iDiv Sommerschule 2024: Plant-pollinator interactions in restored grasslands

Das Deutsche Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätszentrum (iDiv) führt vom 23. zum 30. Mai 2024 seine 8. Sommerschule in Leipzig durch, diesmal zum Thema Plant-pollinator interactions in restored grasslands. Sie können sich ab sofort bewerben.

Weitere Informationen zur Bewerbung, zum Thema sowie zum Programm finden Sie auf der englischen Webseite.

Didactic aims and elements

Didactic aims

Students will learn pollinating field sampling methods for plants and pollinators, insect identification, and statistical analyses of biodiversity and network change. We will accomplish this by creating an authentic research experience in which students collect data on plant communities and plant-pollinator interactions in the field. Insects will be identified to family level for all flies and to genus and species levels for syrphid flies, bees and butterflies using iDiv’s laboratory facilities (microscopes). The diversity and composition of plants and pollinators and their network structure will be compared using four computer labs in the programming language R.

Our goal is for students to apply the knowledge they learned in the summer school back in their home region. This can involve something very simple, such as running a transect to monitor butterflies once you are back home using the standardized methodology you learned in the summer school.

Didactic elements

We will provide lectures on:

  • Introduction to Pollination Ecology
  • Introduction to Ecological Restoration
  • Methods for sampling plant-pollinator interactions
  • Introduction to the Saxony Anhalt region
  • Butterfly monitoring
  • Insect identification
  • Pollen sampling and identification

We will provide computer labs (in R):

  • Introduction to R for those using the programing language for the first time (optional)
  • Biodiversity of plants and pollinators using package iNext
  • Composition of plants and pollinators using package vegan
  • Network structure using packages Bipartite and Bootstrapnet

We will also provide other opportunities to networking with the broader scientific community at iDiv.

Expected performance
Students need to actively participate in field and lab activities.

 

Teachers

Tiffany Knight(MLU/UFZ/iDiv): expertise in pollination ecology, ecological synthesis

Demetra Rakosy(UFZ/iDiv): expertise in entomology, network analyses

Stefan Klotz(UFZ/iDiv) expertise in Botany, understanding land use change, experimental design

Annette Trefflich(State Institute of Agriculture and Horticulture, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany): expertise in Botany, agroecology

Reinart Feldmann (UFZ/iDiv): expertise in entomology, ecological monitoring

Elisabeth Kühn (UFZ): expertise in entomology, butterfly monitoring

Felicitas Wolf(MLU/UFZ/iDiv): expertise in plant-pollinator interactions in restored grasslands

Will Glenny (UFZ): expertise in plant-pollinator interactions in restored grasslands

 

Date and venue

The summer school takes place from 23 to 30 May 2024 at the iDiv building in Leipzig, Germany. The site has good transport connections to the city centre and to the accommodation.

The address is Puschstr. 4, 04103 Leipzig/Germany.

Costs

The total cost of the course is EUR 150 without accommodation and EUR 350 including accommodation. This covers the costs of teaching and materials, coffee breaks and lunch, two dinners and the cultural programme. The participants will be provided a single room in a two-room apartment in the city center (Apartment Central) from 22-31 May (9 nights).

In addition, 2-3 fellowships are available that will cover the registration fee as well as travel costs to Leipzig. These fellowships are for students from regions that are often underrepresented in science.

Application is closed

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