Current studies on past biodiversity in South-East Asia

Dear colleague, welcome to the workshop "Current studies on past biodiversity in South-East Asia” that will be held June, 9th-11th, 2021. It is a follow up of the “paleobiodiversity in South-East Asia” session that was organised during the 5th International Congress of Paleontology in Paris in 2018. It is designed to answer the need for an international social and scientific event considering the growing interest in the international community regarding the dynamic of past biodiversity in what is considered as one of the most threatened biodiversity hotspots today. The workshop will welcome presentations covering all geological and historical times, from the deep to the recent past. It is therefore open to topics in paleobiology, paleontology, evolution, anthropology, phylogeography, extinction and diversification processes. We shall accept reviews, but the priority will be given to original studies and recent discoveries. Because of the current sanitary crisis, the workshop will be held online. The participation to the workshop is free of charge, but participants must register. The call for communications will open from March the 20th and abstracts must be submitted to the same website by May the 11th.Sessions will be held in the afternoon (Bangkok time zone) in order to allow a maximum of worldwide participants to take part in the event. Each session will start with a 30 minutes keynote regarding recent discoveries about past biodiversity in south-East Asia. We are looking forward seeing you soon. The organizing committee