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sDiv calls
Calls for sDiv working groups, sDiv postdocs and iDiv sabbaticals will be announced one to two times a year. The synthesis projects foster integrative and synthetic research collaborations among international scientists, iDiv core and member groups by analysing and synthesising existing knowledge, data, theories and hypotheses to produce new insights. If you are interested in contributing to one of our working groups, feel free to contact the Head of sDiv, Dr Marten Winter.
Previous calls
Decisions for eights sDiv call
Following our 8th Call, sDiv has received 26 pre-proposals for individual Postdoc positions and 45 pre-proposals for working group. 11 applicants for individual PostDoc positions and 26 for working groups have received a positive evaluation of their pre-proposal and have been invited to hand in a full proposal.
Despite the very challenging work situation during the last months, sDiv received many proposals of very high scientific quality. After intense discussions of the internal and external reviews, the sDiv Evaluation Board decided to support 5 working groups including 2 working group postdocs (plus partial funding for 2 more groups), 3 individual postdoc positions and 3 sabbatical fellowships. Congratulations to our new sDiv working groups, future sDiv postdocs and guests. Please see the list below (we present only 100% verified projects at this point).
Funded working groups projects*
sPriority –Mechanisms and Quantification of Priority Effects
main PIs:
Benjamin Delory, Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
Tadashi Fukami,Stanford University, California, USA
sRedList – Accelerating IUCN Red List assessments for rapid and effective biodiversity monitoring
main PIs:
Luca Santini, National Research Council (Italy)
Moreno Di Marco, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
sTradES – Ecosystem services, biodiversity and anthropogenic capital embedded in internationally traded goods
main PIs:
C.J.E. (Nynke) Schulp, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Thomas Kastner, Senckenberg Institute, Frankfurt
sTreTra – Quantifying temporal change in traits across taxa and the globe
main PIs:
Franziska Schrodt, University of Nottingham
Maria Dornelas, University of St Andrews
sTraits – Integrating in-situ, upscaled and air- and spaceborne observations of plant traits
main PIs:
Philip A. Townsend, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ryan Pavlick, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
partial funding
sMile – synthesising plant Metabolomics into biodiversity, Life history & Ecology
main PIs:
Tom Walker, ETH Zürich
Franziska Schrodt, University of Nottingham
partial funding
sPrint - Working out the mechanics of predator-prey interactions to predict the present and future of biodiversity in food webs
main PI:
Mehdi Cherif, Umeå University
* Due to budgetary and other uncertainties caused by Corona, we can only announce the potential start of the working group projects in fall, but hope to welcome the new groups soon.
Funded individual postdocs projects
Juan D. Carvajal-Quintero
Assessing the effects of global environmental change on species interaction networks
Chris Barratt
Life on the edge: A new bioinformatic toolbox to conserve wildlife populations under threat from global change
Adriana Alzate Vallejo
Untangling the macro-ecological and evolutionary drivers of species range sizes and diversification rates
Funded sabbatical projects
Cynthia Chang
Placing ecological succession in applied global change and restoration context
Host: Stan Harpole
Erik Hom
Of Sloths and Franken-Lichens: Elucidating the Biodiversity, Chemical Ecology, and Physiology of Algal Polycultures
Host: Nicole van Dam
Michael Kaspari
Exploring the abiotic theatre and the ecological play: how biogeochemistry temperature, and precipitation shape terrestrial food webs
Hosts: Ulrich Brose, Stan Harpole, Nico Eisenhauer
Decisions for Joint Call CESAB - sDiv SYNERGY: Coexistence and stability high-diversity communities
Decisions on joint CESAB and sDiv Call
CESAB and sDiv are the synthesis centers of the French FRB (Foundation for Research on Biodiversity) and German iDiv (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research). These two centers offer to host groups of researchers to work on a better use of existing data, information and knowledge to foster theoretical, and synthetic thinking in biodiversity research.
In the joint call called “synergy” two theory driven groups of 5-7 researchers (4 meetings per group) were funded, that will share their meetings between the two centers.
The main topic is “Coexistence and stability in high-diversity communities”.
Funded working groups:
UNICOP - Unification of modern Coexistence theory and Price equation
PIs:
DUTHIE, A. Bradley, University of Stirling
LION, Sébastien, Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive (CEFE) - Montpellier
INTRACO - Unravelling the role of intraspecific variability in tree specied coexsistence in tropical forest
PIs:
VIEILLEDENT Ghislain, UMR AMAP – CIRAD Montpellier
MARECHAUX Isabelle,UMR AMAP – CIRAD Montpellier
Decisions for seventh sDiv call
Following our seventh sDiv call, we received many proposals of very high scientific quality. After discussion of the internal and external reviews, the sDiv Board decided to fund 6 working groups, 1 individual postdoc position and 3 sabbatical positions as followed:
Funded working groups projects
sBIOMAPS – Exploring BIOgeographic and MAcroevolutionary Patterns in organismal Stoichiometric diversity
main PIs: Angelica Gonzalez, Olivier Dézerald
sCom – Advancing inference for eDNA and other novel, high-throughput community data
main PIs: Florian Hartig, Douglas Yu
sCoRRE – Assessing functional consequences of community changes with global change using trait-based and phylogenetic approaches
main PIs: Meghan Avolio, Kimberly La Pierre
sDevTrait – streamlining development efforts in tools for ecological trait analyses
main PIs: Alexander Keller, Markus Ankenbrand
sToration – Applying Coexistence Theory to Restoration Ecology and Adaptive Management
main PIs: Lauren Shoemaker, Lauren Hallett and Akasha Faist
sUCCESS – Pantropical forest succession
main PIs: Lourens Poorter, Nadja Rüger
Funded individual postdocs projects
Roberto Rozzi
The demise of dwarfs and giants: ecological naiveté and extinction risk in insular vertebrates
Funded sabbaticals projects
George Perry (School of Environment, University of Auckland)
Reconstructing movement and emergent ecological functions for extinct animals
Lenore Fahrig (Carleton University)
Dissecting SLOSS: Why are there more species in several small than few large patches?
Malin Pinsky (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
Community response to changing temperatures across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial realms
Decisions for sixth sDiv call
Following our sixth sDiv call, we received many proposals of very high scientific quality. After discussion of the internal and external reviews, the sDiv Board decided to fund 7 working groups including 1 postdoc, 2 individual postdoc positions and 9 sabbatical positions as followed:
Funded working groups projects
sANDES – Tree Diversity, Composition and Carbon Storage in Andean Tropical Montane Forests
main PIs: Luis Cayuela, Manuel J. Macía
sCaleWebs – Unifying environmental and spatial determinants of food web structure across spatial scales
main PIs: Gustavo Q Romero, Diane S Srivastava
sREplot – Upscaling of individual species dynamics to community trends in biodiversity and composition using vegetation change data sets
main PIs: Lander Baeten; Markus Bernhardt-Römermann; Ute Jandt
sROOT – Root Trait functionality in a Whole-Plant Context
main PIs: Liesje Mommer; Alexandra Weigelt
sTraitChange – How do trait responses to climate change translate into demographic rates and population dynamics?
main PIs: Viktoriia Radchuk, Marcel E. Visser
sTreelines – Spatial pattern emergence from ecological processes at alpine treelines: model-supported hypothesis tests against globally-distributed field data
main PIs: Maaike Bader, Bradley Case
sTWIST – Theory and Workflows for Alien and Invasive Species Tracking
main PIs: Melodie McGeoch, Marten Winter
sUrBio2050 – Assessing globally important areas for biodiversity preservation and human well-being
main PIs: Thomas Elmqvist, Henrique Pereira
associated postdoc: TBA
sYNGEO – The geography of synchrony in dendritic networks: understanding the causes, dynamics, and consequences across multiple scales
main PIs: Julian D Olden, Lise Comte
Funded individual postdocs projects
Stephanie Jurburg
Microbial community assembly: establishing general ecological principles responsible for turnover in microbial communities
Alexander Zizka
Reaching for the sky: Unravelling global patterns and processes to explain convergent evolution of woodiness in angiosperms
Funded sabbaticals projects
Priyanga Amarasekare (University of California Los Angeles)
A framework for biodiversity maintenance: scaling up from modules to communities
Stephanie Bohlman (University of Florida)
Linking biodiversity and demography through remote sensing of trait tradeoffs
Douglas Chesters (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Phylogenetic integration of insect community data
Rodolfo Dirzo (Stanford University)
Research on plant-herbivore interactions under climate change and collaborations on biodiversity science
Christopher Klausmeier (Michigan State University)
Synthesizing Trait-Based Ecological Theory
Jeremy Lichstein (University of Florida)
Plant functional diversity and forest ecosystem stability: insights from dynamic vegetation models
Elena Litchman (Michigan State University)
Trait-based community patterns in microbes
Fernando T. Maestre (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Climate change impacts on dryland soil biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions from local to global scales
Pati Vitt (Chicago Botanic Garden)
Phylogenetic Endemism, Functional Trait Diversity and Conservation Status in the Orchidaceae: a Global Synthesis
Decisions for fifth sDiv call
Following our fifth sDiv call, we received many proposals of very high scientific quality. After discussion of the internal and external reviews, the sDiv Board decided to fund 6 working groups, 2 individual postdoc positions and 3 sabbatical positions.
Funded working groups
sEcoEvo - Biodiversity Dynamics – The Nexus Between Space & Time
main PIs: Rosemary Gillespie; Michael Hickerson
sELDiG - Explaining the latitudinal diversity gradient: synthesizing knowledge via data-driven mechanistic modelling
main PIs: Allen Hurlbert; Catherine Graham
sLandServ - Linking Landscape Structure to Ecosystem Services
main PI’s: Jonathan Rhodes; Jean Paul Metzger
sOcioLock-in - Understanding the undesirable resilience in socio-ecological systems driving biodiversity loss
main PIs: Tom Oliver; Emily Boyd
sTURN - Does time drive space? Building a mechanistic linkage between spatial and temporal turnover in metacommunities
main PIs: Zsófia Horváth; Robert Ptacnik
sUrBioCity - Deciphering Drivers of Urban Biodiversity across Multiple Scales
main PI: Christopher Swan
Funded individual postdocs
Léa Beaumelle
How do multiple environmental change drivers shape biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships?
Roel van Klink
Effects of extreme weather events on long term ecosystem dynamics (X-WELT)
Funded sabbatical projects
Robert R. Dunn
The Global Biogeography of Microbes and Mutualists Associated with Humans
Benjamin Gilbert
Project 1 – Neutrality, Demographic stochasticity and ecological drift
Project 2 – Local interactions, Regional constraints, and multiple stable states
Angélica L. González
Understanding the interactive effects of temperature and nutrients on ecological processes: a meta-analysis
Decisions for sDiv call for catalyst postdocs
Following our sDiv call for catalyst postdocs, we received many proposals of very high scientific quality. After discussion of the internal reviews, the sDiv Board decided to fund three postdoc positions.
Funded catalyst postdocs
Adam Thomas Clark (Postdoc)
Stanley Harpole (PI professor), Helmut Hillebrand (PI member)
sMultiMod: Synthesis of multiple predictive models of community composition and coexistence
Guy Pe'er (Postdoc)
Aletta Bonn (PI professor), Bernd Hansjürgens (PI member), Irene Ring (Co-PI member)
Towards the next reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: evaluating the new greening measures from Ecological and Socio-economic perspectives
Callum Lawson (Postdoc)
Ulrich Brose (PI professor), Katrin Böhning-Gaese (PI member)
Double jeopardy: which populations will become both smaller and less stable under climate change?
Decisions for fourth sDiv call
Following our fourth sDiv call, we received many proposals of very high scientific quality. After discussion of the internal and external reviews, the sDiv Board decided to fund ten working groups, two individual postdoc positions and one sabbatical position.
Funded working groups
sECURE - Separating Environmental Changes and their effects on community traits in European butterflies
main PI's: Oliver Schweiger, Josef Settele
sPRED - Synthesizing Predictability Research of Ecological Dynamics
main PI's: Frank Pennekamp, Alison Iles
sToichNutNet II - Linking ecological stoichiometry with environment-diversity-productivity relationships in grasslands
main PI's: Elizabeth Borer, Anne Ebeling
sFDvent - A functional trait perspective on the global biodiversity of hydrothermal vent communities
main PI's: Amanda Bates, Abbie Chapman
sMonodominance - Monodominance workshop
main PI's: Andreas Huth, Kelvin Peh
sAPROPOS - Analysis of PROjections of POpulationS
main PI: Roberto Salguero-Gomez
sTeleBES - Telecoupled use of biodiversity and ecosystem services: synthesis of concepts, methods and evidence
main PI's: Matthias Schröter, Thomas Koellner
sCAP - Testing the conservation value of phylogenetic diversity
main PI's: Arne Mooers, Caroline M. Tucker
sWORM - A global soil biodiversity database and its application to data synthesis and theory development
main PI's: Erin Cameron, Nico Eisenhauer
sPlot - Plant trait-environment relationships, biodiversity and invasion patterns across the world's biomes
main PI's: Jürgen Dengler, Oliver Purschke
Funded individual postdocs
Duarte S. Viana
Spatial scaling in the assembly and diversity of biological communities
Katharina Gerstner
From plots to landscapes – Towards a mechanistic understanding of land-use effects on biodiversity across spatial scales
Funded sabbatical project
David Currie
A continental theory of biogeography: predicting geographic variation in species richness and range size
Decisions for third sDiv call
Following our third sDiv call, we received many proposals of very high scientific quality. After discussion of the internal reviews, the sDiv Committee decided to fund nine international workshops and two individual Postdoc projects:
Workshop projects:
"Quantifying biodiversity change through time (sChange)”
main applicants: Sarah R. Supp (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Maria Dornelas (University of St. Andrews)
"Towards understanding the causes and consequences of epigenetic diversity (sEpiDiv)”
main applicants: Katrin Heer and Lars Opgenoorth (both University of Marburg
"Scaling shrub expansion from site to biome Manuscript finalization working group" (sTUNDRA II)"
main applicants: Isla H. Myers-Smith (University of Edinburgh) and Anne Bjorkman (iDiv)
"Global Changes in Marine Plankton Diversity and Productivity (sMarD)"
main applicants: Aleksandra M. Lewandowska (University of Oldenburg) and Boris Worm (Dalhousie University)
"Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems in Open Systems (sCAFE)"
main applicants: S.K. Morgan Ernest (Utah State University) and Mathew Leibold (University of Texas at Austin)
"Synthesis on Pollen Limitation and Terrestrial biodiversity (sPlat)"
main applicants: Tiffany Knight (Washington University, iDiv), Tia-Lynn Ashman (University of Pittsburgh) and Janette Steets (Oklahoma State University)
"Linking ecological stoichiometry with environment‐diversity‐productivity relationships in grasslands (sToichNutNet)"
main applicants: Elizabeth Borer (University of Minnesota) and Anne Ebeling (University of Jena)
"Expanding Neo-Chessonian coexistence theory towards a stochastic theory for species rich communities (sNiche)"
main applicants: Thorsten Wiegand (UFZ) and Stan W. Harpole (iDiv)
"Functional Information: its potential for quantifying biodiversity and its relation to ecosystem functioning. Function, Information and Biodiversity (sFIND)"
main applicants: Keith Farnsworth (Queen’s University Belfast) and Ivo Große (University of Halle/ Saale)
Individual postdoc projects:
"Drivers of plant diversity across spatiotemporal scales: integrating ecological, evolutionary and environmental processes”
Postdoc: Juliano Sarmento Cabral (University of Göttingen)
"Assessing extinction: Crossover of geometrical, macroecological and Bayesian perspectives”
Postdoc: Petr Keil (Charles University in Prague)
Decisions for second sDiv call
Following our second sDiv call, we received many proposals of very high scientific quality. After discussion of the internal reviews, the sDiv Committee decided to fund five international workshops:
"Synthesising Trait Evolution in Plants (sTEP)"
main applicants: William D. Pearse and Jeannine Cavender-Bares (both University of Minnesota)
"Next Generation Models for Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity (sESMOD)"
main applicants: Elena Bennett (Mc Gill University); Gretchen Daily (Stanford University)
"Ecotoxicology for B-EF research: experimental design of aquatic multi-trophic experiments (sEcoToxDiv)"
main applicants: Frederik De Laender (University of Namur); Paul Van den Brink (Wageningen University)
"Can ecological network information improve the efficacy of biodiversity conservation for ecosystem services in the face of unavoidable uncertainty? (sErvices)"
main applicants: Laura E. Dee and Steven D. Gaines (both University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Unifying marine and terrestrial biodiversity at the interplay of macroecology, macrophysiology and macroevolution (sWEEP)"
main applicants: Miguel Ángel Olalla Tárraga (Rey Juan Carlos University); Ignacio Morales Castilla (Universidade de Evora)
Decisions for first sDiv call
Within our first sDiv call for workshops, various projects are funded.
Funded workshops:
sPlot - Plant trait-environment relationships across the world's biomes ("Trait-vegetation")
main applicants: Helge Bruelheide, Oliver Purschke
associated postdoc: Jürgen Dengler
sImpact - Impact of invasive alien species: prediction and quantification
main applicant: Sabrina Kumschick
TRANs-BEE - Synthesising transcriptome data to explore interspecies bee-pathogen molecular interactions that may underpin pollinator decline “trans-bee”
main applicants: Christina M. Grozinger, Robert J. Paxton
associated postdoc: Vincent Doublet
sTOICHFUN Stoichiometric constraints of biodiversity – functioning relationships StoichFun
main applicant: Helmut Hillebrand
associated postdoc: Aleksandra Lewandowska
rangeShifter - Synthesising population, community, genetic and evolutionary dynamics in a simulation platform: a tool for theory and application
main applicant: Justin Travis
associated postdoc: Alexander Singer
ECOTRON - Next generation biodiversity manipulation: Technical requirements for an ecotron platform
main apllicants: Stefan Meldau, Nico Eisenhauer
sTability - Plant diversity effects on ecosystem resistance to and recovery from perturbations
main applicants: Nico Eisenhauer, Forest Isbell
associated postdoc: Dylan Craven
sOILDIV - A framework to improve our understanding of the distribution of global soil biodiversity: establishing the first quantitative synthesis
main applicant: Diana H. Wall
associated postdoc: Kelly S. Ramirez
sREGPOOL - Biodiversity across spatial scales - linking macroecological models to local-scale biodiversity patterns by explicit delineation of the regional species pool Biodiversity and spatial scale - the regional species pool link
main applicants: Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Jens-Christian Svenning
sFOSSIL - Integrating Phylogenies, Fossils and Earth System Dynamics
main applicants: Jan Schnitzler, Andreas Mulch
TRY - Towards a sustainable archive and sharing-mechanism for plant trait data: Refining the TRY initiative TRY 3.0
main applicant: Jens Kattge
sTUNDRA - Tundra ecosystem change: Scaling shrub expansion from site to biome
main applicants: Isla H. Myers-Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf
associated postdoc: Anne Bjorkman
sCoMuCra - Species communities harboring the outcome of plant diversification: museums and cradles (CoMuCra)
main applicant: Andreas Prinzing
associated postdoc: Benjamin Yguel
sTREEDIV - Using Tree Diversity as an Insurance for the Stable Functioning of Forest Ecosystems
main applicants: Andy Hector, Bart Muys
associated postdoc: Simon Bilodeau-Gauthier
Physiodiv - Biodiversity meets Physiology – Physiology meets Biodiversity
main applicant: Christian Wilhelm
sPHY - Synthesizing phylogenetic measures for ecology and conservation
main applicants: Marc W Cadotte, Dan F Rosauer
sMGI - 3rd Mycorrhizal Genomics Initiative
main applicants: François Buscot, Sylvie Herrmann
Funded individual postdocs:
How does biodiversity affect ecosystem functioning and community stability:a meta-analysis of ecotoxicological stress experiments on freshwater communities
Viktoriia Radchuk
Niche, neutrality and the maintenance of biotic diversity in a changing world
Stefano Larsen
