Lourens Poorter, Wageningen University and Research, "The potential of secondary forests"

Caroline Farrior, University of Texas, "Species diversity and variation despite the strong filter of competition for light in tropical forest"

The annual Canopy Crane Workshop aims at strengthening the development of interdisciplinary research projects related to canopy research and improving the use of already existing infrastructure and data collections. It will bring together researchers from various scientific disciplines, who are already involved in ongoing research projects at the Leipzig Canopy Crane or are interested in participating with own research questions.

- 1:00pm–4:00pm: Past and present

- 4:30pm–5:30pm: Future

- 5:30pm–6:00pm: Open topic session

Meghan Avolio (Yale) and Kim Komatsu (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center)

“A data synthesis of plant community and ecosystem responses in global change experiments”

Diane Srivastava (University of British Columbia), Regis Cerehino (EcoLab Toulouse)

"The geography of traits: analyses of multi-trophic invertebrate communities within bromeliads"

Judith Sitters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

"The stoichiometric impact of mammalian herbivores on soils and plants"

"Using simulation to reconstruct ecosystem dynamics of the past and their legacies for the future"

Quantifying how global change impacts biodiversity and ecosystem services across scales

"Give chance a chance: from coexistence to coviability in biodiversity theory"

*English version below*

Der Rückgang von Insekten beschäftigt Wissenschaftler und Zivilgesellschaft gleichermaßen. Die Politik hat nun darauf reagiert und kürzlich ein „Aktionsprogramm Insektenschutz“ vorgestellt.  

In seinem Vortrag mit anschließender Diskussion 

„Das Insektenschutzprogramm – Ziele und Möglichkeiten“ 

am 4. November 2019                                                                                                                                            

18-20 Uhr

wird Josef Tumbrinck, Leiter der Unterabteilung Naturschutz im Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit (BMU) und ehemals langjähriger NRW-Landesvorsitzender des NABU das neue Insektenschutzprogramm vorstellen und außerdem über die Themen Insektensterben und Insektenmonitoring sprechen. 

*English version*

The decline of insects concerns scientists and civil society alike. Politicians have now responded and recently launched a national programme for the protection of insects ("Aktionsprogramm Insektenschutz").

In his lecture with subsequent discussion

"Das Insektenschutzprogramm - Ziele und Möglichkeiten"

 4th November 2019

6 - 8 pm

Josef Tumbrinck, Head of the Nature Conservation Division at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and former Chairman of NABU (Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union) Northrhine-Westfalia, will present the new insect protection programme and also talk about insect mortality and insect monitoring (in German).

"Mast Inference and Forecasting (MASTIF) for climate change: the birth rates that control local to continental forest responses and their consequences for pulsed-resource food webs"

Simon Stump "Reexamining the impact that specialist natural enemies have on plant coexistence." and Loralee Larios "Understanding invasion and invader impacts to guide restoration."

"Microbial regulation of ecosystem functions: evidence from micro- to global scales"

Pablo Cardenas: "Combining Omics and QTLs to understand Evolution and Diversity of the Plant Metabolome"

Investigating people-environment relationships through inter- and transdisciplinary research

Biotic interactions, community assembly, and eco-evolutionary dynamics as drivers of long-term BEF relationships

„Trait-based microbial ecology and evolution”

„ Theoretical approaches to eco-evolutionary dynamics”

“Economic inequality and the value of nature”

“Integration of a local fish market in Namibia with the global seafood trade: Implications for fish traders and sustainability”

Plant functional diversity and consequences for ecosystem multifunctionality

„Life in a giant water bath: Consequences for ecological dynamics in the ocean”

Interactions and feedbacks between above and below-ground ecosystems under climate change

„The potential of natural regeneration to restoring degraded lands”

Korinna Allhoff (University of Tübingen)

Douglas Chesters (Chinese Academy of Sciences/sDiv sabb):

„ Integrating a phylogenetic framework into biogeography and community ecology”

Xiaojuan Liu(Chinese Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Botany):

„Using functional traits to understand forest community assembly”

Microbial functioning in the rhizosphere hotspots

Mechanisms underlying the impacts of organisms on ecosystem functioning: insights from global drylands

"Opening a can of worms": a review of earthworm research in Brazil

"Community ecology: expansion and reintegration"

Biodiversity Change Taproot

Further information about the programme / Weitere Informationen zum Programm

garten-findet-stadt.de

Introducing One Earth and providing advice on scientific publishing (writing abstracts, cover letters etc.)

More information: www.idiv.de/fileadmin/content/Files_BiodiversityEconomics/Einladung_Antrittsvorlesung_Prof._Martin_Quaas.pdf

"Biogeography of soil microbes: from knowledge gathering to operational quality diagnosis"

Dr. Nicolas Chemidlin Prévost-Bouré (Higher National Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Food and Environment, AGROSUP, Dijon, France)

Dr. Battle Karimi (French National Institute for Agricultural Research, INRA Dijon, France)

Dr. Sébastien Terrat (French National Institute for Agricultural Research, INRA Dijon, UMR 1347, Agroecology, France)

Linking insect migration to plant metabolites

Climate Change, Range Shifts, and Traits - The Long View 

"Global forests and their dynamics"

The chemical ecology of poplar: from genes to the ecosystem

 "Color, taste, aroma: the evolutionary ecology of fruit traits"

"Integrating geodynamics and biodiversity using oceanic islands as model systems“

Anna Heintz-Buschart: "Microbial diversity and ecology in the context of human health"

Melissa Marselle: "Does biodiversity matter for mental health and well-being?"

Jan Schnitzler: "Tackling the antimicrobial resistance crisis: Phylogenetic and spatial distribution of anti-infective metabolites"

Experimental warming effects – or lack thereof – on pitfall trap samples of ants, Carabids, and spiders

"Revisiting island biogeography from a phylogenetic perspective"

Screening of the movie “Das Geheimnis der Bäume” (F 2014; in German)

Subsequent public discussion with iDiv directors Christian Wirth and François Buscot

Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig, Grimmaische Straße 6

www.leipzig.de/wirtschaft-und-wissenschaft/wissenschaft-fuer-alle/wissenschaftskino/

Biodiversity Ecosystem Functioning Effects: some knowledge gaps

Luis Cayuela: "Tree Diversity, Composition and Carbon Storage in Andean Tropical Montane Forests (sANDES)"

Sapna Sharma: On thin ice: are lakes feeling the heat?

Julian Olden: Freshwater fish on the move?

Claire Jacquet: How do disturbance frequency and intensity shape ecological pyramids?