Title: Causes and effects of plant invasions into mountain areas

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. Thus, 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.

10:00am–12:00am: Past and Present

An overview will be given presenting data and resources of common benefit, including already existing synergies. Researchers already involved in scientific projects at the Canopy Crane site will present their ongoing projects and related key findings. Additionally, researchers starting new projects in 2019 will present and discuss their project goals and experimental designs.

12:00am–1:00pm: Lunchbreak

Meet and greet at iDiv´s canteen

1:00pm–3:00pm: Future

As a group, we will define and discuss ideas for future projects, identify potential projects that could be realized together with the help of staff and resources the Canopy Crane consortium already offers. Furthermore, we will identify gaps in support, information and data provided by the Canopy Crane project and will identify potential solutions.

3:00pm–3:30pm: External appearance and ways forward

We will summarize the current situation and our strategic orientation with respect to the tap-root process. We will discuss how the consortium could increase its visibility.

3:30pm–4:00pm: Open topic session

Topics, important for you that haven’t been touched so far can be put on the table.

Contact: Ronny Richter, ronny.richter[at]idiv.de

More information at: www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/core_groups/molecular_interaction_ecology/journal_club.html

Talk: Does tree diversity affect hydraulic traits and thus patterns of drought-induced mortality?​

More information at: www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/core_groups/molecular_interaction_ecology/journal_club.html

Functional organization and size structure of soil food webs: a stable-isotope story

discussion on biodiversity change in the Anthropocene

Contact: diana.bowler@idiv.de

“Coordinated approaches to assess the effects of interacting global change drivers on forest composition and function”

Does time drive space? Building a mechanistic linkage between spatial and temporal turnover in metacommunities

More information at: www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/core_groups/molecular_interaction_ecology/journal_club.html

Effects of land use on soil invertebrates – from local to global

Human activities, particularly land use change and habitat degradation, are causing major declines in biodiversity worldwide, but studies mostly focus on above-ground taxa - the effects of land use change on soil invertebrates is less well known, despite their importance for soil ecosystem services. At a local scale the Earthworm Watch citizen science project shows that earthworm abundance differs significantly between garden habitats in the United Kingdom and the three ecotypes respond in different ways. I also combine global datasets to test whether soil physical properties influence the response of biodiversity to land-use change and if these differ for soil and above-ground biodiversity. My results indicate that soil invertebrates may not respond to human pressures in the same way as above-ground biodiversity.

Angélica L. González (Rutgers University)

"Food web structure and dynamics across time and space"

host: sDiv, PhyDiv, TiBS

! Thursday !

More information at: www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/core_groups/molecular_interaction_ecology/journal_club.html

Dear iDiv members, dear colleagues,

This year’s 7th General Members Assembly will take place on September 18th from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Jena. It will be combined with the inaugural lecture of Renske Onstein – the leader of the new junior research group “Evolution and Adaption”. The lecture and the GMA will be open to all interested scientists.

Please note that the elections of the directorate and the speakers group have been postponed.

After the GMA there will be time for networking and presentations of science by members in Jena.

More details will follow soon. If you have further questions please don´t hesitate to contact me (hanna.weise@idiv.de).

Kind regards on behalf of the speakers group,

Hanna Weise, Martina Herrmann

Wanderausstellung der UN-Dekade Biologische Vielfalt

28. August bis 5. Oktober 2018, Montag bis Freitag, 8 bis 18 Uhr

Weitere Informationen zur Ausstellung unter: www.undekade-biologischevielfalt.de/service/wanderausstellung/

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Travelling exhibition of the UN Decade on Biodiversity

28 August to 5 October 2018, Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm

Further information in German about the exhibition at: www.undekade-biologischevielfalt.de/service/wanderausstellung/

Doppelvortrag mit anschließender Eröffnung der Wanderausstellung. Weitere Informationen: https://www.idiv.de/ausstellung

Double lecture followed by opening of the exhibition. Further information (in German only): www.idiv.de/ausstellung

"The botanical diversity of Latin America: a threatened treasure of the green planet"

Talk Summary

The idea of Earth as "The Blue Planet" is quite popular—and important. After all, about two thirds of Earth’s surface is covered by oceans. However, terrestrial biologists consider Earth, as “The Green Planet”. Since the onset of plant colonization of the land, some 420 million years ago, our planet has undergone a process of “greening”, leading to the exuberant botanical diversity that currently decorates Earth. (Just look around these magnificent Leipzig Botanical Gardens!) Botanical diversity however, is not homogeneous around the globe. One of the regions that stands out is Latin America. And this is what this presentation is about: highlighting the diversity of ecosystems, species, life forms, endemic taxa, and domesticated plants present in this region. Yet, this emerald treasure is threatened by Anthropogenic activity, an aspect that I will briefly highlight as well. In closing, I will discuss why it is important for humans that this botanical treasure be preserved well into the future.

More information at: www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/core_groups/molecular_interaction_ecology/journal_club.html

Weitere Informationen / Further information:

www.idiv.de/lndw-hal

Biotic controls of ecosystem functioning in global drylands in a warmer and more arid world

Linking Landscape Structure to Ecosystem Services

www.idiv.de/sdiv/working_groups/wg_pool/slandserv.html

Weitere Informationen / Further information:

www.idiv.de/lndw-le

More information at: www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/core_groups/molecular_interaction_ecology/journal_club.html

Shifting distributions of plant defense genotypes along a latitudinal gradient under climate change

Impacts of climate change and land-use intensification on aboveground invertebrate communities

Explaining the latitudinal diversity gradient: synthesizing knowledge via data-driven mechanistic modellings

How do multiple drivers of global change shape the relationship between consumer diversity and litter decomposition?

Understanding the undesirable resilience in socio-ecological systems driving biodiversity loss

Impacts of land-use intensification and climate change on soil microbial communities

Weitere Informationen / Further information

garten-findet-stadt.de

BioClIVE: A new experiment to unravel the impact of Biodiversity and Climate Variability on the functioning of grasslands.

Jonathan Jeschke: Hierarchies of hypotheses and other new tools for ecological synthesis

Title: "Spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity loss due to nutrient addition in grasslands"

Host: Physiological Diversity

The AquaDiva Plattform: Going deep and study biotic interactions in the subsurface

Holger Kreft: Global diversity of island floras - richness, endemism, threa

*Talks at BBZ are public. Workshops for registered participants only.*

When? Friday, 27 April 2018, 09.00am-12.30pm

Where? BBZ Lecture hall 1.1 and iDiv Interim I

Program

09.00-09.10 Welcome Note BBZ

Rebecca Thier-Lange, Volker Hahn

09.10-10.00 Introductory Talks BBZ

Anett Richter, Henrique Pereira, Lutz Maicher, Josef Settele

10.15-11.45 Workshops (2 rounds, 45 min each) iDiv Interim I rooms

1. Citizen Science: „How to reach out to society?“ (Anett Richter, UFZ, iDiv)

2. Open Science: „How does open science affect my research practices? How can I profit?“ (Astrid Vieler, Leipzig University)

3. Researcher profiles: „How can I profit from research profile platforms and which ones are the best for me?“ (Lutz Maicher, FSU Jena, IMW Fraunhofer)

4. Outreach via media channels (Social media, online media, mass media): „How can I use various media channels to disseminate my research to academia and society?“ (Volker Hahn & Tabea Turrini, iDiv)

11.45-12.00 Plenary Session iDiv Interim I, room Red Queen

12.00-12.30 Lunch

More information at: www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/core_groups/molecular_interaction_ecology/journal_club.html

Title: TeaComposition- A global litter decomposition study

Global Change in our Gardens

Potatoes in Ireland, tomatoes in Italy, and cucumbers in America: How did these familiar, delicious plants colonize the world? Is this global plant movement consequence free? To answer these questions, this project integrates chemical ecology, plant-insect evolution, and microbial genomics to explore the unintentional consequences of global crop plant movement on co-evolved species interactions, and, ultimately agricultural sustainability

Jitendra Gaikwad of the BDU will come from Jena to inform us about the upcoming new iDiv portal and metadata.

Deciphering Drivers of Urban Biodiversity across Multiple Scales

www.idiv.de/sdiv/working_groups/wg_pool/surbiocity.html

More information at: www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/core_groups/molecular_interaction_ecology/journal_club.html

talk by sDiv working group sEcoEvo

The nexus of ecology and evolution in community assembly (title for overall theme):

Island Time And The Interplay Between Ecology & Evolution In Species Diversification (Rosemary Gillespie)

Bridging Ecological and Evolutionary Timescales by Jointly Modeling Abundances and Genetic Variation in Ecological Communities (Isaac Overcast)

Insights into drivers of diversity by merging empirical data and a massive eco-evolutionary synthesis simulation model (Andrew Rominger)

Dr Gunnar Keppel

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, University of Göttingen

www.uni-goettingen.de/de/568538.html

Title: Bridging the gap: Linking the Jena Experiment to real-world ecosystems

“Emerging infectious diseases in changing landscapes and the Global Virome Project”

Ayco Tack & Beyene Zewdie - "Coffee at the agro-ecological interface"

"Arabica coffee originated in the Ethiopian highlands, and provides a livelihood for millions of poor smallholder farmers in this region. While expansion and intensification of coffee production degrades the natural forests, and the release of disease-resistant varieties threatens the wild genetic diversity of coffee, shade coffee systems can also harbour high biodiversity. In this project, we explore this dual role of coffee, with the ultimate goal of improving farmer’s livelihood, preserving biodiversity and utilizing ecosystem services. In particular, we are interested how genetic and species diversity can aid in the natural and sustainable control of plant-feeding insects and pathogens on coffee."

Frederik De Laender: Integrating environmental change into biodiversity and ecosystem function research: implications and a way forward.

Environmental change can affect ecosystem function directly, or indirectly by altering biodiversity. Which of these effects is more important? I will present general theory and data of algae communities showing that direct effects on function can outweigh biodiversity-mediated effects on function. I will also present a strategy to mechanistically study environmental change effects on biodiversity and function, based on an integration of stressors into resource uptake theory.

Santiago Soliveres: Biodiversity-functioning relationships in the real world

Global change drivers are changing the biota of every ecosystem on Earth. These changes not only relate to changes in species richness, but also in species abundance and composition, and not only occur at local but also at regional and global scales. I will first summarize research on potential mechanisms to buffer biodiversity changes under ongoing global change, namely positive and intransitive plant-plant interactions. Experimental manipulations have allowed us to understand the mechanisms by which diversity changes may impair ecosystem functioning. However, we are now only starting to understand how important are these biotic changes in comparison with other drivers of ecosystem functioning such as climate, habitat type of land use. In the second part of this seminar, I will summarize results from studies addressing the consequences for the functioning of natural and semi-natural ecosystems of these biotic changes in multitrophic communities and different “dimensions” of plant diversity. In so doing, I will highlight some caveats of current approaches and suggest future directions for research in this exciting field.

More information at: www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/core_groups/molecular_interaction_ecology/journal_club.html

Title: Individual-based ecology and modelling in biodiversity research: Why, how, and whereto?

Volker Grimm, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Ecological Modelling

The structure and dynamics of ecological systems emerges from the behaviour of individual organisms and their interactions with each other and their abiotic environment. This does not necessarily imply that all ecological theory and application has to go all the way down to the individual, but it means that it cannot be excluded from the outset that individuals matter. I will summarize arguments and examples (e.g., vultures, tigers, honeybees, grasslands) for including the individual-based perspective into ecology and biodiversity research. I will demonstrate how this perspective can be implemented using individual/agent-based models and how this approach matured over the last decade. Finally, I will argue that ecological theories need to be cross-level by taking into account the mutual link between the individual’s and the system’s perspective.

Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in unmanipulated communities

Title: Long-term monitoring and short-term experiments: Strong together to understand the impact of global change in mountain grassland

"Resilience in social-ecological systems: deconstructing the positive and Dark side"

Speaker: Ekaterina Shelest

Title: Presentation of Bioinformatics Unit: Expertise, Projects, Interest

www.idiv.de/smonodominance

More information at: www.idiv.de/groups_and_people/core_groups/molecular_interaction_ecology/journal_club.html

Title: "Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in unmanipulated communities"

Talk by Jörg Müller (NPV-BW):

„Gaps in science and science transfer hamper evidence based conservation in Germany -  a forest perspective"

Title: "The value of biodiversity to ecosystem functioning in homes, on bodies, and in bodies"