Host: Marten Winter (sDiv)

Andrew Liebhold, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Science, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic)

Title: "Plant invasions drive insect invasions"

Host: Gavin Schwarz (BioCon)

Amir Lewin, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Bokker (Israel)

Title: "Reframing drylands and deserts: a call for better classification and conservation"

Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetona, Postdoctoral Researcher in the research team Biodiversity dynamics and macro-ecology at Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)

Title: "Global extrapolation drastically increases estimated economic costs of biological invasions"

Host: Abubakar Bello (iDiv Flexpool, UL)

Jay Edneil Olivar, Postdoctoral Researcher at iDiV and Leipzig University for the Flexpool project BioSpec, Leipzig (Germany)

Title: "Biological species delimitation revisited using the high Andean tree genus Polylepis (Rosaceae) as a model"

Elina Takola, Postdoctoral Researcher & group leader of the group BIOECOS in the Department of Computational Landscape Ecology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig (Germany)

Title: "The relationship of biodiversity and food provisioning across scales"

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Host: Paola Barajas (BioSyn)

María Ángela Echeverry-Galvis, Associate Professor at the Department of Ecology and Territory, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá (Colombia)

Orlando Acevedo-Charry, PhD Candidate at School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA)

Title: tba