| Collab. | UNICOP | Unification of modern Coexistence theory and Price equation | 05.-09.09.2022
15-19.01.2024 | A. Bradley Duthie
Sébastien Lion | |
| 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 | |
|
SF
|
sRealBioFun
| Using long-term resurvey data and biodiversity experiments to predict ecosystem consequences of real-world biodiversity change
| 07.04. – 10.04.2025
| Yuxin Chen
Donald Waller | |
|
SF
|
sMacrobehaviour
| Disentangling Drivers of Geographic Variation in Vertebrate Behaviour
| 03.03. – 07.03.2025
| Sally Keith
Katharine Marske | |
|
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 | |
|
SF
|
sTREND
| Synthesis on tree Traits REsponse to Neighboring Diversity
| 07.07 – 11.07.2025
| Hervé Jactel
Simone Mereu | |
|
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 | |
|
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 | |
|
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 | |
|
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 | |
|
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 | |
|
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 | |
|
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 | |
|
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 | |
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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
| |
|
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
| |
