| Collab. | INTRACO | Unravelling the role of intraspecific variability in tree species coexistence in tropical forest | 16.-20.05.2022 25.-29.09.2023
 | Ghislain Vieilledent Isabelle Marechaux
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| Collab. | UNICOP | Unification of modern Coexistence theory and Price equation | 05.-09.09.2022 15-19.01.2024
 | A. Bradley Duthie Sébastien Lion
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| Collab. | FunProd | Relationships between functional diversity and food production and quality under ecological intensification | 04-06.05.2021 28.03.-01.04.2022
 29.11.-01.12.2022
 | Klaus Birkhof |  | 
| JISC | sEcoCarbonMarkets | Integrating ecosystems in carbon markets | tba | Martin Quaas |  | 
| JISC | sModelProBio | Modelling the way forward for protecting biodiversity during climate change | 09.03. – 13.03.2026
 | Greta Bocedi Damaris Zurell
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| SF | sRealBioFun | Using long-term resurvey data and biodiversity experiments to predict ecosystem consequences of real-world biodiversity change | 07.04. – 10.04.2025 27.04. – 30.04.2026
 | Yuxin Chen Donald Waller
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| SF | sMacrobehaviour | Disentangling Drivers of Geographic Variation in Vertebrate Behaviour | 03.03. – 07.03.2025 | Sally Keith Katharine Marske
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| SF | sMacroS | Towards a synthesis in soil fauna macroecology | 19.05. – 22.05.2025 | Anton PotapovNico Eisenhauer |  | 
| SF | sRED | The Range Edge Dynamics (RED) Working Group | 05.05. – 09.05.2025 | Jean-Philippe Lessard Katie Marshall
 |  | 
| SF | sDETERMINE | Direct and Indirect Effects of Mining on Global Ecosystems and Biodiversity | tba | Victor Maus Arildo Dias
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| SF | sTREND | Synthesis on tree Traits REsponse to Neighboring Diversity | 07.07 – 11.07.2025 30.03. – 02.04.2026
 | Hervé Jactel Simone Mereu
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| SF | sEXCRETE | Examining Consumer Resource Exchange in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems | 08.12. -12.12.2025 | Amanda Subalusky Elizabeth le Roux Angélica González |  | 
| SF | sCREATE | Participatory decision-making for conservation in human-wildlife conflict contexts: synthesising expertise from research and practice | 03.03 – 06.03.2025 | Emily Massingham Hugh Possingham |  | 
| ECR | sNext | The future of ecological networks under extreme climate change | 23.06 – 27.06.2025 | Nuria Galiana Juan David González-Trujillo
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| SF | sIBTEDS | sIBTEDS – Illuminating Blindspots Through Equitable Data reuse practices in the global South | workshops & data training in Latin America, scientific
 staff support
 | Stephanie Jurburg Silvia Garaycochea
 Eva Figuerola
 | Clara María Arboleda Baena | 
| SF | sBombus | Leveraging artificial intelligence for global bumble bee monitoring and conservation | 03.-07.06.2024 | Brian Spiesman Christina Grozinger
 Tiffany Knight
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| SF | sSCAT | Fit-for-purpose models and frameworks for understanding and managing diverse social-ecological area-based conservation systems | 22.-25.04.2024 | Alta De Vos Graeme Cumming
 |  | 
| SF | sARDINE | spAtial tRenDs IN fish Ethodiversity | 22.-26.04.2024 16.-20.09.2024
 | Christopher Monk |  | 
| SF | sTime | The dynamics of community turnover across space and time | 08.-12.04.2024 | Pincelli Hull Erin Saupe
 Marina Rillo
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| ECR | sFragment | Disentangling effects of fragmentation and habitat loss on functional diversity | 10.- 14.06.2024 | Andres Felipe Suarez Castro |  | 
| ECR | sConsume | How does biodiversity drive disease and herbivory in a changing world? | 22.-26.01.2024 | Fletcher Halliday Suz Everingham
 Mayank Kohli
 |  | 
| ECR | sPectra | The major dimensions of plant spectral variation | 27.-31.05.2024 | Shan Kothari Teja Kattenborn
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| ECR | sFutures | Integrating functional and phylogenetic underpinnings into restoration science | 26.02.-01.03.2024 10.-14.06.2024
 | Magda Garbowski Emma Ladouceur
 |  | 
| ECR | sMoste | Motifs supporting STability of Ecosystem services | 02.-05.05.2023 03.-07.06.2024
 | Kate Wootton Anshuman Swain
 |  | 
| SF | sELOdiv | sELOdiv: Synthesising Ecosystem and Land cover Observations and biodiversity change after abandonment and depopulation | tba | Gergana Daskalova Sylvia Dyulgerova
 |  | 
| SF | sCaleGrassDiv | Do the mechanisms of land-use effects on grassland plant diversity depend on spatial scales and environmental contexts? | 30.01.-03.02.2023 06.-10.11.2023
 27.-31.05.2024
 | Anna Kuzemko Oksana Buzhdygan
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| SF | sUnderfoot | Functional diversity of belowground plant strategies in a rapidly changing world | 09.-13.01.2023 13.-17.11.2023
 | Joana Bergmann Alessandra Fidelis
 | Karl Andraczek | 
| SF | sGUBIK | Synthesizing Global Urban Biological Invasion Knowledge (sGUBIK): Patterns, Mechanisms, and Applications | 25.-29.09.2023 14.-18.10.2024
 | Luke Potgieter Daijiang Li
 |  | 
| SF | sReStoReS | Restoration Synthesis to Reimagine Success | no meeting, only scientific staff support | Emma Ladouceur Jonathan Chase
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| SF | sIntESE | Integrating ecosystem services into economic models | 05.-09.12.2022 04.-08.03.2024
 | Alexandra Marques Aafke Schipper
 |  | 
| SF | sOilFauna | sOilFauna: How human activities impact soil macrofauna communities and how it relates to primary productivity? A global synthesis. | 02.-06.05.2022 21.-24.05.2024
 | Jerome Mathieu Nico Eisenhauer
 |  | 
| SF | sILK | Synthesizing Indigenous and Local Knowledge worldviews to develop frameworks for effective operationalization of relational values in environmental governance | 25.-29.07.2022 
 | Austin Himes Barbara Muraca
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| SF | sINTERVAL | INTERaction Variation along ALtitudinal gradients | 05.-09.12.2022 | Tiffany Knight |  | 
| ECR | sPSF | Soil microbial controls over plant coexistence: synthesizing data and theory to unravel context dependence of plant-soil feedbacks under global change | 25.-28.10.2021 (fully virtual)
 04.-07.10.2022
 26.-30.06.2023
 | Gaurav Kandlikar Meghna Krishnadas
 |  | 
| ECR | sEnigmas | Seeing the forest instead of the trees: identifying the common mechanisms behind enigmas of biodiversity | 22.-25.11.2021 19.-22.07.2022
 06.-10.11.2023
 | Isaac Overcast Ana C. Afonso Silva
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| ECR | sMars | Synthesis of movement across scales: towards a process-based prediction of biodiversity patterns | 16.-20.05.2022 13.-17.05.2023
 13.-17.05.2024
 | Remo Ryser Myriam Hirt
 |  | 
| WG | sMiLE | Synthesising plant Metabolomics into biodiversity, Life history & Ecology | 09.-13.11.2020 (fully virtual)
 25.-29.10.2021
 (hybrid)
 04-08-07.2022 23.-27.10.2023
 | Tom Walker Franziska Schrodt
 |  | 
| WG | sPRINT | Working out the mechanics of predator-prey interactions to predict the present and future of biodiversity in food webs | 12.-16.10.2020 (fully virtual)
 02.-05.11.2021
 (hybrid)
 | Mehdi Cherif |  | 
| WG | sTRAITS | Integrating  in-situ, upscaled and air- and spaceborne observations of plant traits | 24.-29.10.2021 (hybrid)
 07.-10.06.2022
 19.-23.06.2023
 | Philip A. Townsend Ryan Pavlick
 | Benjamin Dechant | 
| WG | sTeTra | Quantifying temporal change in traits across taxa and the globe | 06.-10.12.2021 0.05.-03.06.2022
 08.-12.05.2023
 15.-19.04.2024
 | Franziska Schrodt Maria Dornelas
 |  | 
| WG | sTradES | Ecosystem services, biodiversity and anthropogenic capital embedded in internationally traded goods | 12.-16.09.2022 04.-08.09.2023
 | C.J.E. (Nynke) Schulp Thomas Kastner
 |  | 
| WG | sRedList | Accelerating IUCN Red List assessments for rapid and effective biodiversity monitoring | 22.-25.03.2021 (fully virtual)
 14.-16.03.2022
 14.-17.03.2023
 | Luca Santini Moreno Di Marco
 | Victor Cazalis | 
| WG | sPriority | Mechanisms and Quantification of Priority Effects | 27.09.-01.10.2021 26.-30.09.2022
 09.-13.10.2023
 | Benjamin Delory Tadashi Fukami
 |  | 
| WG | sDevTrait | Streamlining development efforts in tools for ecological trait analyses | 26.-30.10.2020 (fully virtual)
 31.08.-03.09.2021
 (hybrid)
 08.-11.08.2022
 | Alexander Keller Markus Ankenbrand
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| WG | sUCCESS | Pantropical forest succession | 16.-20.12.2019 29.11.-03.12.2021
 21.-25.11.2022
 | Lourens Poorter Nadja Rueger
 Michiel van Breugel
 |  | 
| WG | sCom | Advancing inference for eDNA and other novel, high-throughput community data | 11.-15.10.2021 09.-13.05.2022
 | Florian Hartig Douglas Yu
 |  | 
| WG | sCoRRE | Assessing functional consequences of community changes with global change using trait-based and phylogenetic approaches | 09.-13.12.2019 13.-17.12.2021
 12.-16.12.2022
 | Meghan Avolio Kimberly Komatsu
 |  | 
| WG | sBIOMAPS | Exploring BIOgeographic and MAcroevolutionary Patterns in organismal Stoichiometric diversity | 25.-29.11.2019 08.-12.02.2021
 (fully virtual)
 08.-12.11.2021
 (hybrid)
 28.11.-2.12.2022
 | Angelica Gonzalez Olivier Dézerald
 |  | 
| WG | sToration | Applying Coexistence Theory to Restoration Ecology and Adaptive Management | 21.-24.10.2019 13.-17.06.2022
 20.-23.06.2023
 | Lauren Shoemaker Lauren Hallett
 Akasha Faist
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| WG | sANDES | Tree Diversity, Composition and Carbon Storage in Andean Tropical Montane Forests | 22.-25.01.2019 21.-24.01.2020
 | Luis Cayuela Manuel J. Macía
 |  | 
| WG | sYNGEO | The geography of synchrony in dendritic networks: understanding the causes, dynamics, and consequences across multiple scales | 14.-18.01.2019 29.07.-02.08.2019
 | Julian D Olden Lise Comte
 |  | 
| WG | sCaleWebs | Unifying environmental and spatial determinants of food web structure across spatial scales | 10.-14.12.2018 02.-06.12.2019
 18.-21.01.2021
 (fully virtual)
 11.-14.04.2022
 | Gustavo Q Romero Diane S Srivastava
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| WG | sREplot | Upscaling of individual species dynamics to community trends in biodiversity and composition using vegetation change data sets | 13.-16.11.2018 14.-17.05.2019
 | Lander Baeten Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
 Ute Jandt
 |  | 
| WG | sTreelines | Spatial pattern emergence from ecological processes at alpine treelines: model-supported hypothesis tests against globally-distributed field data | 03.-06.12.2018 11.-14.11.2019
 | Maaike Bader Bradley Case
 |  | 
| WG | sROOT | Root Trait functionality in a Whole-Plant Context | 22.-26.10.2018 06.-10.05.2019
 27.- 31.01.2020
 | Liesje Mommer Alexandra Weigelt
 |  | 
| WG | sTraitChange | How do trait responses to climate change translate into demographic rates and population dynamics? | 08.-11.10.2018 08.-11.04.2019
 | Viktoriia Radchuk Marcel E. Visser
 |  | 
| WG | sUrBio2050 | Assessing globally important areas for biodiversity preservation and human well-being | 04.-07.09.2018 30.09.-02.10.2019
 | Rob McDonald Henrique Pereira
 Thomas Elmqvist
 | Andressa Vianna Mansur | 
| WG | sTWIST | Theory and Workflows for Alien and Invasive Species Tracking | 20.-24.08.2018 03.-07.06.2019
 02.-05.06.2020
 19.-23.09.2022
 | Melodie McGeoch Marten Winter
 |  | 
| WG | sEcoEvo | Biodiversity Dynamics: The Nexus Between Space & Time | 19.-23.03.2018 13.-17.08.2018
 | Rosemary Gillespie Michael Hickerson
 |  | 
| WG | sELDiG | Explaining the latitudinal diversity gradient: synthesizing knowledge via data-driven mechanistic modelling | 16.-20.10.2017 11.-15.06.2018
 | Allen Hurlbert Catherine Graham
 |  | 
| WG | sLandServ | Linking Landscape Structure to Ecosystem Services | 11.-14.12.2017 02.-06.07.2018
 | Jonathan Rhodes Jean Paul Metzger
 |  | 
| WG | sOcioLock-in | Understanding the undesirable resilience in socio-ecological systems driving biodiversity loss | 05.-09.02.2018 04.-07.06.2018
 | Tom Oliver Emily Boyd
 |  | 
| WG | sTURN | Does time drive space? Building a mechanistic linkage between spatial and temporal turnover in metacommunities | 06.-10.11.2017 05.-09.11.2018
 | Zsófia Horváth Robert Ptacnik
 |  | 
| WG | sUrBioCity | Deciphering Drivers of Urban Biodiversity across Multiple Scales | 09.-13.10.2017 09.-13.04.2018
 | Christopher Swan |  | 
| WG | sMon | Synthesis and evaluation of monitoring data in Germany | 27.-28.11.2017 22.-24.01.2018
 23.-27.01.2023
 | Florian Jansen Aletta Bonn
 Helge Bruelheide
 | David Eichenberg | 
| WG | sECURE | Separating Environmental Changes and their effects on commUnity tRaits in European butterflies | 15.-19.05.2017 16.-20.04.2018
 | Oliver Schweiger Josef Settele
 |  | 
| WG | sWORM | A global soil biodiversity database and its application to data synthesis and theory development | 14-17.03.2017 13.-16.11.2017
 | Erin Cameron Nico Eisenhauer
 | Helen Phillips | 
| WG | sMonodominance | Towards a unifying theory of the emergence and maintenance of monodominance in species-rich tropical forests | 31.01.-03.02.2017 23.-26.01.2018
 | Andreas Huth Kelvin Peh
 |  | 
| WG | sCAP | Testing the conservation value of phylogenetic diversity | 05.-08.12.2016 02.-05.05.2017
 | Arne Mooers Caroline M. Tucker
 |  | 
| WG | sTeleBES | Telecoupled use of biodiversity and ecosystem services: synthesis of concepts, methods and evidence | 28.11.-02.12.2016 25.-29.09.2017
 | Matthias Schröter Thomas Koellner
 Aletta Bonn
 |  | 
| WG | sAPROPOS | Analysis of PROjections of POpulationS | 23.-25.11.2016 06.-10.02.2017
 12.-16.06.2017
 | Roberto Salguero-Gomez |  | 
| WG | sPRED | Synthesizing Predictability Research of Ecological Dynamics | 07.-11.11.2016 23.-27.10.2017
 | Frank Pennekamp Alison Iles
 |  | 
| WG | sFDvent | A functional trait perspective on the global biodiversity of hydrothermal vent communities | 10.-13.10.2016 24.-28.04.2017
 | Amanda Bates Abbie Chapman
 |  | 
| WG | sCAFE | Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems in Open Systems | 29.02.-04.03.2016 13.-17.06.2016
 | Morgan Ernest Mathew Leibold
 | Katherine Bannar-Martin | 
| WG | sChange | Quantifying biodiversity change through time | 22.-26.02.2016 | Sarah Supp Maria Dornelas
 |  | 
| WG | sPLAT | Synthesis on Pollen Limitation And Terrestrial biodiversity | 25.-29.01.2016 | Tiffany Knight Tia-Lynn Ashman
 Janette Steets
 |  | 
| WG | sNiche | Expanding Neo-Chessonian coexistence theory towards a stochastic theory for species rich communities | 18.-20.01.2016 06.-08.06.2016
 | Thorsten Wiegand Stan Harpole
 |  | 
| WG | sToichNutNet | Linking ecological stoichiometry with environment‐diversity-productivity relationships in grasslands | 11.-14.01.2016 09.-12.01.2017
 19.-22.06.2017
 | Elizabeth Borer Anne Ebeling
 |  | 
| WG | sMarD | Global Changes in Marine Plankton Diversity and Productivity | 30.11.-04.12.2015 | Aleksandra Lewandowska Boris Worm
 |  | 
| WG | sFIND | Functional Information: its potential for quantifying biodiversity and its relation to ecosystem functioning | 07.-11.09.2015 | Keith Farnsworth Ivo Große
 |  | 
| WG | Human decision making | Synthesis of micro-scale human decision making to mitigate risks to ecosystem services | 29.06.-03.07.2015 | Maja Schlüter Marco Janssen
 |  | 
| WG | sTEP | Synthesising Trait Evolution in Plants | 18.-21.05.2015 | William Pearse Jeannine Cavender-Bares
 |  | 
| WG | LU-BD-ES | Effects of land use on the trade-off between biodiversity and provisioning ecosystem services | 20.-24.04.2015 | Ralf Seppelt |  | 
| WG | sESMOD | Next Generation Models for Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity | 14.-17.04.2015 | Elena Bennett Gretchen Daily
 |  | 
| WG | sErvices | Can ecological network information improve the efficacy of biodiversity conservation for ecosystem services in the face of unavoidable uncertainty? | 16.-20.03.2015 04.-08.04.2016
 | Laura Dee Steven Gaines
 |  | 
| WG | sEpiDiv | Towards understanding the causes and consequences of epigenetic diversity | 02.-06.03.2015 23.-25.09.2015
 | Katrin Heer Lars Opgenoorth
 |  | 
| WG | Acacia invasions | Anticipatory governance and societal feedbacks in socio-environmental transitions: multi-continental acacia invasions as a model system | 16.-19.02.2015 | Dave Richardson Christoph Kueffer
 |  | 
| WG | JSCM | International Joint Synthesis Centre Meeting | 27.-30.01.2015 | Marten Winter |  | 
| WG | sEcoToxDiv | Ecotoxicology for B-EF research: experimental design of aquatic multi-trophic experiments | 15.-18.12.2014 | Frederik De Laender Paul Van den Brink
 |  | 
| WG | sFunDivEUROPE | Synthesis workshop | 24.-26.11.2014 | Eric Allan Lars Gamfeld
 |  | 
| WG | sRareBioS | Importance of rare microbes for soil ecosystem services | 25.-28.11.2014 | Gera Hol Alexandre Jousset
 |  | 
| WG | sUMMITDiv | Europe’s alpine flora: past, present and future | 10.-20.11.2014 | Sonja Wipf |  | 
| WG | sWEEP | Synthetizing Worldwide Ecology, Evolution and Physiology | 21.-24.10.2014 | Miguel Ángel Olalla Tárraga Ignacio Morales Castilla
 | Joanne Bennett | 
| WG | Biodiversity Change | Debating the existence of local biodiversity loss and developing new projects to build consensus | 10.-12.10.2014 | Forest Isbell Nico Eisenhauer
 |  | 
| WG | Urban ESS | Ecological and Social Linkages among Biodiversity, ESS, and Environmental Policy and Management in the World’s Cities | 01.-04.07.2014 | Myla Aronson Charles Nilon
 |  | 
| WG | From water to land | Exploring the linkages between anthropogenically-driven shifts in marine and terrestrial biodiversity and ESS in a rapidly globalizing coastal region within a biodiversity hotspot | 16.-19.06.2014 | Seeta Sistla Daniel Kramer
 |  | 
| WG | Restoration Synthesis | Feedbacks between biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services during the recovery process of restored ecosystems after anthropogenic disturbance | 26.-28.05.2014 | David Moreno Holly P. Jones
 |  | 
| WG | sFOSSIL | Integrating Phylogenies, Fossils and Earth System Dynamics | 05.-08.05.2014 | Jan Schnitzler Andreas Mulch
 |  | 
| WG | sOILDIV | A framework to improve our understanding of the distribution of global soil biodiversity: establishing the first quantitative synthesis | 01.-04.04.2014 | Diana Wall Kelly Ramirez
 | Kelly Ramirez | 
| WG | sTREEDIV | Using Tree Diversity as an Insurance for the Stable Functioning of Forest Ecosystems | 17.-21.03.2014 | Andy Hector Bart Muys
 | Simon Bilodeau-Gauthier | 
| WG | sTUNDRA | Tundra ecosystem change: Scaling shrub expansion from site to biome | 24.02.-07.03.2014 04.–08.05.2015
 | Isla Myers-Smith Sarah Elmendorf
 | Anne Bjorkman | 
| WG | sCoMuCra | Species communities harboring the outcome of plant diversification: museums and cradles | 06.-11.01.2014 | Andreas Prinzing | Benjamin Yguel | 
| WG | sREGPOOL | Biodiversity across spatial scales – linking macroecological models to local-scale biodiversity patterns by explicit delineation of the regional species pool | 02.-06.12.2013 | Dirk Nikolaus Karger Jens-Christian
 Svenning
 |  | 
| WG | sTOICHFUN | Stoichiometric constraints of biodiversity – functioning relationships | 25.-29.10.2013 | Helmut Hillebrand | Aleksandra Lewandowska | 
| WG | sPHY | Synthesizing phylogenetic measures for ecology and conservation | 19.-22.11.2013 20.-23.05.2014
 | Marc Cadotte Dan Rosauer
 |  | 
| WG | rangeShifter | Synthesising population, community, genetic and evolutionary dynamics in a simulation platform: a tool for theory and application | 28.10.-01.11.2013 08.-12.09.2014
 | Justin Travis 
 Alexander Singer
 | Alexander Singer | 
| WG | sTability | Plant diversity effects on ecosystem resistance to and recovery from perturbations | 21.-23.10.2013 06.-10.10.2014
 | Nico Eisenhauer Forest Isbell
 | Dylan Craven | 
| WG | TRANs-BEE | Synthesising transcriptome data to explore interspecies bee-pathogen molecular interactions that may underpin pollinator decline | 10.-11.10.2013 28.-29.04.2014
 | Christina Grozinger Robert Paxton
 | Vincent Doublet | 
| WG | Physiodiv | Biodiversity meets Physiology – Physiology meets Biodiversity | 26.-27.09.2013 | Christian Wilhelm |  | 
| WG | TRY | Towards a sustainable archive and sharing-mechanism for plant trait data: Refining the TRY initiative | 03.-05.09.2013 | Jens Kattge |  | 
| WG | sPlot | Plant trait-environment relationships, biodiversity and invasion patterns across the world’s biomes | 06.-09.03.2013 02.-05.12.2014
 24.-28.10.2016
 | Helge Bruelheide Oliver Purschke
 Jürgen Dengler
 |  | 
| WG | sMGI | 3rd Mycorrhizal Genomics Initiative | 09.-10.07.2013 | François Buscot Sylvie Herrmann
 |  | 
| WG | sImpact | Impact of invasive alien species: prediction and quantification | 01.-04.07.2013 | Sabrina Kumschick |  | 
| WG | ECOTRON | Next generation biodiversity manipulation: Technical requirements for an ecotron platform | 06.-07.06.2013 | Stefan Meldau Nico Eisenhauer
 |  | 
| WG | Inaugural Workshop | Integrative Biodiversity Research – a young discipline under time pressure | 19.-21.04.2013 | Christian Wirth Marten Winter
 |  |