21 November 2022 - 25 November 2022 Metz, France
Monday, 21 November 2022
14:00 > 18:00 W1 14:00 > 18:00 An introduction to modeling and synthesizing Integral Projection Models using the R packages ipmr and Rpadrino Room 08
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14:00 > 18:00 W2 14:00 > 18:00 Transfer of anthropogenic stress from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems – perspectives from young researchers Room : 11 + 12
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14:00 > 18:00 W3 14:00 > 18:00 Comparing non-systematic and systematic review methods for environmental evidence: an introduction to different literature review approaches, their advantages and limitations Room 07
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14:00 > 18:00 W4 14:00 > 18:00 How to better manage your data - and thereby enrich research Room 09 + 10
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14:00 > 18:00 W5 14:00 > 18:00 e-Tools and resources to address key ecological questions on Non-indigenous and Invasive Species Room 13
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14:00 > 16:00 W6 14:00 > 16:00 “Who owns my data? On our way to open data - Nagoya and beyond! Room 02
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14:00 > 16:00 W7 14:00 > 16:00 Telling ecological stories through photography Room 03
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18:15 > 19:45 WR 18:15 > 19:45 Welcome reception Hall 2.1
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Tuesday, 22 November 2022
08:30 > 09:00 OC 08:30 > 09:00 Opening ceremony Auditorium
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09:00 > 09:45 P1 09:00 > 09:45 Urban evolutionary ecology: new perspectives on (mal)adaptation in a rapidly changing world Auditorium
There is a rising tide of interest in urban environments: with the world’s human population still growing and UN habitat predictions forecasting that by 2050, 7 people out of 10 will be living in urban areas, the urban space is of intrinsic focal interest to humans worldwide, biologists included. With its conspicuously altered ecological dynamics, the urban environment stands in stark contrast to the natural environment that has been used as research ground for virtually all long-term studies of vertebrates investigated in the wild and used as cornerstones in evolutionary ecology research.
In this talk, Dr Charmantier will present a nascent, yet fast-growing field of research: Urban Evolutionary Ecology. She will present a diversity of studies in a large range of taxa, including work of her group on forest and urban great tits. She will argue that the city offers unique opportunities to study fundamental eco-evolutionary processes and will show how this work can provide novel insight for urban conservation planning.

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09:45 > 10:15 CB1 09:45 > 10:15 Coffee break Halls 1 & 2
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09:45 > 10:15 M1 09:45 > 10:15 Free discussion with Anne Charmantier Room 13
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10:15 > 12:15 S1 10:15 > 12:15 Pollinator conservation in urban and agricultural environments: comparison of management practices Auditorium
Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium:
Alice Michelot-Antalik, Laboratoire Agronomie et Environnement, alice.michelot@univ-lorraine.fr

Co-organizers of the symposium:
Isabelle Dajoz, Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris, isabelle.dajoz@univ-paris-diderot.fr

Session description:

Within the next 30 years, the land-cover of anthropized habitats such as agricultural and urban habitats is scheduled to increase by at least 50%. Assessing how the management practices of these habitats impact on their biodiversity and ability to provide ecosystem goods and services is therefore critical. Among pivotal ecosystem functions, pollination is partly provided by insects like Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Coleoptera in temperate ecosystems. Maintaining pollinating insects is essential in agricultural landcapes, as crop production depends on pollination for 75% of cultivated plants. Pollinator conservation in urbanized habitats is also important, because of the increasing need for local food production and the risk of parallel declines between pollinating insects and flowering plants, in a context of growing need of citizens for nature and biodiversity in their surroundings. In these two examples of ecosystems, pollinator conservation requires changes in management practices, including less pesticides use. It also seems essential to rethink composition and structure of landscapes and the connectivity of favourable habitats, while preserving the diversity of floral resources for pollinator feeding and nesting spaces for their reproduction. The aim of this symposium is to gather knowledge on how changes in the management practices and landscape structure of anthropized environments impact on the diversity of pollinating insects and the maintenance of the pollinating function. We will discuss about the effectiveness of these management changes for pollinator conservation, in a context of agro-ecological transition and conciliation between human activity and biodiversity conservation.

Sponsorship: This symposium is supported by GDR Pollineco, which is a research network of 200 researchers, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students of France, Belgium and Switzerland (financed by INEE and the Ministry of ecological transition). The GDR would be taken in charge the travel expenses of invited speakers.

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Behavioural and dispersal ecology 10:15 > 12:15 R7 10:15 > 12:15 Behavioural and dispersal ecology (1/2) Room : 11 + 12
  • Chair : J. Jana ECCARD (UNIVERSTITY POTSDAM)
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Forest ecology in a context of global change 10:15 > 12:15 R3 10:15 > 12:15 Forest ecology in a context of global change (1/3) Room 01
  • Chair : F. Francisco LLORET (CREAF, UAB)
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Phenotypic plasticity, epigenetic, and environmental change 10:15 > 12:15 R4 10:15 > 12:15 Phenotypic plasticity, epigenetic, and environmental change Room 02
  • Chair : A. Arnaud SENTIS (Inrae)
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Conservation biology 10:15 > 12:15 R5 10:15 > 12:15 Conservation biology (1/2) Room 03
  • Chair : J. Julie DETER (Université De Montpellier)
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10:15 > 12:15 S2 10:15 > 12:15 Integrating narratives, cognitive maps and modelling to explore socio-ecosystems plausible futures with stakeholders. Room 05
· Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium (Name, institution, email):
This person is the point of contact for the session, is responsible for communicating with speakers, and will play the role of moderator during the symposium (possibly with another person to be identified).

Hélène Soubelet
Foundation for research on biodiversity (FRB)
helene.soubelet@fondationbiodiversite.fr


· Co-organizers of the symposium (Names, institutions, emails):

Aurélie Delavaud
Foundation for research on biodiversity (FRB)
aurelie.delavaud@fondationbiodiversite.fr


· Session description

Ambitious biodiversity policies within the framework of “transformative change” (Ipbes, 2019) require convincing “desirable” scenarios, supported by robust modelling, related with stakeholders cognition and imaginaries, aspirations.
Scenarios consider multiple plausible, alternative, futures, based on 1/ present decisions and actions of societies, 2/ relationships within socio-ecosystems and 3/ uncertainties. They can, in turn, help to build future responses and solutions, to consider the necessary decisions and actions.

This symposium, organized as a round table, will discuss the conceptual and methodological issues of an interdisciplinary program focused on participatory construction of exploratory and/or targeted scenarios (Ipbes, 2016). Their development requires the use of qualitative and quantitative methods based on data and participatory methods (Oteros-Rozas et al., 2011) (Kok and Van Delden, 2013).

From this perspective, we plan, with stakeholders, to connect qualitative / quantitative data collected via narratives / cognitive maps and quantitative models:
• Narratives: science-fiction, projection into a desirable future but also dystopia, interaction of stakeholders, management of “common goods”, anticipation of lock-ins… with perspective to establishing a platform for the exchange of practices (protocols, case-studies, achievements).
• Cognitive maps: representation of biodiversity-science-society relations or coevolution, convergences or contradictions between individual and collective representations and actions, role of scientists, decision-makers, social movement and media in collective decision-making…
• Modelling: inclusion of societal aspects (e.g. organization, values, technologies), of mechanisms and interactions within socio-ecosystems, prioritization of direct and indirect pressures, responses and adaptations, uncertainties…

Practical cases, based on natural-based solutions, their promises and limits, could be considered.

At the end, this program will help to:
• Scientifically explore biodiversity complexity: dynamics, interactions and non-linearities, uncertainty.
• Move towards a shared stewardship of biodiversity issues with stakeholders: awareness, knowledge, responsibilities assumption, democratic debate, collective organization…
• Identify and prioritize levers and leverage points proficient to initiate transformative changes.

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10:15 > 12:15 S3 10:15 > 12:15 Trophic and non-trophic interactions in the heterogeneous and opaque soil matrix Room 06
Main organizer of the symposium
Amandine, UMR Eco&Sols, IRD, Montpellier, France,
amandine.erktan@ird.fr


Co-organizers of the symposium
Jingzhong Lu, University of Goettingen, Animal ecology group, Goettingen, Germany,
jlu@gwdg.de

Abstract:
Soil is a heterogeneous and opaque environment that limit interactions between soil organisms. Trophic interactions determine the transformation of organic matter and the flux of energy across trophic levels. Biomarkers enabled to describe complex soil food webs with increasing precision, but what determine interactions remains largely unknown. Soil structure may be an important determinant of trophic interaction but was little studied yet. In addition, non-trophic interactions co-occur with trophic ones, and are also crucial to determine soil functioning, but trophic and non-trophic interactions rarely studied together in soils. For example, ecosystem engineers that modify the soil structure interact with numerous soil organisms by shaping their habitat, modifying their mobility and dispersal. Ecosystem engineers modify the pore structure and connectivity, and thus the renewal of gas and transfer of liquid phase, which is essential for the activity of soil organisms. Changes in soil pore connectivity is also thought to drive encounter probabilities between soil organisms, and thus trophic interactions.
To better understand what drives interactions in soil and how it affect soil functioning, a spatial approach is needed. We envision that interdisciplinary work at the interface between soil ecology and soil physics (that enable to describe the soil structure/microhabitats) will provide clues to advance this research frontier. This symposium aims to provide an overview of methods (experimental, modelling) to study trophic and non-trophic interactions in soil, and recent conceptual advance on the topic.

Speakers:

- Melanie Pollierer
J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Goettingen, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073, Goettingen, Germany, Melanie.Pollierer@biologie.uni-goettingen.de

- Elly Morriën, S.E. Hannula, L.B. Snoek, W.H. van der Putten
Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED-ELD), University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94240, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

- Edith Hammer
Lund University, Sweden, edith.hammer@biol.lu.se

- Xiaoli Yang, Steffen Schlüter, Nico Eisenhauer, Martin Schädler
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Halle, Germany, xiaoli.yang@ufz.de
German Centre for Indiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany

- Sébastien Barot,
IEES-Paris, IRD, France, sebastien.barot@ird.fr

- Maik Lucas, Andrey Guber, Alexander Kravchenko
DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, lucasmai@msu.edu
Department of Soil System Sciences, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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Landscape ecology 10:15 > 12:15 R6 10:15 > 12:15 Landscape ecology (1/2) Room 09 + 10
  • Chair : C. Clémentine FRITSCH (CNRS)
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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a changing world 10:15 > 12:15 R1 10:15 > 12:15 Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a changing world (1/4) Verlaine A
  • Chair : J. Joséphine LEFLAIVE (UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE 3)
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Eco-toxicology and environmental pollution 10:15 > 12:15 R2 10:15 > 12:15 Eco-toxicology and environmental pollution (1/2) Verlaine B
  • Chair : L. Laetitia MINGUEZ (CNRS)
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12:15 > 13:45 L1 12:15 > 13:45 Lunch Halls 1 & 2
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12:45 > 13:45 W9 12:45 > 13:45 Promoting your research Room : 11 + 12
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12:45 > 13:45 W8 12:45 > 13:45 Career outside academia Room 02
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Agroecology/ecology of agroecosystems 13:45 > 15:45 R8 13:45 > 15:45 Agro-Ecology (1/4) Auditorium
  • Chair : S. Sébastien BAROT (Ird)
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Forest ecology in a context of global change 13:45 > 15:45 R11 13:45 > 15:45 Forest ecology in a context of global change (2/3) Room 01
  • Chair : J. Juergen KREYLING (UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD)
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Disturbance and resilience ecology 13:45 > 15:45 R12 13:45 > 15:45 Disturbance and resilience ecology Room 02
  • Chair : C. Cristina MÁGUAS (EEF)
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Conservation biology 13:45 > 15:45 R13 13:45 > 15:45 Conservation biology (2/2) Room 03
  • Chair : A. Alice MICHELOT-ANTALIK (UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE)
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Theoretical ecology and ecological modelling 13:45 > 15:45 R14 13:45 > 15:45 Theoretical ecology and ecological modelling Room 05
  • Chair : C. Carsten DORMANN (UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG)
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13:45 > 15:45 S4 13:45 > 15:45 Machine learning for ecological images. Room 06
Main organizer of the symposium :
Sakina-Dorothée AYATA, LOCEAN, Sorbonne Université, sakina-dorothee.ayata@locean.ipsl.fr

Co-organizers of the symposium (Names, institutions, emails):
- Martin LAVIALE, LIEC, Université de Lorraine, martin.laviale@univ-lorraine.fr
- Jean-Olivier IRISSON, LOV, Sorbonne Université, jean-olivier.irisson@imev-mer.fr
- Frédéric MAPS, Université Laval, Québec, frederic.maps@bio.ulaval.ca

Session description (max 300 words):
More and more ecologists are now using various types of images to address ecological questions. These images include satellite data of continental landscapes and ocean surface, photos of large organisms taken from camera traps, underwater videos of fish or benthic habitats, individual images of organisms taken in situ or in the lab, plant images taken from a smartphone, etc. Although these images have very different characteristics (automatic vs manual acquisition, homogeneous or complex background, community, population or individual scale, pixel resolution, color vs. back and white, etc.), ecologists are facing common issues and challenges. They include in particular detection and segmentation problems, how to efficiently use transfer learning approaches or how to deal with class imbalance in automatic classification algorithms. This symposium aims at gathering computer scientists interested in ecological applications and ecologists collecting and analyzing ecological images to exchange on common interdisciplinary issues.

· Speakers
Keynote: Kristian Meissner (SYKE, Finland): computer vision and deep learning for aquatic monitoring and decision making (25+10 min) - Confirmed

Regards croisés: Cédric Pradalier (GeorgiaTech Lorraine Metz) & Martin Laviale (LIEC, Université de Lorraine): Using ML for environmental monitoring, different perspectives froma computer scientist and an ecologist.
25 min incl. discussions (7 + 7 + 10min of discussion) -


Short talks:
(10+5 min /speaker)
- Jean-Olivier Irisson: Assisted annotation and EcoTaxa, a tool to support the
annotation of large image datasets by supervised machine learning prediction.

- Julien Renoult (CEFE, Montpellier): Using deep neural networks to study the
evolution of visual phenotypes. (Remote presentation)

- Jędrzej Świeżewski and Piotr Pasza Storożenko (Appsilon, Poland) Robust
ecological analysis of camera trap data labeled by a machine learning model OR/AND ML for ecological applications, example on estimating functional traits in images, the example of copepod lipid sacs.

- Michael Kloster (Univ Duisbourg, Germany): Deep learning-based diatom taxonomy on virtual slides for diatoms.

· Sponsorship:
This symposium is co-organised by several french and international initiatives (SU-ISCDFORMAL, ANR-SmartBiodiv, SN-Artifactz) that can cover for the travel of the invited speakers (secured funding).

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Landscape ecology 13:45 > 15:45 R15 13:45 > 15:45 Landscape ecology (2/2) Room 09 + 10
  • Chair : M. Marc DECONCHAT (Inrae)
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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a changing world 13:45 > 15:45 R9 13:45 > 15:45 Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a changing world (2/4) Verlaine A
  • Chair : B. Benoit GAUZENS (IDIV)
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Eco-toxicology and environmental pollution 13:45 > 15:45 R10 13:45 > 15:45 Eco-toxicology and environmental pollution (2/2) Verlaine B
  • Chair : C. Clémentine FRITSCH (CNRS)
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Behavioural and dispersal ecology 14:00 > 15:45 R16 14:00 > 15:45 Behavioural and dispersal ecology (2/2) Room : 11 + 12
  • Chair : S. Sylvie MASSEMIN (IPHC, CNRS)
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15:45 > 16:15 CB2 15:45 > 16:15 Coffee break Halls 1 & 2
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Agroecology/ecology of agroecosystems 16:15 > 18:15 R17 16:15 > 18:15 Agro-Ecology (2/4) Auditorium
  • Chair : A. Antoine GARDARIN (Inrae - Agroparistech)
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Aquatic Ecology 16:15 > 18:15 R24 16:15 > 18:15 Aquatic Ecology Room : 11 + 12
  • Chair : T. Thomas RUIZ (LMGE)
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Forest ecology in a context of global change 16:15 > 18:15 R20 16:15 > 18:15 Forest ecology in a context of global change (3/3) Room 01
  • Chair : M. Michael SCHERER-LORENZEN (University Of Freiburg)
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Soil ecology 16:15 > 18:15 R21 16:15 > 18:15 Soil ecology Room 02
  • Chair : J. Julia CLAUSE (UNIVERSITY OF POITIERS)
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Population and community ecology, from micro to macroorganisms 16:15 > 18:15 R22 16:15 > 18:15 Population and community ecology, from micro to macroorganisms Room 03
  • Chair : I. Isabelle GOUNAND (CNRS)
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16:15 > 18:15 S5 16:15 > 18:15 Ecological interaction networks for action Room 05
Main organizer of the symposium :Franck JABOT, INRAE, franck.jabot@inrae.fr
Co-organizers of the symposium : Pierre QUÉVREUX, INRAE, pierre.quevreux@inrae.fr

Session description
Biodiverse ecosystems harbors numerous and tangled ecological interactions that shape their functioning and dynamics. The study of ecological interaction networks has led to a substantial body of theoretical knowledge. We now understand the general relationships between the structure and dynamics of food webs and mutualistic networks, as well as the main drivers of network assembly. These general advances have been possible thanks to pioneering empirical works that have assembled challenging data on interaction networks. This limiting step of data acquisition is being revolutionized by modern technologies such as DNA meta-barcoding or autonomous devices for sound and image processing. These next generation techniques not only change our previous understanding of ecological interactions, but also offer the promises of democratizing the collection and use of network data for a wide array of applications. These applications include the integrated management of ecosystems for conservation, the design and monitoring of sustainable fisheries, the ecological intensification of agriculture or the design of biodiversity-friendly productive landscapes, all of these applications being of tremendous relevance to tackle the challenges posed by global changes.
The objective of this symposium is to spotlight recent works that mobilize a network approach for ecological applications, in a wide array of ecosystem types. By gathering scientists belonging to distinct scientific communities, we aim at revealing common trends, challenges and perspectives for the use of ecological interaction networks for action.
Organization of the session: 7 talks of 15 min including questions followed by 15 min of general discussion with the audience on the perspectives of use of network approaches for action.

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16:15 > 18:15 S6 16:15 > 18:15 Racism in ecology and evolution: Lessons from E.O. Wilson’s legacy Room 06
Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium:
- Philippe Huneman (IHPST, CNRS/Université Paris I Sorbonne, France, philippe.huneman@gmail.com)

- Emanuel A. Fronhofer (ISEM, CNRS/Université de Montpellier, France, emanuel.fronhofer@umontpellier.fr)

Session description:
Racism has been closely entangled with research in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) since its beginnings. For instance, eugenics has plagued the birth of population genetics, and is closely entangled with major groundbreaking work, such Galton’s work on heritability or Fisher’s seminal 1930 book. While many biologists were deeply involved in the fight against racism, first of all by deconstructing the vernacular, phenotypic-based, notion of race, depriving it of any biological significance (e.g., Mayr or Dobzhansky and their contribution to the UNESCO declaration on race), a few others have consistently performed questionable investigations with a clear racist agenda. Scientific racism, intertwined first with the concepts of r-K selection, and now with behavioural genomics, keeps emerging at the margins of ecology and evolution.
Current societal movements such as #BlackLivesMatter or prominent popular scientific publications like Saini’s “Superior” have cast a new spotlight on racism (both open and systemic) in EEB. Most recently an intense discussion regarding E.O. Wilson’s legacy, sparked by McLemore’s highly debated Opinion piece in Scientific American, its answers by prominent evolutionary biologists, and papers by historians (e.g., Borello and Sepkoski in NYRB, which, in the past, has hosted heated debates about sociobiology), who documented controversial unpublished letters by E.O. Wilson, has erupted, putting racism at the center stage of various social media discussions in the EEB social media bubble.
Interestingly, this discussion, which we urgently need to have as a scientific field, has largely taken place outside of scientific societies and, at the same time, has not taken advantage of the existing competence of researchers studying research, that is, historians and philosophers of science. Our symposium is a first attempt at formalizing this discussion in order to help the EEB community face up to its racist past and pave the way for a more inclusive future.

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Methodolologies and infrastructures for large datasets 16:15 > 18:15 R23 16:15 > 18:15 Methodologies and infrastructures for large and long term datasets (1/2) Room 09 + 10
  • Chair : A. Alberto BASSET (LIFEWATCH ERIC)
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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a changing world 16:15 > 18:15 R18 16:15 > 18:15 Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a changing world (3/4) Verlaine A
  • Chair : K. Kerstin WIEGAND (UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN)
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Ecology, functioning and evolution of urban and anthropized systems 16:15 > 18:15 R19 16:15 > 18:15 Ecology, functioning and evolution of urban and anthropized systems (1/2) Verlaine B
  • Chair : S. Sonja KNAPP (Helmholtz-Centre For Environmental Research - Ufz)
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18:15 > 19:00 SE6 18:15 > 19:00 SE6 : Meeting of the SFE² group for landscape ecology Room 13
Main organizer: Marc Deconchat marc.deconchat@inrae.fr
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18:30 > 20:00 SE7 18:30 > 20:00 Meeting of the EEF group Verlaine A
Main organizer: Cristina Màguas
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19:00 > 20:00 P2 19:00 > 20:00 Valérie Masson-Delmotte, CEA and Co-Chair, Working Group I. IPCC Auditorium
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Wednesday, 23 November 2022
08:30 > 08:45 WI 08:30 > 08:45 Welcome & informations Auditorium
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08:45 > 09:30 P3 08:45 > 09:30 Giving anthropocene a chance. Ecological restoration to respond to the environmental crisis Auditorium
Global degradation has a negative impact on the well-being of at least 3.2 billion people and represents a cost of more than 10% of the annual gross world product in loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Alongside climate change, unsustainable land and ocean uses threaten the survival of a quarter of global species and affect the provision of ecosystem services crucial to our well-being. Ecological restoration can help protect biodiversity, increase the provision of ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration, and improve human well-being. The UN Decade of Ecological Restoration 2021-2030 and the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 define a new framework to meet global environmental challenges and improve the status of European nature. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across Europe should join forces to define restoration strategies that are based on a thorough understanding of social-ecological systems. These strategies must address multiple management scales, integrating ecological restoration into land-use planning, and responding to the challenge posed by international commitments. The European proposal of Nature Restoration Law will entail the need to (i) update the proposed guidelines at national and subnational level, (ii) develop prioritization frameworks and define priority areas for restoration, integrating top-down and bottom-up initiatives, (iii) analyze the consequences of different restoration scenarios, (iv) design operational participation protocols in the different phases of restoration programs, and (v) explore business opportunities in urban and rural settings. In this presentation, I will summarize the Nature Restoration Law, review its challenges and opportunities, and propose a multidisciplinary approach for translating the law into national guidelines and priorities for ecological restoration. The approach is structured along 5 main axes: diagnose, prioritization, financing and cost-effectiveness, social impact and participation, and quality, and it is currently being developed in a project led by the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, involving ca. 100 experts.
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09:30 > 10:00 CB3 09:30 > 10:00 Coffee break Halls 1 & 2
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09:30 > 10:00 M2 09:30 > 10:00 Free discussion with Jordi Cortina (Plenary 2) Room 13
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10:00 > 12:00 S7 10:00 > 12:00 Diversification of agricultural landscapes to promote pollinator biodiversity and pollination service delivery. Auditorium
Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium (Name, institution, email): Thijs Fijen, Wageningen University & Research, thijs.fijen@wur.nl

Co-organizers of the symposium (Names, institutions, emails): Catrin Westphal, University of Göttingen / Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, catrin.westphal@agr.uni-goettingen.de

Session description :
Land use change and agricultural intensification are considered major drivers of biodiversity loss and can impair ecosystem functions and services in agricultural landscapes. At the same time, agricultural production relies on vital agroecosystems and species providing important ecosystem services, such as decomposition, biological pest control and pollination. Hence, we need innovative production systems that sustain agrobiodiversity and promote ecosystem services (e.g. ecological intensification). Moreover, managing agricultural landscapes for heterogeneity could simultaneously enhance agricultural production and agrobiodiversity. While scientific support that these practices should work, examples that show that this works in practice are relatively scarce.
In this symposium, we will focus on how different approaches and measures increase the diversification of cropping systems in agricultural landscapes, and what their effects are on pollinator conservation and pollination services. The two main approaches to enhance diversity in agricultural landscapes are to increase diversity within the agricultural system itself, or to increase diversity in non-productive habitats. For instance, changes in the agricultural system, such as intercropping, mixed-cropping or the diversification of crop sequences, could result in enhanced crop diversity in space and time, and subsequently higher pollinator biodiversity and pollination services. At the landscape level, diversification of biodiversity-friendly land cover types, such as semi-natural habitats or agri-environmental measures, could contribute to increased heterogeneity of the landscape, with positive effects on biodiversity and provisioning of ecosystem services. In this symposium, we will highlight examples of what works and what does not work, and what appears to be success factors or barriers. We will furthermore synthesize evidence on how crop cultivation can contribute to pollinator conservation and discuss future avenues for more pollinator-friendly and productive agricultural landscapes.

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Services provided by ecosystems and biodiversity 10:00 > 12:00 R30 10:00 > 12:00 Services provided by ecosystems and biodiversity (1/2) Room : 11 + 12
  • Chair : S. Sara LEONHARDT (TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH)
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10:00 > 12:00 S8 10:00 > 12:00 Which management practices for the adaptation of forests to climate change? Room 01
Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium (Name, institution, email):
Xavier Morin, CNRS, xavier.morin@cefe.cnrs.fr

Co-organizers of the symposium (Names, institutions, emails):

Joannès Guillemot, CIRAD, joannes.guillemot@cirad.fr
Hervé Jactel, INRAE, herve.jactel@inrae.fr


Session description :
Climate change impacts and related disturbances are strongly affecting forests worldwide. Tree mortality is increasing while forest productivity is declining in many regions, which compromises crucial contributions of forests to people (goods provision such as wood or non-woody products, habitat provision for biodiversity, air and water filtering, protection against natural hazards and soil erosion…), as well as the possibility of using forest conservation and restoration as a Nature based Solution for climate change mitigation. The adaptation of forests to climate change is a tremendous challenge for practitioners, as recognized in recent ambitious international commitment such as the European Green Deal. Yet, adaptive forest management needs to accommodate multi-dimensional constraints, including the economic aspects. The design of new management guidelines to be adopted in the face of climate change is thus strongly debated. In particular, tree diversity was identified as a crucial leverage for forest adaption, for instance via provenance selection and tree species mixing. Other proposed practices, such as more frequent thinning, increased harvesting intensity or introduction of exotic species, need to be discussed in light of both carbon sequestration and biodiversity objectives. As this topic is now strongly linked to current decision in national and international forest policies, it seems timely to hold this symposium as it will review the current scientific evidence supporting (or not) methods of forest adaption to climate change, and discuss their implications for biodiversity conservation and the forest’s contributions to people.

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Plant Ecology 10:00 > 12:00 R27 10:00 > 12:00 Plant Ecology Room 02
  • Chair : S. Stefan KLOTZ (HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FÜR UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH – UFZ)
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Chemical ecology 10:00 > 12:00 R28 10:00 > 12:00 Chemical ecology Room 03
  • Chair : E. Elisabeth Maria GROSS (UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE)
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10:00 > 12:00 S9 10:00 > 12:00 Arts -Sciences Room 05
Main organizer of the symposium:
Clavel Joanne
CR CNRS, UMR7533, LADYSS, Université Paris Cité.
joanne.clavel@cnrs.fr


Session description

Arts are privileged places of individual and collective recomposition of cultural processes. They document the concerns of their time but they also carry new horizons of desires and practices for the future societies. The arts shape ways of seeing, feeling, moving and speaking about the world. In this way they open sensitive paths, symbols, figures, stories, corporalities, thus building collective cultural perceptions that reinvent our relationship to reality.

Artists and scientists cultivate different ways of looking at the world from practices and theoretical frameworks that are often unfamiliar to both. If creativity seems to be common, the investigations, the analyses, the modes of productions or restitution seem very distant, even antinomic and so often hierarchize in terms of knowledges. In the last twenty years, fruitful alliances between Arts and Sciences have been invented and growing on ecological themes. Visual artists, choreographers, sound artists, circus artists… call upon scientists for their projects (Nicolas Floch', Anaïs Tondeur, (n), Jennifer Monson, Andrea Olsen...). Initiatives from scientists emerge also.

Faced with ecological disasters, many scientists who actively contribute to enlighten and disentangle the phenomena in progress, try to make their research known to the general public through art. They estimate that the sensitive and formal character (visual, sensory, immersive) of arts would be promising to the transmissions of knowledge, to the public debate of our collective futures. Facing the current state of the world and the political inaction, they are often themselves taken by feelings of hopelessness and discouragement to which the scientific register, little able to recognize the existence of subjectivation processes, cannot answer.
From this form of art instrumentalization sometimes comes experiences full of creative synergies that will be shared, without omitting the difficulties of interdisciplinary work. During this symposium we will also discuss how arts-sciences intersect, for instance in terms of “methods” employed, and how this contributes to a renewal of study corpus. The Symposium welcome scientists mainly from scientific ecology (the SFE2, Gfö, EEF communities) who are engaged in singular approaches with artists, artworks or artistic practices.

11H40 General discussion

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10:00 > 12:00 S10 10:00 > 12:00 The Physics of Ecological Interactions Room 06
Main organizer of the symposium:
Mehdi Cherif, FRENCH NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT (INRAE), mehdi.cherif@inrae.fr


Session description:

Ecosystems face massive anthropogenic disruptions. It is thus imperative to develop a predictive approach to the dynamics of populations and communities subjected to changing environmental conditions. The study of the effect of climate-defining physical factors on the biogeochemical processes of the ecosystem is already well developed. But there is no equivalent theory yet on the direct effects of these same factors on intraspecific and interspecific ecological interactions. A theory describing interactions between individuals in a mechanistic way will necessarily be complex, because it must integrate physiological, behavioral and ecological processes. Adding a physical, environmental component can, however, help to simplify it. Indeed, physical laws are ubiquitous and unescapable. All ecological interactions includes physical processes, since they require from the individuals involved to perform mechanical movements or use their physical senses. Many advances have resulted from the use of physical principles in order to predict the existence and intensity of trophic interactions. New fields of research with more or less overlapping domains have appeared: ecomechanics, physical ecology, mechanoethology, mechanical ecology, among others. This symposium aims to define the potentialities and limits of a mechanistic approach to ecological interactions based on the physical properties of both the environment and the organisms. This analysis will be done through presentations of case studies and theoretical models, followed by a panel discussion with the aim to unify frameworks and methodologies.

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Methodolologies and infrastructures for large datasets 10:00 > 12:00 R29 10:00 > 12:00 Methodologies and infrastructures for large and long term datasets (2/2) Room 09 + 10
  • Chair : S-D. Sakina-Dorothée AYATA (SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ)
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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a changing world 10:00 > 12:00 R25 10:00 > 12:00 Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a changing world (4/4) Verlaine A
  • Chair : E. Elisa THÉBAULT (IEES-PARIS, CNRS)
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Ecology, functioning and evolution of urban and anthropized systems 10:00 > 12:00 R26 10:00 > 12:00 Ecology, functioning and evolution of urban and anthropized systems (2/2) Verlaine B
  • Chair : S. Sonja KNAPP (Helmholtz-Centre For Environmental Research - Ufz)
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12:00 > 13:45 L2 12:00 > 13:45 Lunch Halls 1 & 2
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12:45 > 13:45 W11 12:45 > 13:45 Impostor syndrome Room : 11 + 12
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12:45 > 13:45 W12 12:45 > 13:45 From raw biodiversity data to operational indicators through Essential Biodiversity Variables Room 02
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12:45 > 13:45 W10 12:45 > 13:45 Phenology-trait relationships in plants across different scales Room 07
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13:45 > 14:25 P4 13:45 > 14:25 GfÖ awardee lecture : 30 years of research in ecosystem ecology, driven by curiosity, grand challenges and opportunities Auditorium
How to summarize 30 years of research? A challenging task, but as is science. Early on, ecosystems were my objects of research, and they stayed in the focus ever since. From questions how ecosystems responded to N deposition and what the fate of this N within the system was, to questions how terrestrial ecosystems from the boreal zone to the tropics function in terms of their biogeochemistry and biosphere-atmosphere exchange, to questions how climate change, biodiversity loss, and land use affect those processes on the systems scale, the breadth of my research topics over these 30 years has been large. The choice of these topics has always been driven by curiosity and the ambition to work on grand challenges, contributing to science-based, sustainable solutions using observations and experiments. This also meant leaving my comfort zone of existing knowledge of facts, techniques, and ecosystems, challenging at times, but always rewarding. Complementing classical ecological methodology with those from micrometeorology and stable isotope applications opened new windows on those ecosystem processes, offering insights at different time scales, from 20 Hz to centuries. Working with great group members and incredible colleagues in small, national to big, international projects further sparked ideas, taken up in projects, publications or awaiting the reviewers ́ decisions.
The Swiss FluxNet, a network of six long-term ecosystem flux measurement sites, is the base of many projects. We quantify greenhouse gas fluxes and their drivers for three major land-use types in Switzerland, i.e., cropland, grassland, and forest. Up to now, we have 111 site-years of flux data, all openly available, ranging from CO2 and H2O vapour fluxes from a cropland with the 2nd longest time- series globally to CH4 and N2O fluxes of grassland and forest at different elevations. Measurements on soil carbon stocks, vegetation phenology, plant ecophysiology or remotely sensed proxies complement these flux studies. In this talk, selected highlights of past and on-going research will be presented.

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Agroecology/ecology of agroecosystems 14:30 > 16:30 R31 14:30 > 16:30 Agro-Ecology (3/4) Auditorium
  • Chair : F. Florian KLETTY (UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LILLE)
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Services provided by ecosystems and biodiversity 14:30 > 16:30 R34 14:30 > 16:30 Services provided by ecosystems and biodiversity (2/2) Room : 11 + 12
  • Chair : M. Michael KLEYER (University Of Oldenburg)
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Evolution approaches for understanding ecological features 14:30 > 16:30 R33 14:30 > 16:30 Evolution approaches for understanding ecological features (1/3) Room 01
  • Chair : A. Anne CHARMANTIER (CEFE CNRS UMR 5175)
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14:30 > 16:30 S19 14:30 > 16:30 The dynamics of multi-layer ecological networks Room 02
Main organizer of the symposium:
Sonia Kéfi, CNRS, Montpellier (France), Sonia.kefi@umontpellier.fr

Co-organizers of the symposium:
Ulrich Brose, iDiv, Leipzig (Germany), ulrich.brose@idiv.de

Abstract:
Networks provide a powerful way to explore ecological complexity and have generated numerous insights into the understanding of the structure, function, and dynamics of ecological communities. While ecological networks have been fundamental to ecological theory, they have mostly been defined at a single point in space and time, and/or aggregated over multiple spatial locations and times. Moreover, they typically describe a single interaction type at a time (e.g. feeding or competition), although species in nature are clearly connected by a myriad of interaction types simultaneously. A few years ago, advances in the theory of ‘multilayer’ networks have provided a promising approach to incorporate these different facets of complexity in our descriptions of ecological communities. Such an approach allows space, time, multiple organizational levels and multiple interaction types to be incorporated into species interaction networks. The objective of this symposium is to show recent progresses made in the study of multilayer networks and to discuss how these novel approaches have contributed to improving our current understanding of ecological communities.

Speakers:

- Kayla Sale-Hale (1), Elisa Thébault (2), Fernanda Valdovinos (3)
(1) University of Michigan, USA
(2) iEES Paris, CNRS, France
(3) UC Davis, USA

- Virginia Domínguez-García (1,2), Sonia Kéfi (1)
(1) ISEM, CNRS, Univ. Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
(2) Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain

- Barbara Bauer*,1,2,3, Emilio Berti*,1,2, Remo Ryser*,1,2, Benoit Gauzens1,2, Myriam R. Hirt1,2 , Benjamin Rosenbaum1,2 , Christoph Digel4, David Ott5,6, Stefan Scheu7,8, Ulrich Brose 1,2

1Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
2German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena- Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
3Zoological Institute and Museum & Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
4Umweltbundesamt, Dessau- Roßlau, Germany
5Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
6Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany
7JFB Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

- Christian Guill1,*, Janne Hülsemann1, Louica Philipp1, Toni Klauschies1
* guill@uni-potsdam.de
1Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam

- Julie Teresa Shapiro1, Alvah Zorea1, Aya Brown Kav1, Itzik Mizrahi1, Shai Pilosof1
1Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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14:30 > 16:30 S13 14:30 > 16:30 One Health: why Biodiversity is important? Room 03
Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium (Name, institution, email):
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, University of Freiburg, Germany, michael.scherer@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

Co-organizers of the symposium (Names, institutions, emails):

Aletta Bonn, UFZ, University of Jena, iDiv, aletta.bonn@idiv.de
Hervé Jactel, INRAE, herve.jactel@inrae.fr
Daniela Haluza, Medical University of Vienna, daniela.haluza@meduniwien.ac.at

Session description :

The biodiversity crisis needs to be tackled in unison with the climate crisis and health crisis. The rise of One Health, Planetary Health or EcoHealth concepts also underline the close linkages between the state of ecosystems and human health, and ask for interdisciplinary approaches to tackle these global crises. Biodiversity links to health via four pathways, (i) reducing harm (e.g. provision of food, medicines, regulating climate, air and noise pollution); (ii) restoring capacities (e.g. attention restoration, stress reduction); (iii) building capacities (e.g. promoting physical activity, transcendent experiences); and (iv) causing harm (e.g. dangerous wildlife, zoonotic diseases, allergens). It is often postulated that ecosystem degradation favors both the emergence and the risk of transmission of these pathogens while restoration may contribute to a nature based health solutions. Forests, for example, are the main reservoir of terrestrial biodiversity and are currently threatened by climate change, becoming the object of much attention for the prevention of global sanitary risks. But conversely, forests also deliver ecosystem dis-services related to human health, e.g. through habitat provisioning for vectors of disease pathogens. This symposium will therefore review advances in ecological research on the functional link between biodiversity and human health risk mitigation, in the context of global change. In accordance with the One Health approach, it will adopt a multidisciplinary point of view, welcoming ecologists, physiologists, medical professionals and related disciplines.

Sponsorship
The participation of speakers will be supported by three BiodivERsA projects funded through the 2018-2019 BiodivERsA joint call for research proposals, under the BiodivERsA3 ERA-Net COFUND programme: Dr.FOREST (Diversity of FORESTs affecting human health and well-being, https://www.dr-forest.eu/), DiMoC (Diversity components in mosquito-borne diseases in face of climate change, http://www.dimoc.uni-bayreuth.de/dimoc/) and BioRodDis (Managing biodiversity in forests and urban green spaces : Dilution and amplification effects on rodent microbiomes and rodent-borne diseases, https://www.biodiversa.org/1643) and one ANR project (DiPTiCC, Diversité et Productivité des forêTs impactées par le Changement Climatique, ANR-16-CE32-0003).


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14:30 > 16:30 S14 14:30 > 16:30 Microbial communities as units of selection Room 05
Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium:

Manuel Blouin, Institut Agro, manuel.blouin@agrosupdijon.fr

· Co-organizers of the symposium:

Silvia De Monte, CNRS, MPI Evolutionary Biology, silvia.de.monte@bio.ens.psl.eu

· Session description:

Microbial communities are increasingly considered as units of selection in experiments and models. However, they differ from traditional units of selection such as individual organisms or genes since they do not exhibit the same degree of cohesion and stability, nor possess easily recognizable life cycles. Their ecological dynamics is thus key to understand their evolutionary dynamics. Experiments on natural or artificial selection of microbial communities are increasingly developed. They are guided by applied objectives, like improving the efficiency to perform a given function (e.g. to degrade a pollutant or improve plant growth), and/or by conceptual ones, such as unraveling their ecological and evolutionary dynamics, and defining their status in terms of selection unit. Some models are trying to mimic experiments and identify strategies to improve experimental protocols, others are focused on describing communities as complex systems. What makes microbial communities legitimate units of selection is a key conceptual question that started to be addressed in a small number of recent papers, with a diversity of perspectives, which reveals a cogent need to discuss the advantages and drawbacks of different modeling and experimental approaches.
The objectives of this symposium are to:
- communicate to the international community of ecology and evolution on this emerging field of research
- strengthen the links between ecology and evolution by gathering people from these disciplines and at their interface
- develop a common culture, encompassing theoretical and applied approaches, to promote the dialogue between experiments and models


· Speakers
15 minutes presentation and 5 minutes discussion for each talk. All the speakers confirmed their interest and presence in the colloquium.
Talk 1. BLOUIN Manuel, Institut Agro (manuel.blouin@agrosupdijon.fr ), Artificial selection of microbial communities: when experiments provide theoretical knowledge.
Talk 2. DOULCIER Guilhem, Macquarie University, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (guilhem.doulcier@normalesup.org ), Theoretical and statistical methods for the experimental selection of collectives.
Talk 3. SHOU Wenying, University College of London (w.shou@ucl.ac.uk), Optimizing the protocol of microbial community artificial selection thanks to models.
Talk 4. DE MONTE Silvia, CNRS, Max Plank Institute Evolutionary Biology (silvia.de.monte@bio.ens.psl.eu), Modelling the feedbacks between community selection and community ecology.
Talk 5. COLLET Pierre, University of Strasbourg (Pierre.Collet@unistra.fr ), Evolutionary algorithms.

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14:30 > 16:30 S15 14:30 > 16:30 Bridging the Gap - Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Environmental Education (EE) Room 06
Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium:
Bogner Franz, University of Bayreuth, franz.bogner@uni-bayreuth.de (GfÖ-SiG leader of the EE strand)

Session description

Since generations thousands of teachers of conventional classrooms and educators of informal outreach facilities invested tremendous efforts into educational initiatives to improve environmental attitudes and behaviours of students. When analysing adolescent conceptions in relation to Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), responses overlap while statements concerning social and economy contexts contribute to substantial differences in EE and ESD. Under both umbrellas, outreach experience allows kids and adolescents to value nature and environment – and after frequent experience to understand the science behind ecosystems and related dilemmas which we face currently and which we need to cope with in the future. While cognitive issues are likewise conventionally to be monitored, variables such as attitudes and values or even behaviour are not. That is why, from the 1970ies to the 1990ies there were many measurement approaches applied, seemingly with more instruments than researchers were working in the field. Most instruments were developed for adult populations that is why the development of the 2-MEV scale (2 Major Environmental Values) for the age-group of adolescents began and on the basis on a solid theoretical foundation defined to measure on the basis of primary factors two higher order factors labelled as values: Preservation (PRE) and Utilization (UTL). The 2-MEV model received a quite new promotion when further independent research teams also repeatedly confirmed the two factor second order structure. Its increasingly worldwide use allows comparing and fine-tuning programmes of different backgrounds. Up to now several dozen studies were using the scale: Some providers are already satisfied that the measurement basis does not need further defence and numbers are secured. Others present the results on conferences and even invest the effort to publish. The educational efforts must go on to extract essentials out of thousands of programmes applied in the world.

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14:30 > 16:30 S16 14:30 > 16:30 Macroecology: lessons from the past, forecasting the future Room 09 + 10
Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium (Name, institution, email):
DENELLE Pierre, pierre.denelle@uni-goettingen.de, Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, Georg-August University of Göttingen
Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

Co-organizers of the symposium (Names, institutions, emails):
WEIGELT Patrick, pweigel@uni-goettingen.de, Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, Georg-August University of Göttingen
Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany


Macroecology assesses large-scale, multi-species ecological patterns and the processes driving them. How species distributions and diversity change through time is one of the major questions of this subfield of Ecology. Recent works highlighted how past environmental conditions influenced the current distribution of species through several mechanisms, including shifts of species’ ranges and varying rates of speciation and extinction through time. In parallel to these past influences, several ongoing environmental changes are currently at play. Global warming is heavily acting on species’ ranges while a massive spread of alien species is altering the diversity in a multi-dimensional way. These major trends are expected to influence all facets of biodiversity, from taxonomic to functional and phylogenetic patterns.
This symposium focuses on notable advances in linking macroecological patterns to changes over time. We specifically aim at synthesizing how past and ongoing changes in environmental conditions are affecting patterns of diversity across taxa and scales by addressing the following questions. What were the main environmental drivers affecting macroevolutionary rates in the past? How were and will species track their suitable conditions and how is it changing their distributions? How are exotic species spreading and changing biodiversity across the globe and how are global changes altering taxonomic and functional biomes?

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Ecological interactions 14:30 > 16:30 R32 14:30 > 16:30 Ecological interactions (1/3) Verlaine A
  • Chair : K. Karen MCCOY (CNRS)
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14:30 > 16:30 S11 14:30 > 16:30 Ecology for Future Cities Verlaine B
Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium:

Monika Egerer, Technical University of Munich, Germany, monika.egerer@tum.de
Joan Casanelles Abella, WSL, Switzerland, joan.casanelles@wsl.ch

Session description:

How will future cities enable urban nature to thrive, mitigate climate change, and maintain ecosystem functions, upon which the livability of the world’s cities depends? What can urban ecology and evolution as a science, practice and participatory tool offer to the function and livability of future cities? Cities are faced with fundamental challenges including climate change, urban sprawl and densification and invasion with detrimental impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem functions and nature contributions to people. The city of the future describes a vision of urban environments that enhance the quality of life, while also protecting biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem functioning. Urban ecology has in recent decades vastly improved our mechanistic understanding of urban environments, offering theoretical insights to science while also delivering practical tools to urban planners and policy makers. In this session, we bring together research in urban ecology and evolution that is contributing to our fundamental understanding of urban ecosystems and landscapes to inform their management and design for more biodiverse and environmentally just cities in the future.

The goals of this forward-thinking symposium are to: 1) provide a mechanistic understanding and predictability of urban biodiversity and ecological and evolutionary processes under different global change scenarios, including socio-ecological drivers, trait-based approaches, and evolutionary tools; 2) illuminate drivers of biodiversity, ecosystem functions, natures contribution to people, but also, importantly, of environmental justice in current and future cities; and 3) identify solution-oriented ecologically- and evolutionary-informed urban management and planning geared to preserve biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and natures contribution to people.

The symposium will be affiliated with the GfÖ-Specialist Group “Urban Ecology” and thus with Group events as well as many opportunities for exchange.

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16:30 > 17:00 CB4 16:30 > 17:00 Coffee break Halls 1 & 2
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17:00 > 18:00 PS1 17:00 > 18:00 Poster session 1 Hall 1
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17:00 > 18:00 SE3 17:00 > 18:00 Workshop following the symposium “Microbial communities as units of selection: establishing a dialogue between models and experiments” Room 05
Main organizers:

Silvia De Monte, CNRS, MPI Evolutionary Biology, silvia.de.monte@bio.ens.psl.eu
Manuel Blouin, Institut Agro, manuel.blouin@agrosupdijon.fr

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17:00 > 19:00 SE1 17:00 > 19:00 GfÖ Awards and General Assembly Auditorium
- 17:00 - 17:30: GfÖ Awards (open to all conference participants)
o Tobias Sandner, Uni Marburg (Germany), Winner of the GfÖ Award 2022
=> Awardee talk entitled: "Aspects of life in small populations: inbreeding, environmental stress and phenotypic plasticity"

Abstract

Plants growing in small populations face several challenges. When environmental conditions change, plants have to adapt or respond plastically. Moreover, they can only choose their mates from the small pool available, so inbreeding is more frequent than in large populations. When pollinators are declining or not attracted by the few plants of a rare species, plants may even have to completely rely on selfing for reproductive assurance. As a consequence, inbreeding reduces offspring fitness (“inbreeding depression”) and can influence plant functional and reproductive traits. However, environmental change and inbreeding depression usually are not independent, and it is often assumed that inbreeding depression generally increases under stressful conditions. In my research I am taking these aspects of small populations into the greenhouse or common garden to study the effects of inbreeding and environmental stress on various aspects of plant life under controlled conditions. I will present evidence from different plant species to show which types of stress do or do not increase inbreeding depression, and I will explain effects of inbreeding on phenotypic plasticity, and modifying effects of plant size on inbreeding-stress interactions. Finally I will bring these findings back to natural populations and discuss the effects of inbreeding on the success of ex situ plant conservation.

o Julia Ostermann, Uni Halle (Germany), Winner of the Host-Wiehe Award
o Ariel Firebaugh, University of Virginia (USA), Winner of the most-cited research paper in Basic & Applied Ecology Award
o Bea Maas, University of Vienna (Austria) Winner of the most-cited review paper in Basic & Applied Ecology Award

- 17:30-19:00 General assembly (GfÖ members only)

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17:30 > 18:30 SE2 17:30 > 18:30 Meeting of CNU 67 (French National Commission for Universities: section 67 "Biologie des populations & Ecologie") Verlaine A
Changing our relation to publishing in the light of the San Francisco declaration on research assessment

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA, https://sfdora.org/about-dora/), which has been signed by quite a few French, German, Swiss and Austrian research organizations since its development 10 years ago, has highlighted ways to improve the process of research assessment. Among all the recommendations featured in DORA, a serious emphasis was given on the publication process, particularly "the need to assess research on its own merits rather than on the basis of the journal in which the research is published" and "the need to capitalize on the opportunities provided by online publication". In the meantime, academia has had to face the rise of predatory publishing, i.e. online journals charging onerous article-processing charges (APC) for very quick and dirty reviewing and easy publication.
The purpose of this discussion, spurred by the work of the 67th section of the CNU (French National University Council, in charge of many assessments regarding professors and lecturers), is to collectively exchange on a few topics linked to publication and research assessment:
* the issue of predatory publishing and its interaction with research assessment;
* acknowledging preprints in research assessment;
* the various new means of publishing and their pros and cons;
* how to improve academia through better research assessment and better publishing practices;
* behaviour of researchers as authors vs. researchers as evaluators: can we cure our collective schizophrenia?

Discussion/debate in English

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17:30 > 19:00 SE9 17:30 > 19:00 Atelier SFE2 sur l’éthique des financements Room 06
Le groupe « Agir face à la crise écologique » invite toutes les personnes intéressées à venir échanger et travailler en atelier sur l’éthique des financements privés de la recherche en écologie autour de deux questions : Avec qui peut-on choisir de collaborer ? Comment travailler avec un partenaire privé une fois un financement accepté ?
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18:00 > 19:00 SE8 18:00 > 19:00 Mixer Theoritical ecologists from GfÖ-SFE² Room 07
Main organizer: Sonia Kéfi & Emanuel Fronhofer
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18:00 > 19:00 SE5 18:00 > 19:00 Human ecology: "Experimenting introspective Ecology" (in french) Room 13
Introspective ecology:

Environmental issues lead us to a collective challenge but also to personal experiences and behaviours.

This workshop proposes to explore our thought patterns, our beliefs, our emotions and even our existential questions raised by the ecological crisis as a possible step towards a readjustment dissolving our internal inconsistencies or discomforts.

Ecologie introspective:

Les problèmes environnementaux nous amènent à un défi collectif mais également à des vécus et comportements personnels.

Cet atelier propose d’aller explorer nos schémas de pensées, nos croyances, nos émotions voire nos questions existentielles suscitées par la crise écologique et ce, comme une possible étape vers un réajustement dissolvant nos incohérences ou malaises internes.

Main organizer: Claire Damesin

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18:00 > 19:00 SE4_1 18:00 > 19:00 Art & Ecology (videos)_1 Verlaine B
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19:30 > 22:30 GD 19:30 > 22:30 Gala Dinner Halls 1 & 2
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Thursday, 24 November 2022
08:30 > 08:45 W&I 08:30 > 08:45 Welcome & informations Auditorium
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08:45 > 09:30 P5 08:45 > 09:30 A toxic cocktail? The response of ecosystems to chemicals Auditorium
In the Anthropocene, most if not all ecosystems are influenced by multiple stressors including several thousands of toxic chemicals. The quantification of this chemical multiverse remains challenging, which may explain why many studies have focussed on a few “hype” chemicals or simply ignored the issue of chemicals in ecosystems. Interactions between chemicals and between chemicals and non-chemical stressors further complicate prediction of the response of populations, communities and food webs in ecosystems to the cocktail of chemicals. This in turn hampers the evaluation of the role of chemicals as global change drivers and thereby environmental management and conservation. I provide an overview on our current knowledge on the distribution, risks and effects of chemicals and their mixtures in ecosystems. Methods and their pitfalls when aiming to consider the potential effects of chemicals in ecosystems will be discussed. I argue that chemicals represent a systemic problem that can not be captured through a single substance lense and outline how a stronger integration of ecology and ecotoxicology would improve our understanding and capacity for prediction. In this context, I also reflect on how recent advances building on breakthroughs in biomolecular and computational approaches may be useful for ecological studies on non-chemical stressors. The talk ends with a discussion of management solutions to reduce chemical pollution at different scales.
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09:30 > 10:00 CB5 09:30 > 10:00 Coffee break Halls 1 & 2
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09:30 > 10:00 M3 09:30 > 10:00 Free discussion with Ralf Schäfer (Plenary 3) Room 13
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Agroecology/ecology of agroecosystems 10:00 > 12:00 R35 10:00 > 12:00 Agro-Ecology (4/4) Auditorium
  • Chair : L. Léa BEAUMELLE (INRAE / CNRS)
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Biological invasions 10:00 > 12:00 R42 10:00 > 12:00 Biological invasions Room : 11 + 12
  • Chair : P. Patricia GIBERT (CNRS)
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Evolution approaches for understanding ecological features 10:00 > 12:00 R38 10:00 > 12:00 Evolution approaches for understanding ecological features (2/3) Room 01
  • Chair : S. Sebastian DIEHL (UMEA UNIVERSITY)
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10:00 > 12:00 S17 10:00 > 12:00 Advanced facilities for the ecological research: the European Research Infrastructures (organized by LifeWatch ERIC) Room 02
Main organizer of the symposium: Alberto Basset, University of Salento & LifeWatch ERIC, alberto.basset@unisalento.it

Co-organizers of the symposium: Christos Arvanitidis, LifeWatch ERIC, ceo@lifewatch.eu; Juan Miguel González-Aranda, LifeWatch ERIC, cto@lifewatch.eu; Peter van Tienderen, University of Amsterdam & LifeWatch ERIC, P.H.vanTienderen@uva.nl and Dario Papale, University of Tuscia & ICOS ETC, darpap@unitus.it

Session description: The European Commission is strongly promoting the establishment and operation of European Research Infrastructures (ERIs), funded by the Member States, as key components of the scientific research landscape supporting the global competitiveness of European research communities. ERIs are aimed at offering high quality data and advanced facilities to European scientists, with particular attention towards early career researchers, promoting innovation, technology transfer to industries, and citizen engagement in science.

In the area of Ecology, some ERIs have been already established as European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERIC), and are currently operational, whilst others are in the process of becoming so. Globally, the landscape of European Research Infrastructures offers monitoring sites and facilities covering all types of environmental domains, i.e., terrestrial, freshwater, transitional and marine waters and key research areas, such as those dealing with biodiversity organization, conservation and recovery, with ecosystem processes and carbon, water and energy fluxes or with agroecosystems.

Here, we propose an expert panel discussion, with leading scientists from LifeWatch ERIC, the European e-Science Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, the ecosystem component of ICOS ERIC, the Integrated Carbon Observation System, eLTER RI, the Long Term Ecological Research site network, DiSSCo, the Distributed System of Scientific Collections, Danubius-RI, the International Centre on Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems, and from the marine Research Infrastructures EMBRC ERIC, EMSO ERIC and Jerico-RI, presenting the key integrated research facilities these infrastructures offer to the EEF ecological research community of practice, running developments, opportunities for engagement and the possibilities to propose new measurements and services to be implemented in the ERIs.



· Chairperson: Andreas Petzold, Juelich Research Centre a.petzold@fz-juelich.de

Panelists Names, affiliations, emails, and Research Infrastructure

1. Mirtl Michael, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; michael.mirtl@ufz.de
2. Quaranta Gabriella; EMSO ERIC - gabriella.quaranta@emso-eu.org
3. Delauney Laurent, Ifremer; Jerico-RI - laurent.delauney@ifremer.fr
4. Stanica Adrian, National Institute for Research and Development of Marine Geology and Geoecology (GeoEcomar); Danubius-RI - astanica@geoecomar.ro
5. Raes Niels, Naturalis Biodiversity Center; DiSSCo - niels.raes@naturalis.nl
6. Papale Dario, La Tuscia University; ICOS ERIC - darpap@unitus.it
7. Basset Alberto, University of Salento; LifeWatch ERIC - alberto.basset@unisalento.it and Arvanitidis Christos, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR); LifeWatch ERIC - ceo@lifewatch.eu
8. Hendriks Rob J.J., Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality; Biodiversa+ - r.j.j.hendriks@minlnv.nl

  • Chair : A. Andreas PETZOLD (IAGOS-ERI, )
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Trait-based approaches: from microbes to plants and animals 10:00 > 12:00 R39 10:00 > 12:00 Trait-based approaches: from microbes to plants and animals (1/2) Room 03
  • Chair : M. Miriam BECK (LOV - SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ)
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10:00 > 12:00 S18 10:00 > 12:00 Think big: agent-based modelling meets data science Room 05
Volker Grimm, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, volker.grimm@ufz.de

Uta Berger, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, uta.berger@tu-dresden.de

Session description
Ecological phenomena result from the behavior of their constituent agents and their interaction with their biotic and abiotic environment. Agent-based modeling aims to capture these processes and is thus an important complement to more aggregate or statistical modeling approaches. However, the amount of data required to parameterize and test agent-based models (ABMs) often limits them to small areas or specific species and systems. Advances in monitoring (e.g., genetic markers, motion tracking, remote sensing), powerful workflows including machine learning methods to exploit large data sets, and the increasing availability of high-performance computing systems have now enabled agent-based modeling to "go big," i.e., cover large regions and target more general applications and theories. In addition, advances in transferability, scaling, and first-principles theory development through ABM are enabling a mechanistic explanation of the processes behind patterns detected by statistical tools in large data sets. So-called "digital twins" for biodiversity, as envisioned in a recent European Commission funding initiative, appear to be becoming possible: They would allow us to continuously incorporate new data to reduce uncertainty in models and use them for new regions, making them a tool for scenario assessment and policy development. This symposium reviews advances in monitoring, data science, and agent-based modeling, and presents a vision of "big" ABMs that can take ecological application and theory to a new level.

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Restoration ecology and ecosystem dynamics 10:00 > 12:00 R40 10:00 > 12:00 Restoration ecology and ecosystem dynamics Room 06
  • Chair : A. Armin BISCHOFF (AVIGNON UNIVERSITY, IMBE)
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Biogeography 10:00 > 12:00 R41 10:00 > 12:00 Biogeography (1/2) Room 09 + 10
  • Chair : M. Maria Laura TOLMOS (UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN)
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Ecological interactions 10:00 > 12:00 R36 10:00 > 12:00 Ecological interactions (2/3) Verlaine A
  • Chair : E. Elisabeth Maria GROSS (UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE)
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Nature and society 10:00 > 12:00 R37 10:00 > 12:00 Nature and society (1/2) Verlaine B
  • Chair : S. Sebastian FIEDLER (UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN)
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12:00 > 13:45 L3 12:00 > 13:45 Lunch Halls 1 & 2
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12:30 > 13:30 W13 12:30 > 13:30 Improving PhD supervision Room : 11 + 12
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12:30 > 13:30 W14 12:30 > 13:30 How to get published Room 02
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13:45 > 15:45 S12 13:45 > 15:45 The long-term trajectories of the socio-ecosystems: past dynamics and modern legacies Auditorium
Main organizer of the symposium Vincent Robin, LIEC-CNRS-Université de Lorraine, vincent.robin@univ-lorraine.fr

Co-organizers of the symposium : Oliver Nelle, State Office for Cultural Heritage Baden-Wuerttemberg, Tree-ring Laboratory, oliver.nelle@rps.bwl.de

· Session description
The state of the socio-ecosystems is a key challenge today. The sustainability of natural resources is of first importance and priority for the sustainability of human societies. Over time, the ecological systems have moved from climate/natural driven states to human driven states. This considerable change has been triggered mainly by the growing use of natural resources by humans, including land use and resources use. This has reached a critical level in the Anthropocene, which is facing its sixth extinction crisis. Looking at the origin and long-term dynamics of the socio-ecosystem trajectories might provide significant insights that would be useful in addressing the challenges of future of human societies, the environment, and the sustainability of the ecosystem services. Indeed, it appears to be relevant to look at the trajectory of the relationship between the human use of natural resources, according to the socio-cultural development and the state of the ecosystems that support the natural resources.
Dealing with such a long-term scale retrospective, we propose in this symposium to share and discuss research results, and insights, about the assessment of past human use of natural resources and their consequences for socio-ecosystems. We especially welcome contributions that concern the assessment of ecosystem resistance/resilience that are related to human disturbances, identification of state of references, and or legacies on the on-going trajectories. Moreover, innovative and interdisciplinary contributions are highly welcome, as well as more standard researches providing new data/insights.

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Biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem ecology in a changing world 13:45 > 15:45 R48 13:45 > 15:45 Biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem ecology in a changing world Room : 11 + 12
  • Chair : G. Gérard LACROIX (CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE)
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Evolution approaches for understanding ecological features 13:45 > 15:45 R45 13:45 > 15:45 Evolution approaches for understanding ecological features (3/3) Room 01
  • Chair : A. Andreas PRINZING (UNIV. RENNES 1)
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13:45 > 15:45 S20 13:45 > 15:45 Rainforest transformation into agricultural lands: current and future challenges Room 02
Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium:
Sebastian Fiedler, University of Göttingen (sebastian.fiedler@uni-goettingen.de)

Co-organizers of the symposium (Names, institutions, emails):
Arne Wenzel, University of Göttingen (awenzel@uni-goettingen.de)
Gustavo B. Paterno, University of Göttingen (gustavo.paterno@uni-goettingen.de)
Kerstin Wiegand, University of Göttingen (Kerstin.Wiegand@mail.uni-goettingen.de)

Session description:
Tropical rainforest loss is mainly driven by the transformation of forests into agricultural lands. This transformation is threatening biodiversity and associated services, as well as jeopardizing vital regulatory ecosystem functions. Ultimately it may endanger whole ecosystem integrity. As such, developing more sustainable strategies to alleviate the negative impacts of rainforest transformation, while reconciling agricultural production and ecosystem functioning is a pressing challenge for past, present, and future ecological research. In this symposium we want to address these challenges. Our overall motivation is to learn and be inspired by each other so that we might synthesize ideas for new projects and think about how to address future challenges.
Specifically, with this symposium we aim (i) to showcase recent advances in ecological research on consequences and sustainable alternatives of rainforest transformation and (ii) to highlight research challenges and future perspectives on rainforest transformation. The symposium will bring together an international research community that has tackled this topic in different locations and with varying perspectives. Talks will range from presenting new methods on how to assess biodiversity at the landscape scale, results from field experiments in tropical regions, and large-scale biodiversity surveys. In addition, two review talks summarizing current knowledge on rainforest transformation and sustainable alternatives for tropical forest conservation will be followed by a moderated discussion panel between all speakers.

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Trait-based approaches: from microbes to plants and animals 13:45 > 15:45 R46 13:45 > 15:45 Trait-based approaches: from microbes to plants and animals (2/2) Room 03
  • Chair : A. Aurélie CÉBRON (CNRS, UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE)
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13:45 > 15:45 S21 13:45 > 15:45 Biodiversity and ecosystem services in European vineyards Room 05

Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium (Name, institution, email):
Armin Bischoff, IMBE Avignon University, CNRS, IRD, Aix-Marseille University, armin.bischoff@univ-avignon.fr


Session description : Vineyards belong to the most intensively used agroecosystems in Europe. Insecticide and fungicide treatments are common, often accompanied by weed control using glyphosate. In particular, regular inter-row tillage has resulted in a loss of plant and related arthropod diversity. Recent approaches to restore vineyard biodiversity have shown that environmentally sound management may not only increase species richness but also provide ecosystem services such as improved regulation of pests, increased pollination, improvement of soil structure and reduction of soil erosion. In the present symposium, the relationship between vineyard management, biological diversity and ecosystem functions or services will be analysed and discussed in seven talks from four different European countries. The session keynote speaker Silvia Winter from BOKU Vienna presents an overview on trade-offs and synergies of biodiversity, ecosystem service provision and grapevine production. The two following talks by Adrien Rusch and Verena Rösch will analyse biodiversity at landscape scale in France and in Germany focusing on semi-natural habitats within and outside vineyards. They are followed by four presentations highlighting the importance of inter-row vegetation for vineyard biodiversity and related ecosystem services. The talks by Karsten Mody and Lea Schubert/Daniel Elias will show approaches to sow and establish species-rich inter-row vegetation and its effects on arthropod communities in two different German regions. Tamas Miglecz presents an evaluation of different Hungarian approaches to establish cover crops in vineyards and apple orchards. And the final talk by Leo Rocher and Emile Melloul will demonstrate interactions between spontaneous inter-row vegetation and predatory arthropods involved in biological control of pest insects. The presentation takes into account consequences of increased irrigation to compensate for water competition and for climate change induced drought. The work of the last three talks is part of the EU funded international Life project VineAdapt that also contributes to symposium funding.

· Speakers (Names, affiliations, emails, and tentative talk titles). Only speakers who have been contacted by the organizer(s), and have committed to the session should be listed.
WINTER, Silvia, BOKU Vienna, Austria (session keynote, 30 min): Sustainable vineyard vegetation management - balancing trade-offs and synergies of biodiversity and ecosystem service provision
RUSCH, Adrien, INRAE, Bordeaux, France (15 min): Combining in-field and off-field management options to benefit biodiversity and ecosystem services in vineyard landscapes
RÖSCH, Verena, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany (15 min): Effects of semi-natural habitat cover on breeding bird diversity and abundance in vineyard landscapes
MODY, Karsten, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Germany (15 min): Species-rich inter-row vegetation in vineyards: establishment, management and effects on arthropod abundance and diversity
SCHUBERT, Lea, ELIAS, Daniel, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg, Germany (15 min): Effects of wildflower sowing on plant and insect diversity in Eastern German vineyards
MOGLECZ, Tamás, ÖMKi - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Budapest, Hungary (15 min): Evaluation of ecosystem services in Hungarian cover crop projects
ROCHER, Leo, MELLOL, Emile, IMBE University of Avignon, CNRS, IRD, Aix-Marseille University, Avignon, France (15 min): Effects of vineyard inter-row vegetation and irrigation on arthropod predators in Southern France

· Sponsorship: The travel costs of the keynote speaker will be funded by the EU Life project VineAdapt (up to a limit of 500 Euros).

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13:45 > 15:45 S22 13:45 > 15:45 GBIF4Ecology - the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Room 06
Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium (Name, institution, email):
Birgit Gemeinholzer, University Kassel, b.gemeinholzer@uni-kassel.de

Co-organizers of the symposium (Names, institutions, emails):
Dagmar Triebel, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, triebel@snsb.de

Session description:
GBIF - the Global Biodiversity Information Facility - is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing open access to data about all types of life on Earth. It is coordinated by its Secretariat in Copenhagen and is working through 104 participant nodes, mainly the National Nodes of the GBIF member countries. The data backbone is diverse and set up by a growing community of more than 1,800 organisations providing free and open access to primary information about “where” and “when” species have been recorded.

Germany and France are among the top four countries delivering datasets and among the top eight regarding georeferenced single data records. Altogether GBIF is publishing more than 2.2 billion species occurrence records. GBIF-mediated data are used and cited in more than 6,900 peer-reviewed articles. Data, scripts, software as well as web tools and portals using the GBIF data landscape and standards are continually being developed. Biological research is supported by GBIF training courses and outreach activities worldwide.

The GBIF4Ecology symposium will introduce the unique data network as source, its variety of stakeholders, from citizen scientists to policy makers, and emphasis on its growing impact for data-driven research in ecology. GBIF standards, data and web tools are being integrated into a worldwide infrastructure given new options to integrate further types of biodiversity data like bio-logging data and eDNA data and interlink non-biological data. Ecological studies with various objectives use GBIF quality data. This session gives the background behind the GBIF landscape of data, standards and tools. It is highlighting the great potential of GBIF-mediated data and services on the long-run and for future (re-)use.

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Biogeography 13:45 > 15:45 R47 13:45 > 15:45 Biogeography (2/2) Room 09 + 10
  • Chair : D. Daniel MONTESINOS (James Cook University)
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Ecological interactions 13:45 > 15:45 R43 13:45 > 15:45 Ecological interactions (3/3) Verlaine A
  • Chair : T. Théo MARCHAND (UNIVERSITÉ TOULOUSE - PAUL SABATIER)
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Nature and society 13:45 > 15:45 R44 13:45 > 15:45 Nature and society (2/2) Verlaine B
  • Chair : M. Martin LAVIALE (UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE)
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15:45 > 16:15 CB6 15:45 > 16:15 Coffee break Halls 1 & 2
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16:15 > 17:15 PS2 16:15 > 17:15 Poster session 2 Hall 1
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16:15 > 17:15 SE4_2 16:15 > 17:15 Art & Ecology (videos)_2 Verlaine B
Or l’oiseau (25’): more details here

Prolivariation (9’): more details here

Dendromite (10'): more details here

Main organizer: Joanne Clavel

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17:15 > 17:55 P6 17:15 > 17:55 EEF awardee lecture: Biodiversity dynamics under past, present and future global change – insights from macroecology and implications for biosphere stewardship Auditorium

Earth’s wonderful diversity of life is under strong, increasing pressures from human-induced global change, and it is a massive challenge how to avoid catastrophic biodiversity losses, while meeting the rising needs for sustainable development. Through large-scale and long-term perspectives, macroecology offer important insights on biodiversity dynamics under global change and what is required to achieve sustainable biosphere stewardship in the long-term on a human-dominated planet. The last few millions years have experienced extraordinary instability in climate and the rise of humans as a global ecological force. Hence, there is much to learn from biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics through this period for conservation, restoration and sustainable development in a future characterized by a rising human population and human-driven climate change. The strong climate shifts drove massive ecosystem reorganization, with dispersal and extinction playing major roles. Importantly, strong shifts to novel climates caused massive biodiversity losses, with enduring legacies. Further, there is a globally consistent pattern of strong biodiversity and ecosystem changes in the wake of the global spread of modern humans, Homo sapiens. Losses of large vertebrates are typical, and the associated trophic downgrading had profound ecological effects on a global scale. For the last 10,000 years increasing land transformation through agriculture have exacerbated these impacts. Looking ahead, we can forecast further intensifying impacts from direct human activities and human-driven climate change, with strong potential to lead to massive biodiversity losses with long-lasting consequences. Achieving a positive future for biodiversity requires intensified, integrative efforts to solve the climate and biodiversity crises alongside sustainable, democratic development. We need to strengthen conservation efforts, with major foci on safeguarding biodiversity hotspots and intact ecosystems with special attention to areas buffered against future climate stress – alongside the massive efforts needed to limit global warming as much as possible. Simultaneously, there is strong need, but also high potential for widespread ecosystem restoration through rewilding (restoration to restore self-managing complex ecosystems) to enhance the biodiversity capacity and resilience of natural areas. An emerging important point is that global change is increasingly forcing the rise of novel ecosystems, where alien species inevitably play increasing roles. While their effects can be negative, they also sometimes have positive contributions for biodiversity that need greater consideration. Proactive approaches such as species translocations will be needed to overcome negative effects and enhance adaptive responses to climate change. These efforts to secure biodiversity have major potential for sustainable development, contributing important co-benefits for climate mitigation and adaptation, livelihoods and livability.

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17:55 > 18:15 CC 17:55 > 18:15 Closing ceremony Auditorium
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18:15 > 19:15 HH 18:15 > 19:15 Happy Hour Hall 1
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Friday, 25 November 2022
08:00 > 14:00 EX7 08:00 > 14:00 Excursion 7 (half day) => The Art Nouveau in Nancy The Art Nouveau in Nancy
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08:00 > 14:00 EX9 08:00 > 14:00 Excursion 9 (half day) => From the Récollets to the Pompidou From the Récollets to the Pompidou
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08:00 > 14:00 EX8 08:00 > 14:00 Excursion 8 (half day) => Guided tour in Metz city Guided tour in Metz city
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08:00 > 14:00 EX6 08:00 > 14:00 Excursion 6 (half day) => Nancy historical center Nancy historical center
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08:00 > 18:00 EX3 08:00 > 18:00 Excursion 3 (full day) => Cultural and socio-ecological heritages Cultural and socio-ecological heritages
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08:00 > 18:00 EX2 08:00 > 18:00 Excursion 2 (full day) => Les Vosges du Nord Les Vosges du Nord
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08:00 > 18:00 EX5 08:00 > 18:00 Excursion 5 (full day) => Metz surroundings Metz surroundings
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08:00 > 18:00 EX4 08:00 > 18:00 Excursion 4 (full day) => Natural and semi-naturals wetlands in Lorraine Natural and semi-naturals wetlands in Lorraine
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