The Australian Marine Sciences Association - New Zealand Marine Sciences Society conference approaches quickly! The theme of the conference this year is: Marine Extremes - And Everything In Between. The words suggest a creative reflection of the environmental events of the past year and cover extreme events such as cyclones, floods, tsunamis, dust storms, thermally-induced bleaching, hypoxia, ocean acidification, biological invasions or ecosystem shifts, which can periodically dominate the marine realm. Amongst the proposed symposia, me (AIMS) and Daniel Gledhill (CSIRO – Hobart) will run symposium SS01 “Hidden species in the Oceans: environmental extremes, rapid cladogenesis and morphological stasis”. We expect to have constructive discussions and our five selected presentations to point the finger towards biogeographical barriers and large scale geological or climatic events responsible for past population fragmentation and genetic differentiation associated with morphological stasis and instances of cryptic speciation. We hope to emphasize the challenges related to biodiversity estimates, conservation and evolutionary consequences.
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