Biodiversity monitoring for post 2020

The GEO BON Open Science Conference and All Hands Meeting 2020 will be a milestone event that will bring together all those involved and interested in the development of Biodiversity Observation Networks and Essential Biodiversity Variables, as well as their potential to support global biodiversity monitoring and conservation post 2020.

The conference will be held fully virtually. More information can be found here:

conf2020.geobon.org/index.html

Host: sDiv

Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Rillig (FU Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Plant Ecology)

" Microplastic effects in terrestrial ecosystems"

Dr. Alexander S.T. Papadopulos,

Senior Lecturer in Molecular Ecology and Genomics

(Bangor University, UK)

"Impacts of Anthropogenic Environmental Change on Plant Evolution"

Host: Biodiversity Economics

Prof. Dan Phaneuf (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

“The Social Cost of Water Pollution: A Research Agenda and some Initial Results“

Host: sDiv

Roel van Klink, Post-Doctoral Researcher at sDiv

“A global insect apocalypse? – The science and the media”

Prof Dr Daan van Soest  (Tilburg University, Environmental and Behavioral Economics)

“Towards(?) an optimal design of forest conservation interventions in developing countries: Evidence from the field“

sDiv working group sCOM: “Advancing inference for eDNA and other novel, high-throughput community data”

Douglas Yu (University of East Anglia):

Introduction to sCom working group:

Otso Ovaskainen (Helsinki University)

Wilfried Thuillier (CNRS - University of Grenoble Alpes): "eDNA using graphical and structural equation models"

Host: Evolution and Adaptation

Simon Loader, (Natural History Museum, London, UK)

“The Importance of Museum collections for understanding Vertebrate Biodiversity”

Bio-sketch (speaker)

Dr Loader has recently taken up the position as Principal Curator in Charge of Vertebrates at the NHM (2017) - managing a collection of over 3.5 million specimens. Previously he was a lecturer in Biogeography/Zoology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and The University of Roehampton, London. Dr Loader's research encompasses Africa as his geographical area of research, and amphibians are his group of expertise. Using both Africa and vertebrates Dr Loader applies a range of approaches in systematics to investigate the current patterns and processes behind the maintenance and formation of biodiversity.

Abstract

Museum specimens are important documents of biodiversity but often inaccessible and difficult to get data from. In this talk, I will discuss recent case studies from the Vertebrate collections of the Natural History Museum in London which outline the recent advances which have allowed us to unlock the potential of museum collections. Museums are important repositories of data and unlocking their potential will be key to understanding biodiversity and its change.

Christian Wilhelm (University of Leipzig), hosted by Physiological Diversity: “New ideas for landscape management for integrated support of biodiversity, agriculture and chemical industry in response to climate change"

Valerio Pillar, (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), sabbatical guest at the MLU, Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden: “Searching for traits linked to hidden factors in community assembly”

Wilfried Thuiller, (CNRS-University of Grenoble Alpes, France), hosted by GEO BON and Biodiversity Conservation: “A story of scale in Ecology”

Lenore Fahrig, (Carlton University), sabbatical guest at sDiv: “Why do several small patches hold more species than few large patches?”  

Alexandra Weigelt (Universität Leipzig), Liesje Mommer (Wageningen University) & Daniel Laughlin (University of Wyoming):

“sROOT - developing a coherent understanding of root trait variation across the globe”

Topics:

Content iDiv DFG Proposal 3rd funding period (Jon Chase)

Status quo new iDiv building (Sabine Matthiä)

Faktencheck Biodiversity (Christian Wirth)

CBD 2020 (Andrea Perino)

KoLa Leipzig (Eva Köhler)

Sharon Y. Strauss(University of Carolina, Davis): „Coexistence in close relatives - beyond competition”