sDiv Working Groups

Project Overview Table

Project types

  • WG – regular working group
  • ECR – early-career researcher working group
  • SF – synflex project
  • Affil. – sDiv affiliated project (synthesis project lead and funded by iDiv members)
  • Collab. – project collaboration with other institutions
Project Type Acronym Title Date PI Postdoc
CollabINTRACOUnravelling the role of intraspecific variability in tree species coexistence in tropical forest16.05. – 20.05.2022
25.09. – 29.09.2023
Ghislain Vieilledent
Isabelle Marechaux
Collab.UNICOPUnification of modern Coexistence theory and Price equation05.09. – 09.09.2022
15.01. – 19.01.2024
A. Bradley Duthie
Sébastien Lion
Collab.FunProdRelationships between functional diversity and food production and quality under ecological intensification04.05. – 06.05.2021
28.03. – 01.04.2022
29.11. – 01.12.2022
Klaus Birkhof
JISCsEcoCarbonMarketsIntegrating ecosystems in carbon markets29.09. – 02.10.2026Martin Quaas
JISCsModelProBioModelling the way forward for protecting biodiversity during climate change09.03. – 13.03.2026Greta Bocedi
Damaris Zurell
SF sRealBioFun Using long-term resurvey data and biodiversity experiments to predict ecosystem consequences of real-world biodiversity change07.04. – 10.04.2025
27.04. – 30.04.2026
Yuxin Chen
Donald Waller
SF sMacrobehaviour Disentangling Drivers of Geographic Variation in Vertebrate Behaviour03.03. – 07.03.2025
02.03. – 05.03.2026
Sally Keith
Katharine Marske
SF sMacroS Towards a synthesis in soil fauna macroecology19.05. – 22.05.2025
26.04. – 29.04.2026
Anton Potapov
Nico Eisenhauer
SF sRED The Range Edge Dynamics (RED) Working Group05.05. – 09.05.2025
18.05. – 22.05.2026
Jean-Philippe Lessard
Katie Marshall
SF sDETERMINE Direct and Indirect Effects of Mining on Global Ecosystems and Biodiversity05.10. – 08.10.2026Victor Maus
Arildo Dias
SF sTREND Synthesis on tree Traits REsponse to Neighboring Diversity07.07. – 11.07.2025
30.03. – 02.04.2026
Hervé Jactel
Simone Mereu
SF sEXCRETE Examining Consumer Resource Exchange in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems 08.12. – 12.12.2025
05.10. – 09.10.2026
Amanda Subalusky Elizabeth le Roux Angélica González
SF sCREATE Participatory decision-making for conservation in human-wildlife conflict contexts: synthesising expertise from research and practice 03.03. – 06.03.2025
29.05. – 03.06.2026
Emily Massingham Hugh Possingham
ECR sNext The future of ecological networks under extreme climate change23.06. – 27.06.2025
29.05. – 03.06.2026
Nuria Galiana
Juan David González-Trujillo
SF sIBTEDS sIBTEDS – Illuminating Blindspots Through Equitable Data reuse practices in the global Southworkshops & data training in Latin America
scientific
staff support
Stephanie Jurburg
Silvia Garaycochea

Eva Figuerola
Clara María Arboleda Baena
SF sBombus Leveraging artificial intelligence for global bumble bee monitoring and conservation03.-07.06.2024
16.-20.06.2025
Brian Spiesman
Christina Grozinger
Tiffany Knight
 
SF sSCAT Fit-for-purpose models and frameworks for understanding and managing diverse social-ecological area-based conservation systems 22.-25.04.2024
07.-10.10.2024
27.-30.10.2025
Alta De Vos
Graeme Cumming
 
SF sARDINE spAtial tRenDs IN fish Ethodiversity22.-26.04.2024
16.-20.09.2024
25.-28.11.2025
Christopher Monk  
SF sTime The dynamics of community turnover across space and time08.04. – 12.04.2024
10.11. – 13.11.2025
02.11. – 06.11.2026
Pincelli Hull
Erin Saupe
Marina Rillo
 
ECR sFragment Disentangling effects of fragmentation and habitat loss on functional diversity10.06. – 14.06.2024
08.09. – 12.09.2025
01.06. – 05.06.2026
Andres Felipe Suarez Castro  
ECR sConsume How does biodiversity drive disease and herbivory in a changing world?22.-26.01.2024
17.-22.03.2025
Fletcher Halliday
Suz Everingham
Mayank Kohli
 
ECR sPectra The major dimensions of plant spectral variation27.-31.05.2024
12.-16.05.2025
Shan Kothari
Teja Kattenborn
 
ECR sFutures Integrating functional and phylogenetic underpinnings into restoration science10.06. – 14.06.2024
07.07. – 1.07.2025
06.07. – 10.07.2026
Magda Garbowski
Emma Ladouceur
 
ECR sMoste Motifs supporting STability of Ecosystem services02.-05.05.2023
03.-07.06.2024
20.-24.10.2025
Kate Wootton

Anshuman Swain
 
SF sELOdiv sELOdiv: Synthesising Ecosystem and Land cover Observations and biodiversity change after abandonment and depopulation tba Gergana Daskalova
Sylvia Dyulgerova
 
SF sCaleGrassDiv Do the mechanisms of land-use effects on grassland plant diversity depend on spatial scales and environmental contexts?30.01.-03.02.2023
06.-10.11.2023
27.-31.05.2024
Anna Kuzemko
Oksana Buzhdygan
 
SF sUnderfoot Functional diversity of belowground plant strategies in a rapidly changing world 09.-13.01.2023
13.-17.11.2023
Joana Bergmann
Alessandra Fidelis
Karl Andraczek
SF sGUBIK Synthesizing Global Urban Biological Invasion Knowledge (sGUBIK): Patterns, Mechanisms, and Applications 25.-29.09.2023
14.-18.10.2024
Luke Potgieter

Daijiang Li
 
SF sReStoReS Restoration Synthesis to Reimagine Successno meeting,
only scientific
staff support
Emma Ladouceur
Jonathan Chase
 
SF sIntESE Integrating ecosystem services into economic models 05.-09.12.2022
04.-08.03.2024
Alexandra Marques
Aafke Schipper
 
SF sOilFauna sOilFauna: How human activities impact soil macrofauna communities and how it relates to primary productivity? A global synthesis. 02.-06.05.2022
21.-24.05.2024
Jerome Mathieu
Nico Eisenhauer
 
SF sILK Synthesizing Indigenous and Local Knowledge worldviews to develop frameworks for effective operationalization of relational values in environmental governance 25.-29.07.2022
 
Austin Himes
Barbara Muraca
 
SF sINTERVAL INTERaction Variation along ALtitudinal gradients 05.-09.12.2022 Tiffany Knight  
ECR sPSF Soil microbial controls over plant coexistence: synthesizing data and theory to unravel context dependence of plant-soil feedbacks under global change 25.-28.10.2021
(fully virtual)
04.-07.10.2022
26.-30.06.2023
Gaurav Kandlikar
Meghna Krishnadas
 
ECR sEnigmas Seeing the forest instead of the trees: identifying the common mechanisms behind enigmas of biodiversity 22.-25.11.2021
19.-22.07.2022
06.-10.11.2023
Isaac Overcast
Ana C. Afonso Silva
 
ECR sMars Synthesis of movement across scales: towards a process-based prediction of biodiversity patterns 16.-20.05.2022
13.-17.05.2023
13.-17.05.2024
Remo Ryser

Myriam Hirt
 
WG sMiLE Synthesising plant Metabolomics into biodiversity, Life history & Ecology 09.-13.11.2020
(fully virtual)
25.-29.10.2021
(hybrid)
04-08-07.2022 23.-27.10.2023
Tom Walker
Franziska Schrodt
 
WG sPRINT Working out the mechanics of predator-prey interactions to predict the present and future of biodiversity in food webs 12.-16.10.2020
(fully virtual)
02.-05.11.2021
(hybrid)
Mehdi Cherif  
WG sTRAITS Integrating  in-situ, upscaled and air- and spaceborne observations of plant traits24.-29.10.2021
(hybrid)
07.-10.06.2022
19.-23.06.2023
Philip A. Townsend
Ryan Pavlick
Benjamin Dechant
WG sTeTra Quantifying temporal change in traits across taxa and the globe06.-10.12.2021
30.05.-03.06.2022
08.-12.05.2023
15.-19.04.2024
Franziska Schrodt
Maria Dornelas
 
WG sTradES Ecosystem services, biodiversity and anthropogenic capital embedded in internationally traded goods 12.-16.09.2022
04.-08.09.2023
C.J.E. (Nynke) Schulp
Thomas Kastner
 
WG sRedList Accelerating IUCN Red List assessments for rapid and effective biodiversity monitoring 22.-25.03.2021
(fully virtual)
14.-16.03.2022
14.-17.03.2023
Luca Santini
Moreno Di Marco
Victor Cazalis
WG sPriority Mechanisms and Quantification of Priority Effects 27.09.-01.10.2021
26.-30.09.2022
09.-13.10.2023
Benjamin Delory
Tadashi Fukami
 
WG sDevTrait Streamlining development efforts in tools for ecological trait analyses 26.-30.10.2020
(fully virtual)
31.08.-03.09.2021
(hybrid)
08.-11.08.2022
Alexander Keller
Markus Ankenbrand
 
WG sUCCESS Pantropical forest succession 16.-20.12.2019
29.11.-03.12.2021
21.-25.11.2022
Lourens Poorter
Nadja Rueger
Michiel van Breugel
 
WG sCom Advancing inference for eDNA and other novel, high-throughput community data 11.-15.10.2021
09.-13.05.2022
Florian Hartig
Douglas Yu
 
WG sCoRRE Assessing functional consequences of community changes with global change using trait-based and phylogenetic approaches 09.-13.12.2019
13.-17.12.2021
12.-16.12.2022
Meghan Avolio
Kimberly Komatsu
 
WG sBIOMAPS Exploring BIOgeographic and MAcroevolutionary Patterns in organismal Stoichiometric diversity 25.-29.11.2019
08.-12.02.2021
(fully virtual)
08.-12.11.2021
(hybrid)
28.11.-2.12.2022
Angelica Gonzalez
Olivier Dézerald
 
WG sToration Applying Coexistence Theory to Restoration Ecology and Adaptive Management 21.-24.10.2019
13.-17.06.2022
20.-23.06.2023
Lauren Shoemaker
Lauren Hallett
Akasha Faist
 
WG sANDES Tree Diversity, Composition and Carbon Storage in Andean Tropical Montane Forests 22.-25.01.2019
21.-24.01.2020
Luis Cayuela

Manuel J. Macía  
 
WG sYNGEO The geography of synchrony in dendritic networks: understanding the causes, dynamics, and consequences across multiple scales 14.-18.01.2019
29.07.-02.08.2019
Julian D Olden
Lise Comte
 
WG sCaleWebs Unifying environmental and spatial determinants of food web structure across spatial scales10.-14.12.2018
02.-06.12.2019
18.-21.01.2021
(fully virtual)
11.-14.04.2022
Gustavo Q Romero
Diane S Srivastava
 
WG sREplot Upscaling of individual species dynamics to community trends in biodiversity and composition using vegetation change data sets 13.-16.11.2018
14.-17.05.2019
Lander Baeten
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
Ute Jandt
 
WG sTreelines Spatial pattern emergence from ecological processes at alpine treelines: model-supported hypothesis tests against globally-distributed field data 03.-06.12.2018
11.-14.11.2019
Maaike Bader
Bradley Case
 
WG sROOT Root Trait functionality in a Whole-Plant Context 22.-26.10.2018
06.-10.05.2019
27.- 31.01.2020
Liesje Mommer
Alexandra Weigelt
 
WG sTraitChange How do trait responses to climate change translate into demographic rates and population dynamics? 08.-11.10.2018
08.-11.04.2019
Viktoriia Radchuk
Marcel E. Visser
 
WG sUrBio2050 Assessing globally important areas for biodiversity preservation and human well-being 04.-07.09.2018
30.09.-02.10.2019
Rob McDonald
Henrique Pereira
Thomas Elmqvist
Andressa Vianna Mansur
WG sTWIST Theory and Workflows for Alien and Invasive Species Tracking20.-24.08.2018
03.-07.06.2019
02.-05.06.2020
19.-23.09.2022
Melodie McGeoch
Marten Winter
 
WG sEcoEvo Biodiversity Dynamics: The Nexus Between Space & Time 19.-23.03.2018
13.-17.08.2018
Rosemary Gillespie
Michael Hickerson
 
WG sELDiG Explaining the latitudinal diversity gradient: synthesizing knowledge via data-driven mechanistic modelling 16.-20.10.2017
11.-15.06.2018
Allen Hurlbert
Catherine Graham
 
WG sLandServ Linking Landscape Structure to Ecosystem Services 11.-14.12.2017
02.-06.07.2018
Jonathan Rhodes
Jean Paul Metzger
 
WG sOcioLock-in Understanding the undesirable resilience in socio-ecological systems driving biodiversity loss 05.-09.02.2018
04.-07.06.2018
Tom Oliver
Emily Boyd
 
WG sTURN Does time drive space? Building a mechanistic linkage between spatial and temporal turnover in metacommunities 06.-10.11.2017
05.-09.11.2018
Zsófia Horváth
Robert Ptacnik
 
WG sUrBioCity Deciphering Drivers of Urban Biodiversity across Multiple Scales 09.-13.10.2017
09.-13.04.2018
Christopher Swan  
WG sMon Synthesis and evaluation of monitoring data in Germany 27.-28.11.2017
22.-24.01.2018
23.-27.01.2023
Florian Jansen
Aletta Bonn
Helge Bruelheide
David Eichenberg
WG sECURE Separating Environmental Changes and their effects on commUnity tRaits in European butterflies 15.-19.05.2017
16.-20.04.2018
Oliver Schweiger
Josef Settele
 
WG sWORM A global soil biodiversity database and its application to data synthesis and theory development 14-17.03.2017
13.-16.11.2017
Erin Cameron
Nico Eisenhauer
Helen Phillips
WG sMonodominance Towards a unifying theory of the emergence and maintenance of monodominance in species-rich tropical forests 31.01.-03.02.2017
23.-26.01.2018
Andreas Huth
Kelvin Peh
 
WG sCAP Testing the conservation value of phylogenetic diversity 05.-08.12.2016
02.-05.05.2017
Arne Mooers
Caroline M. Tucker
 
WG sTeleBES Telecoupled use of biodiversity and ecosystem services: synthesis of concepts, methods and evidence 28.11.-02.12.2016
25.-29.09.2017
Matthias Schröter
Thomas Koellner
Aletta Bonn
 
WG sAPROPOS Analysis of PROjections of POpulationS 23.-25.11.2016
06.-10.02.2017
12.-16.06.2017
Roberto Salguero-Gomez  
WG sPRED Synthesizing Predictability Research of Ecological Dynamics 07.-11.11.2016
23.-27.10.2017
Frank Pennekamp
Alison Iles
 
WG sFDvent A functional trait perspective on the global biodiversity of hydrothermal vent communities 10.-13.10.2016
24.-28.04.2017
Amanda Bates
Abbie Chapman
 
WG sCAFE Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems in Open Systems 29.02.-04.03.2016
13.-17.06.2016
Morgan Ernest

Mathew Leibold
Katherine Bannar-Martin
WGsChangeQuantifying biodiversity change through time22.-26.02.2016Sarah Supp
Maria Dornelas
 
WG sPLAT Synthesis on Pollen Limitation And Terrestrial biodiversity 25.-29.01.2016 Tiffany Knight

Tia-Lynn Ashman

Janette Steets
 
WG sNiche Expanding Neo-Chessonian coexistence theory towards a stochastic theory for species rich communities 18.-20.01.2016
06.-08.06.2016
Thorsten Wiegand
Stan Harpole
 
WG sToichNutNet Linking ecological stoichiometry with environment‐diversity-productivity relationships in grasslands 11.-14.01.2016
09.-12.01.2017
19.-22.06.2017
Elizabeth Borer
Anne Ebeling
 
WG sMarD Global Changes in Marine Plankton Diversity and Productivity 30.11.-04.12.2015 Aleksandra Lewandowska
Boris Worm
 
WG sFIND Functional Information: its potential for quantifying biodiversity and its relation to ecosystem functioning 07.-11.09.2015 Keith Farnsworth
Ivo Große
 
WG Human decision making Synthesis of micro-scale human decision making to mitigate risks to ecosystem services 29.06.-03.07.2015 Maja Schlüter
Marco Janssen
 
WG sTEP Synthesising Trait Evolution in Plants 18.-21.05.2015 William Pearse
Jeannine Cavender-Bares
 
WG LU-BD-ES Effects of land use on the trade-off between biodiversity and provisioning ecosystem services 20.-24.04.2015 Ralf Seppelt  
WG sESMOD Next Generation Models for Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity 14.-17.04.2015 Elena Bennett
Gretchen Daily
 
WG sErvices Can ecological network information improve the efficacy of biodiversity conservation for ecosystem services in the face of unavoidable uncertainty? 16.-20.03.2015
04.-08.04.2016
Laura Dee
Steven Gaines
 
WG sEpiDiv Towards understanding the causes and consequences of epigenetic diversity 02.-06.03.2015
23.-25.09.2015
Katrin Heer
Lars Opgenoorth
 
WG Acacia invasions Anticipatory governance and societal feedbacks in socio-environmental transitions: multi-continental acacia invasions as a model system 16.-19.02.2015 Dave Richardson
Christoph Kueffer
 
WG JSCM International Joint Synthesis Centre Meeting 27.-30.01.2015 Marten Winter  
WG sEcoToxDiv Ecotoxicology for B-EF research: experimental design of aquatic multi-trophic experiments 15.-18.12.2014 Frederik De Laender
Paul Van den Brink
 
WG sFunDivEUROPE Synthesis workshop 24.-26.11.2014 Eric Allan
Lars Gamfeld
 
WG sRareBioS Importance of rare microbes for soil ecosystem services 25.-28.11.2014 Gera Hol
Alexandre Jousset
 
WG sUMMITDiv Europe’s alpine flora: past, present and future 10.-20.11.2014 Sonja Wipf  
WG sWEEP Synthetizing Worldwide Ecology, Evolution and Physiology 21.-24.10.2014 Miguel Ángel Olalla Tárraga
Ignacio Morales Castilla
Joanne Bennett
WG Biodiversity ChangeDebating the existence of local biodiversity loss and developing new projects to build consensus 10.-12.10.2014 Forest Isbell
Nico Eisenhauer
 
WG Urban ESS Ecological and Social Linkages among Biodiversity, ESS, and Environmental Policy and Management in the World’s Cities 01.-04.07.2014 Myla Aronson
Charles Nilon
 
WG From water to land Exploring the linkages between anthropogenically-driven shifts in marine and terrestrial biodiversity and ESS in a rapidly globalizing coastal region within a biodiversity hotspot 16.-19.06.2014 Seeta Sistla

Daniel Kramer
 
WG Restoration Synthesis Feedbacks between biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services during the recovery process of restored ecosystems after anthropogenic disturbance 26.-28.05.2014 David Moreno
Holly P. Jones
 
WG sFOSSIL Integrating Phylogenies, Fossils and Earth System Dynamics 05.-08.05.2014 Jan Schnitzler
Andreas Mulch
 
WG sOILDIV A framework to improve our understanding of the distribution of global soil biodiversity: establishing the first quantitative synthesis 01.-04.04.2014 Diana Wall
Kelly Ramirez
Kelly Ramirez
WG sTREEDIV Using Tree Diversity as an Insurance for the Stable Functioning of Forest Ecosystems 17.-21.03.2014 Andy Hector
Bart Muys
Simon Bilodeau-Gauthier
WG sTUNDRA Tundra ecosystem change: Scaling shrub expansion from site to biome 24.02.-07.03.2014
04.–08.05.2015
Isla Myers-Smith
Sarah Elmendorf
Anne Bjorkman
WG sCoMuCra Species communities harboring the outcome of plant diversification: museums and cradles 06.-11.01.2014 Andreas Prinzing Benjamin Yguel
WG sREGPOOL Biodiversity across spatial scales – linking macroecological models to local-scale biodiversity patterns by explicit delineation of the regional species pool 02.-06.12.2013 Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Jens-Christian
Svenning
 
WG sTOICHFUN Stoichiometric constraints of biodiversity – functioning relationships 25.-29.10.2013 Helmut Hillebrand Aleksandra Lewandowska
WG sPHY Synthesizing phylogenetic measures for ecology and conservation 19.-22.11.2013
20.-23.05.2014
Marc Cadotte
Dan Rosauer
 
WG rangeShifter Synthesising population, community, genetic and evolutionary dynamics in a simulation platform: a tool for theory and application 28.10.-01.11.2013
08.-12.09.2014
Justin Travis

Alexander Singer
Alexander Singer
WG sTability Plant diversity effects on ecosystem resistance to and recovery from perturbations 21.-23.10.2013
06.-10.10.2014
Nico Eisenhauer
Forest Isbell
Dylan Craven
WG TRANs-BEE Synthesising transcriptome data to explore interspecies bee-pathogen molecular interactions that may underpin pollinator decline 10.-11.10.2013
28.-29.04.2014
Christina Grozinger
Robert Paxton
Vincent Doublet
WG Physiodiv Biodiversity meets Physiology – Physiology meets Biodiversity 26.-27.09.2013 Christian Wilhelm  
WG TRY Towards a sustainable archive and sharing-mechanism for plant trait data: Refining the TRY initiative 03.-05.09.2013 Jens Kattge  
WG sPlot Plant trait-environment relationships, biodiversity and invasion patterns across the world’s biomes 06.-09.03.2013
02.-05.12.2014
24.-28.10.2016
Helge Bruelheide
Oliver Purschke
Jürgen Dengler
 
WG sMGI 3rd Mycorrhizal Genomics Initiative 09.-10.07.2013 François Buscot
Sylvie Herrmann
 
WG sImpact Impact of invasive alien species: prediction and quantification 01.-04.07.2013 Sabrina Kumschick  
WG ECOTRON Next generation biodiversity manipulation: Technical requirements for an ecotron platform06.-07.06.2013Stefan Meldau
Nico Eisenhauer
 
WG Inaugural Workshop Integrative Biodiversity Research – a young discipline under time pressure19.-21.04.2013Christian Wirth

Marten Winter