sFutures

Integrating functional and phylogenetic underpinnings into restoration science

First meeting: 10.-14.06.2024

PIs:
Magda Garbowski
Emma Ladouceur

iDiv member:
Emma Ladouceur

Project summary:
Our ability to restore vast swaths of degraded lands hinges on our ability to understand how multiple facets of biodiversity emerge in restored ecosystems. However, our current understanding of restoration outcomes is primarily based on taxonomic diversity. Understanding how taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity shape and are shaped by restoration efforts is crucial for upholding the promise of ecological restoration as a key solution for reestablishing biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions and services to degraded ecosystems.

In person participants:
Joe Atkinson (Aarhus University), Anna Abrahão (Universidade Federal do Ceará), Ana Carolina Oliveira (Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP)), Patrick Weigelt (University of Göttingen; Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography), Magda Garbowski (New Mexico State University), Laura Méndez (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)), Rajat Rastogi (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)), Gustavo Paterno (University of Göttingen; Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography)

Second meeting: 07.-11.07.2025

In person participants:

Rajat Rastogi (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)), Joe Atkinson (University of Adelaide), Laura Méndez (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)), Gustavo Paterno (University of Göttingen; Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography), Ana Carolina Oliveira (Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP)), Magda Garbowski (New Mexico State University), Anna Abrahão (Universidade Federal do Ceará), Annalena Mauz (University of Prince Edward Island), Kimberly Thompson (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv))