bioDISCOVERY News, Publications and Events

Conference: Web of Life 2012 (Amphitheatre du CNRS, Montpellier, from Jun 05, 2012 09:00 AM to Jun 05, 2012 05:00 PM)

The conference "Web of Life 2012 - in a changing world" aims to synthesise existing approaches of ecological complexity in the context of global changes, focusing on species interactions, and species responses in a network context. A number of scientists of the DIVERSiTAS network will be contributing to this conference.

The DIVERSITAS community will be a major contributor to PuP Conference

The DIVERSITAS community will be present in a broad range of PuP sessions.

Workshop: Land for Bioenergy

Participants enjoyed stimulating discussions and fruitful exchanges at the joint bioDISCOVERY / ESSP workshop on implications of bioenergy development.

Workshop: Tipping Points in Ecological Systems (Berlin - Germany, from Mar 05, 2012 12:00 AM to Mar 07, 2012 01:00 PM)

A joint workshop by DIVERSITAS and the German Network Forum for biodiversity research (NEFO), aimed at furthering the scientific concepts behind (ecological) tipping points, and identifying ways to detect and mitigate tipping points.

Short Course: Biodiversity Modelling with GLOBIO3 (ITC, Enschede, the Netherlands, from Nov 02, 2011 09:00 AM to Nov 04, 2011 01:00 PM)

A course designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the GLOBIO3 model.

bioDISCOVERY Publication: Kattge et al., Global Change Biology, June 2011

TRY - a global database of plant traits to promote biodiversity research and Earth system sciences.

Land for Bioenergy (Leiden - The Netherlands, from Nov 14, 2011 12:00 AM to Nov 17, 2011 12:00 AM)

A joint bioDISCOVERY-DIVERSITAS and ESSP workshop, investigating the ecological, economical and societal costs and benefits of land conversion for biofuel production.

bioDISCOVERY Novel Model Workshop

Participants enjoyed stimulating discussions at the bioDISCOVERY workshop in Portugal

GEO BON WG 6 Paris Workshop

The GEO BON working group 6, supported by bioDISCOVERY, met in Paris March 18-21 to review the framework for national tracking of ecosystem services.

FRB Conference "Biodiversity Scenarios" / "Scenarios de la Biodiversite"

FRB in partnership with DIVERSITAS conference: Scénarios de la Biodiversité : Quel état d’avancement ? Quels enjeux ? (Biodiversity Scenarios: Current progress and challenges)

bioDISCOVERY TRY / BBS Workshops

Workshop of the TRY and BBS initiatives successfully held

DIVERSITAS input at the Conference of the EPBRS

(European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy)

FRB conference "Biodiversity Scenarios" (Paris - France, from Mar 30, 2011 12:00 AM to Mar 31, 2011 12:00 AM)

FRB conference: Scénarios de la Biodiversité : Quel état d’avancement ? Quels enjeux ? (Biodiversity Scenarios: Current progress and challenges). Upon invitation only.

Publication: Pereira et al 2010

Pereira et al 2010: Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century. Science

Publication: Kattge et al 2010

Kattge et al 2010: A generic structure for plant trait databases. Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Novel Models Workshop (Lisbon - Portugal, from Jun 06, 2011 12:00 AM to Jun 10, 2011 12:00 AM)

Exploring the frontiers of ecological modelling. Upon invitation.

TRY/BBS workshop (Paris - France, from Mar 25, 2011 12:00 AM to Mar 29, 2011 12:00 AM)

Workshop of the TRY and BBS initiatives of bioDISCOVERY. Upon invitation.

GEO BON WG6 Meeting (Paris - France, from Mar 18, 2011 12:00 AM to Mar 21, 2011 12:00 AM)

GEO BON WG 6 (ecosystem services) meeting. Upon invitation.