Host: ESS

Dr Maria Lee Kernecker, (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg, ZALF)

“Is it the field or the forest? Disentangling biodiversity-yield relationships in grasslands with insights from farmers”

Host: ESS

Dr Tatsuya Amano, ARC Future Fellow, (The University of Queensland, Australia)

“Why language matters in ecology and conservation”

Host: sDiv

sCom working group

Prof Florian Hartig, Theoretical Ecology, (University of Regensburg, Germany)

Prof Douglas Yu, School of Biological Sciences (University of East Anglia, UK) & State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, (Kunming Institute of Zoology, China)

"Advancing inference for eDNA and other novel, high-throughput community data"

Host: Tree Di

Prof. Dr Bernhard Schuldt, Department of botany, ecophysiology and vegetation ecology, University of Würzburg

"A trait-based approach for characterizing the drought tolerance of tree species"

Host: Evolutionary and Anthropocene Ecology

Daniel Haun, Director of Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

"Integrative Cognitive Diversity Research"

Host: Biodiversity Synthesis Research Group

Rebecca Spake, Postdoc in Applied Biogeography, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton.

Title & Abstract tbd

Host: Biodiversity Synthesis

Prof Damaris Zurell, Professor of Ecology & Macroecology (University of Potsdam), Guest scientist (Humbolt University

Berlin, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL)

"Conserving biodiversity under global change: some modelling perspectives"

Host: Biodiversity Economics Research Group

Christophe Diagne, Postdoctoral Researcher, (University of Paris Sud)

"Global economic costs of biological invasions"

Host: Evolution & Adapation Research Group

Prof Martina Carrete, Professor of Ecology, Universidad Pablo de Olavide

"Worldwide distribution of antagonistic-mutualistic relationships between parrots and palms"

Host: Evolutionary Ecology Research Group

Prof. Dr. Philipp Schlüter, Universität Hohenheim

"Pollination, genes and speciation: insights from deceptive orchids"

Host: BioCon

Jessica Junker, Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Conservation Group, iDiv

"What determines bushmeat consumption patterns in high zoonosis risk areas and how can this knowledge help design mitigation strategies to prevent future epidemics?"

Mimi Arandjelovic,  Scientific Researcher, (MPI EVA Leipzig), Co-Director Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee

"A Framework for Studying Intraspecific Variation - The Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee (PanAf)"

Host: ESS 

Imran Khaliq, Assistant Professor, Ghazi University (Pakistan), Sabbatical Researcher at Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

"Biodiversity in a warming world: patterns of physiological thermal tolerances and warming related community turnover"

Host: sDiv, Biodiversa Working Group "FunProd"

“The effect of anthropogenic activities on trophic interactions in terrestrial invertebrate communities”

"Index-Based Livestock Insurance: The why, how, and positive impacts of an imperfect product"

Host: Biodiversity Economics

"Ecosystem Services in a Spatially Structured and Connected World"

Host: Ecosystem Services

Aldo Compagnoni, Postdoc Research, SIE research group (iDiv)

“Estimating population responses to climate: seasonal effects, lagged effects, and the role of spatial replication”

 Corey Callaghan, Postdoc Researcher, BioCon research group (iDiv)

“Global biodiversity and citizen science”

Sebastian Wieneke (University of Leipzig)

"Remote sensing of photosynthetic activity by Sun-Induced Fluorescence: Perspectives and Challenges."

Teja Kattenborn  (University of Leipzig)

"Convolutional Neural Networks in Vegetation Remote Sensing - application examples across local and global scales."

"Weaving together plural values in freshwater management: a case study of the Upper Clutha catchment in Aotearoa New Zealand"

Host: ESS

Host: BioSyn (Emma Ladouceur)

Mlungele Nsikani, Postdoctoral Fellow (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

"One thing often leads to another: Secondary invasion after clearing invasive alien plants"

Host: MIE (Nicole Van Dam)

Professor Martin von Bergen, iDiv Member, (UFZ)

“Metabolomics for functional analysis of the (intestinal) microbiome”

Research Area: Biodiversity Change

Emma Ladouceur, Postdoctoral Researcher, (BioSyn, iDiv)

Title tbd

Marina Golivets, Postdoctoral Researcher (Macroecology Group, UFZ)

“The futures of functional trait distributions of native and alien plants across broad habitat types in Central Europe”

Host: MLU, Plant Ecology group, Prof Isabell Hensen

Sabrina Träger

„Exploring the ecology of Primula veris with the help of Citizen Scientists across Europe"

uni-leipzig.zoom.us/j/66532843866

Host: ESS

Toke Thomas Hoye, Senior Researcher, (University of Aarhus)

Title tbd

Host: MIE (Nicole van Dam) & Sasso Severin (idiv Member, UL)

Erik Hom, sDiv sabbatical guest, Associate Professor, (The University of Mississippi)

"Of Sloths and Franken-Lichens"

Prof Laura Meyerson, University of Rhode Islands (USA) – School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Host: Prof. Dr. Ingolf Kühn (UFZ, iDiv Member), Marten Winter (sDiv)

„Genome sizes & biological invasions“

Dr. Raúl Ochoa-Hueso, Fellow Researcher (University of Cadiz)

Host: Experimental Interaction Ecology

“Ecosystem coupling: Towards a unified framework to understand the functioning and recovery of ecosystems”

Erica von Essen,

Researcher at Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

Host: Ecosystem Services Research Group

“Citizen sensing in a Brave New Virtual World: How wildlife surveillance is used for science and entertainment“

Die globale Biodiversitätsagenda und die Europäische

Biodiversitätsstrategie - Chancen und Herausforderungen für

Mitteldeutschland