Symposium: Ecology | Geomorphology | Statistics
Multidiversity in environmental successions – interdisciplinary views on the emergence of ecological complexity
March 28th – 29th 2019
University of Salzburg | NAWI | Hellbrunnerstraße 34
The current biodiversity crisis demands a detailed understanding of the mechanisms underlying the maintenance and generation of diverse ecosystems. Environmental successions provide an excellent opportunity to track the concerted and interdependent increase in plant, animal, and microbial diversity and to detect ecological processes involved in the generation of multidiversity. Natural successions often are initiated and affected by geomorphological surface processes and knowledge about them allows a precise age determination of communities. Furthermore, multidiversity datasets require state-of-the-art and innovative statistical analyses to extract meaningful results. The symposium fosters an advancement of interdisciplinary approaches towards an understanding of environmental successions and the generation of multidiversity. The symposium is a joint meeting of the Doctorate Schools  Dynamic Mountain Environments and Statistics and Applied Data Science of the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and serves as kick-off event of the START-project “Successional Generation of Functional Multidiversity” granted to Robert R. Junker by the Austrian Science Fund ( FWF). 
Keynote speakers: 
·     Gabriele Berg (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
·     Jana Eichel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT, Germany)
·     Christian Körner (University of Basel, Switzerland)
·     Sabine Kraushaar (University of Vienna)
·    Jan-Christoph Otto (University of Salzburg, Austria)
·     Ingolf Kühn (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany)
·     Wolfgang Trutschnig (University of Salzburg, Austria)  

 
 Foto: Haigermoser
Program
Thursday, March 28th
10:15 – 10:25 Opening address (Fatima Ferreira-Briza, Vice Rector of Research)
10:25 – 11:00 Welcome & Introduction by Robert R. Junker
11:05 – 12:00 Keynote by Ingolf Kühn

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch at Mensa
13:30 – 14:25 Keynote by Sabine Kraushaar and Jan-Christoph Otto
14:30 – 14:43 Victoria Ruiz
14:43 – 15:05 Junxiang Li
15:05 – 15:30 Jian Zhang
15:30 – 16:15 Group photo and coffee break
16:15 – 17:10 Keynote by Wolfgang Trutschnig
17:15 – 17:28 Stefan Dötterl
17:28 – 17:41 Yang Liu
17:41 – 17:54 Heidi Danzl
19:30              Dinner at  Goldene Kugel
Friday, March 29th
09:30 – 10:25 Keynote by Christian Körner
10:30 – 10:43 Judith Parkinson
10:43 – 11:03 Stephen Wickham
11:03 – 11:20 short break
11:20 – 12:15 Keynote by Jana Eichel
12:15 – 12:28 Ulrike Ruprecht
12:28 – 12:41 Stefan Haselberger
12:41 – 13:45 Lunch at Mensa
13:45 – 14:40 Keynote by Gabriele Berg
14:40 – 14:53 Florian Griessenberger
14:53 – 15:06 Lisa-Maria Ohler
15:10              Discussions with coffee and end of symposium
  
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