Thursday at 1 pm!

Host: Christian Ristok (EIE)

Helmut Hillebrand, Professor for Plankton Ecology and Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven (Germany)

Title: "Biotic interactions, metacommunities and ecosystem functioning at the land-sea interface Or: How I learned to embrace unexplained variances"

Join this special panel discussion, jointly hosted by iDiv, the University of Leipzig, and CAPAZ, focusing on the intersection of science and indigenous knowledge and Article 8(J) for biodiversity protection following COP16.

Real-time translation: English-Spanish

Register here: forms.gle/rDCbBTcns9WTc9et5

Host: European Topic Centre Biodiversity and Ecosystems (ETC BE)

Thorjørn Larssen, Deputy Managing Director of The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Oslo (Norway) - Introduction

Piero Visconti, Research Group Leader and Principal Research Scholar at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg (Austria)

Title: "Approaches to identify terrestrial priority areas for achieving the 30% and 10% protection target in the EU"

Henrique Pereira, Professor at iDiv & MLU and Head of the Biodiversity Conservation research group, Leipzig (Germany)

Title: "State of Nature: taking the pulse of biodiversity in Europe"

Samuli Korpinen, Research manager at Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki (Finland)

Title: "Status and trends of the marine environment"

Jeanette Völker, Head of unit II 2.4 Inland Waters at German Environment Agency, Dessau (Germany)

Title: "Status and trends of the freshwater environment"

Host: PLAN-B and AquaPLAN projects

Mike Wood, Professor for Applied Ecology in the School of Environmental Science and Director of the Environmental Research & Innovation Centre (ERIC) at the University of Salford, Manchester (UK)

Elena Maggi, Associate Professor of Ecology at the Department of Biology at the University of Pisa and coordinator of the EU Horizon Europe-funded AquaPLAN project, Pisa (Italy)

- Prof Mike Wood and Prof Elena Maggi will give a brief overview of two ongoing research programmes funded by Horizon Europe and UKRI on the effects of light and noise pollution on biodiversity.

Host: MyDiv

Johanna Pausch, Professor for Agroecology and Director of Bayreuth Center for Stable Isotope Research in Ecology and Biogeochemistry (BayCenSI) at University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth (Germany)

Title: "Contribution of mycorrhizal fungal necromass to soil organic matter fractions"

Marion Schrumpf, Leader of the research group Soil Biogeochemistry at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC) and iDiv Member, Jena (Germany)

Title: "How the interplay of soil mineral, plant and microbial composition drives the formation and stability of mineral-associated organic matter in temperate soils"

Host: Stephanie Jurburg, UFZ

Leonardo Oña, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Ecology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück (Germany)

Title: "Microbial Cross-Feeding: Evolutionary Drivers and Ecological Dynamics "