Host: tba

Diego Brizuela-Torres, Flexpool Doctoral Researcher at iDiv and the Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems at the UFZ, Leipzig (Germany)

Title: "DeForESG - Deforestation explained by social-ecological dynamics and governance shifts"

Saneesh Cherapurath Soman, Doctoral Researcher at the iDiv research group Species Interaction Ecology and the Department of Community Ecology at UFZ, Leipzig (Germany)

Title: "Restoring ecological complexity: Collaborative grass removal and fire exclusion in mesic savannas."

Host: Volker Hahn (M&C)

Dan Charles, communicator in residence at iDiv, contributing correspondent for Science, former agriculture correspondent for National Public Radio (USA)

Title: " Anatomy of a story about pesticides and pollinators - and what it tells us about science journalism today"

Host: Chloé Schmidt

Diogo B. Provete, Assistant Professor, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande (Brazil) and currently Sabbatical researcher, with a Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers, working with the iDiv research group Biodiversity Synthesis

Title: "The other story told by Urban Ecology in the Global South"