approaches for Species Abundances Distributions at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Systhesis, Santa Barbara, CA.
  • Conservation and Community Ecology, University of Groningen  
    PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
    Phone: (+31) 50 363 2224
    Fax: (+31) 50 363 2273

    d.alonso@rug.nl



    Acknowledments:
  • Jordi Bascompte helped with web page design.
  • Ruben de Bruin took the picture of mine at Michingan Union, Ann Arbor, MI, May 2005.
  • Annelieke Dirks took the other picture of mine in Schiermonnikoog, the Netherlands, May 2007.