Acronym / Akronym | Title / Titel | Date / Datum | PI | Postdoc |
sMile | Synthesising plant Metabolomics into biodiversity, Life history & Ecology | 9.-13.11.2020 (fully virtual) | Tom Walker Franziska Schrodt | |
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) | Mehdi Cherif | |
sTRAITS | Integrating in-situ, upscaled and air- and spaceborne observations of plant traits | tbd | Philip A. Townsend Ryan Pavlick | Benjamin Dechant |
sTeTra | Quantifying temporal change in traits across taxa and the globe | tbd | Franziska Schrodt Maria Dornelas | |
sTradES | Ecosystem services, biodiversity and anthropogenic capital embedded in internationally traded goods | 20-24.09.2021 | C.J.E. (Nynke) Schulp Thomas Kastner | |
sRedList | Accelerating IUCN Red List assessments for rapid and effective biodiversity monitoring | tbd | Luca Santini Moreno Di Marco | Victor Cazalis |
sPriority | Mechanisms and Quantification of Priority Effects | tbd | Benjamin Delory Tadashi Fukami | |
sDevTrait | Streamlining development efforts in tools for ecological trait analyses | 26.-30.10.2020 (fully virtual) | Alexander Keller Markus Ankenbrand | |
sUCCESS | Pantropical forest succession | 16.-20.12.2019 7.-11-06.2021 | Lourens Poorter Nadja Rueger Michiel van Breugel | |
sCom | Advancing inference for eDNA and other novel, high-throughput community data | postponed to 19.-23.4.2021 | Florian Hartig Douglas Yu | |
sCoRRE | Assessing functional consequences of community changes with global change using trait-based and phylogenetic approaches | 09.-13.12.2019 postponed to 8.-12.3.2021 | Meghan Avolio Kimberly Komatsu | |
sBIOMAPS | Exploring BIOgeographic and MAcroevolutionary Patterns in organismal Stoichiometric diversity | 25.-29.11.2019 08.-12.02.2021 fully virtual | Angelica Gonzalez Olivier Dézerald | |
sToration | Applying Coexistence Theory to Restoration Ecology and Adaptive Management | 21.-24.10.2019 28.6.-1.7.2021 18.-21.10.2021 | Lauren Shoemaker Lauren Hallett Akasha Faist | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | Gustavo Q Romero Diane S Srivastava | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
sTWIST | Theory and Workflows for Alien and Invasive Species Tracking | 20.-24.08.2018 03.-07.06.2019 02.-05.06.2020 | Melodie McGeoch Marten Winter | |
sEcoEvo | Biodiversity Dynamics: The Nexus Between Space & Time | 19.–23.03.2018 13.–17.08.2018 | Rosemary Gillespie Michael Hickerson | |
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 | |
sLandServ | Linking Landscape Structure to Ecosystem Services | 11.–14.12.2017 02.–06.07.2018 | Jonathan Rhodes Jean Paul Metzger | |
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 | |
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 | |
sUrBioCity | Deciphering Drivers of Urban Biodiversity across Multiple Scales | 09.–13.10.2017 09.–13.04.2018 | Christopher Swan | |
sMon | Synthesis and evaluation of monitoring data in Germany | 27.–28.11.2017 22.–24.01.2018 | Florian Jansen Aletta Bonn Helge Bruelheide | David Eichenberg |
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 | |
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 |
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 | |
sCAP | Testing the conservation value of phylogenetic diversity | 05.–08.12.2016 02.–05.05.2017 | Arne Mooers Caroline M. Tucker | |
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 | |
sAPROPOS | Analysis of PROjections of POpulationS | 23.–25.11.2016 06.–10.02.2017 12.–16.06.2017 | Roberto Salguero-Gomez | |
sPRED | Synthesizing Predictability Research of Ecological Dynamics | 07.–11.11.2016 23.–27.10.2017 | Frank Pennekamp Alison Iles | |
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 | |
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 |
sPLAT | Synthesis on Pollen Limitation And Terrestrial biodiversity | 25.–29.01.2016 | Tiffany Knight Tia-Lynn Ashman Janette Steets | |
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 | |
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 | |
sMarD | Global Changes in Marine Plankton Diversity and Productivity | 30.11.–04.12.2015 | Aleksandra Lewandowska Boris Worm | |
sFIND | Functional Information: its potential for quantifying biodiversity and its relation to ecosystem functioning | 07.–11.09.2015 | Keith Farnsworth Ivo Große | |
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 | |
sTEP | Synthesising Trait Evolution in Plants | 18.–21.05.2015 | William Pearse Jeannine Cavender-Bares | |
LU-BD-ES | Effects of land use on the trade-off between biodiversity and provisioning ecosystem services | 20.–24.04.2015 | Ralf Seppelt | |
sESMOD | Next Generation Models for Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity | 14.–17.04.2015 | Elena Bennett Gretchen Daily | |
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 | |
sEpiDiv | Towards understanding the causes and consequences of epigenetic diversity | 02.–06.03.2015 23.–25.09.2015 | Katrin Heer Lars Opgenoorth | |
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 | |
JSCM | International Joint Synthesis Centre Meeting | 27.–30.01.2015 | Marten Winter | |
sEcoToxDiv | Ecotoxicology for B-EF research: experimental design of aquatic multi-trophic experiments | 15.–18.12.2014 | Frederik De Laender Paul Van den Brink | |
sFunDivEUROPE | Synthesis workshop | 24.–26.11.2014 | Eric Allan Lars Gamfeld | |
sRareBioS | Importance of rare microbes for soil ecosystem services | 25.–28.11.2014 | Gera Hol Alexandre Jousset | |
sUMMITDiv | Europe’s alpine flora: past, present and future | 10.–20.11.2014 | Sonja Wipf | |
sWEEP | Synthetizing Worldwide Ecology, Evolution and Physiology | 21.–24.10.2014 | Miguel Ángel Olalla Tárraga Ignacio Morales Castilla | Joanne Bennett |
sChange | Quantifying biodiversity change through time | 10.–12.10.2014 22.–26.02.2016 | Nico Eisenhauer Forest Isbell Sarah Supp Maria Dornelas | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
sFOSSIL | Integrating Phylogenies, Fossils and Earth System Dynamics | 05.–08.05.2014 | Jan Schnitzler Andreas Mulch | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
sCoMuCra | Species communities harboring the outcome of plant diversification: museums and cradles | 06.–11.01.2014 | Andreas Prinzing | Benjamin Yguel |
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 | |
sTOICHFUN | Stoichiometric constraints of biodiversity – functioning relationships | 25.–29.10.2013 | Helmut Hillebrand | Aleksandra Lewandowska |
sPHY | Synthesizing phylogenetic measures for ecology and conservation | 19.–22.11.2013 20.–23.05.2014 | Marc Cadotte Dan Rosauer | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Physiodiv | Biodiversity meets Physiology – Physiology meets Biodiversity | 26.–27.09.2013 | Christian Wilhelm | |
TRY | Towards a sustainable archive and sharing-mechanism for plant trait data: Refining the TRY initiative | 03.–05.09.2013 | Jens Kattge | |
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 | |
sMGI | 3rd Mycorrhizal Genomics Initiative | 09.–10.07.2013 | François Buscot Sylvie Herrmann | |
sImpact | Impact of invasive alien species: prediction and quantification | 01.–04.07.2013 | Sabrina Kumschick | |
ECOTRON | Next generation biodiversity manipulation: Technical requirements for an ecotron platform | 06.–07.06.2013 | Stefan Meldau Nico Eisenhauer | |
Inaugural Workshop | Integrative Biodiversity Research - a young discipline under time pressure | 19.–21.04.2013 | Christian Wirth Marten Winter | |