Conference Agenda

Session Overview
 
Date: Thursday, 13/June/2024
8:30am
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9:00am
Registration
Location: SynMikro entry hall
9:00am
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9:10am
Welcome
Location: SynMikro meeting room
9:10am
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10:00am
Keynote Daniele Silvestro: New (un)supervised learning models to infer the evolution and future dynamics of biodiversity
Location: SynMikro meeting room
Chair: Alexander Zizka
https://www.unifr.ch/bio/en/research/eco-evol/silvestro-group.html
10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee break
10:30am
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12:50pm
Macroecological patterns & processes
Location: SynMikro meeting room
Chair: Susanne Fritz
 
10:30am - 10:50am

Chicken or Egg? Phylogenetic sequences of ecological trait acquisition underpinning alpine biome shifts

Jurriaan M. de Vos, Bram Cladder, Freek T. Bakker, Livio Bätscher



10:50am - 11:10am

Dispersal and the generation of diversity

Sarah Sophie Weil, Michaël Nicolaï, Patrick Weigelt



11:10am - 11:30am

Myrejagten: Resource use by ants in Denmark

Julie K. Sheard, Robert R Dunn, Nathan J. Sanders, Carsten Rahbek



11:30am - 11:50am

Opportunistic plant observations reveal spatial and temporal gradients in phenology

Michael Rzanny, Patrick Mäder, Hans Christian Wittich, David Boho, Jana Wäldchen



11:50am - 12:10pm

Species-energy relationships in the climatic mosaic of warmth, moisture and ecosystem productivity

Marco Túlio Coelho, Elisa Barreto, Thiago Rangel, José Alexandre Diniz-Filho, Eliška Bohdalková, David Storch, Yun-Ting Jang, Mikael Pontarp, Fernanda Cassemiro, Pincelli Hull, Catherine Graham



12:10pm - 12:30pm

Unraveling thermal tolerance patterns: a multi-level analysis of physiological traits of arthropods along elevational gradients in Southern Asia

Christian Hof, Imran Khaliq



12:30pm - 12:50pm

Mobile Sensing of the environment: integrating automated plant identification, citizen science, and bio-indication

Susanne Tautenhahn, Michael Rzanny, Martin Jung, Patrick Mäder, Bernhard Ahrens, David Boho, Negin Katal, Hans Christian Wittich, Jana Wäldchen

12:50pm
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1:50pm
Lunch break
1:50pm
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2:40pm
Keynote Florian Hartig: AI in Macroecology & Biogeography – from prediction to inference
Location: SynMikro meeting room
Chair: Alexander Zizka
https://www.uni-regensburg.de/biologie-vorklinische-medizin/theoretische-oekologie/mitarbeiter/hartig/
2:40pm
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3:40pm
AI in Macroecology & Biogeography
Location: SynMikro meeting room
Chair: Jan Hackel
 
2:40pm - 3:00pm

Deep Species Distribution Models (Deep-SDMs)

Benjamin Deneu



3:00pm - 3:20pm

Spatiotemporal patterns of humans and wildlife: The potential of AI and camera trapping

Manuel Steinbauer



3:20pm - 3:40pm

Automated redlisting using deep learning

Alexander Zizka

3:40pm
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4:10pm
Poster session
Location: SynMikro entry hall
 

A cryptic future. Modelling the butterflies Aricia agestis and Aricia artaxerxes under climate change.

Anabel Onay, Christian Hof, Eva Katharina Engelhardt



AI4WildLIVE Citizen portal, archive and analytic tool for multimodal monitoring data

Martin Jansen, Maya Beukes, Matthias Biber



An automated pipeline for assessing leaf-associated interactions and leaf traits

Tobias Müller, Stefan Pinkert, Nina Farwig



Antarctic lichen networks modelled in their environmental space

Anna Götz, Matthias Affenzeller, Lea Maislinger, Wolfgang Trutschnig, Mischa Andreev, Roman Türk, Robert Junker, Ulrike Ruprecht



Automated ecological data extraction using machine learning-based language models

Selwyn Hoeks, Maarten J. E. Broekman, Marlee A. Tucker



BIOfid: accelerating biodiversity research through text mining

Pedro Henrique Dias, Martha Kandziora, Thomas Schmitt, Gerwin Kasperek, Katrin Peikert, Carlos Alberto Martinez Muñoz, Kevin Bönisch, Manuel Stoeckel, Mevlüt Bagci, Alexander Mehler, Thomas Hickler



Burrowing facilitated the distributional success of mammals and imposes contrasting responses to climatic stability

Stefan Pinkert, Lena Krug, Victoria Reuber, Lea Heidrich, Finn Rehling, Nina Farwig, Roland Brandl



Calcareous grasslands and scrubs in Southern Europe: broad-scale plot-based typology and distribution patterns

Denys Vynokurov, Idoia Biurrun, Juan Antonio Campos, Javier Loidi, Itziar García-Mijangos



Does mapping transitions between spectral communities reflect ecological reality?

Vincent Wilkens



Enhancing Plant Phenological Monitoring Through Automated Annotation of Opportunistic Observations

Negin Katal, Michael Rzanny, Patrick Mäder, Hans Christian Wittich, David Boho, Jana Wäldchen



Exploring Regional Insect Trends: A Macroecological Approach

Christian Zehner, Eva Katharina engelhardt, Christian Hof



Forgotten biodiversity - distribution and ecology of Orchidaceae in Madagascar’s open ecosystems

Jakub D. Wieczorkowski, Landy R. Rajaovelona, Alexander Zizka, Caroline E.R. Lehmann



Global biogeography of bat-associated viruses

Simon Biedermann, Anna Walentowitz, Nicolai Nürk, Stephanie Thomas, Carl Beierkuhnlein



Global hotspots of butterfly diversity in a warming world

Stefan Pinkert, Nina Farwig, Akito Kawahara, Walter Jetz



Global patterns of and biotic and abiotic factors affecting specialised metabolites

Maximilian Hanusch, Robert R. Junker



Nature in a mesh: common problems with gridded biodiversity data, and proposed solutions

Petr Keil, Florencia Grattarola, Francois Leroy, Gabriel Ortega Solis, Carmen Soria, Friederike Wölke



Only the tough are good enough - Evidence for selection towards insular woodiness on ancient tephra fields

Simon Biedermann, Anna Hollweg, Anna-Maria Seiverth, Nicolai Nürk, Alessandro Chiarucci, Carl Beierkuhnlein



Patterns of spatial autocorrelation for species distributions and diversity across time and spatial scales

Carmen D. Soria, Gabriel R. Ortega Solís, Vojtěch Barták, Friederike J. R. Wölke, Mutsuyuki Ueta, Karel Šťastný, Vladimír Bejček, Ivan Mikuláš, Petr Voříšek, Petr Keil



Phenotypic and genetic variation within the barley Hordeum murinum across Europe.

Helene Villhauer, Timo Hellwig, Sandy Jan Labarosa, Laura Libera, Ann-Sophie Schmitt, Maria von Korff Schmising, Anna Bucharova



Quartz Islands II - Cross-scale determinants of plant diversity and endemism in quartz island archipelagos in southern Africa

Alexander M. Bürger, Pia M. Eibes, Katharina Meyer, Jens Oldeland, Ute Schmiedel, Severin D.H. Irl



Subsampling plants to assess biodiversity patterns

Ludwig Baldaszti, Samuel Pironon, Neil Brummitt, Peter Moonlight, Tiina Särkinen



The effect of small stream restoration on terrestrial biota

Lena Lerbs, Anna Dotzert, Sven Portig, Sascha Liepelt, Stefan Pinkert, Anna Bucharova



Towards predicting temporal biodiversity changes from static patterns

Friederike J. R. Wölke, Carmen D. Soria, Gabriel R. Ortega Solís, Mutsuyuki Ueta, Karel Šťastný, Vladimír Bejček, Ivan Mikuláš, Petr Keil



Training and Interpreting Deep Neural Networks with the cito R Package

Maximilian Pichler, Florian Hartig



VAT: Bridging GIS, AI, and FAIR Data for Biodiversity Research

Henri Dümpelmann, Bernhard Seeger, Frank Förster, Dominik Brandenstein



Comparative phylogeography of Himalopsyche (Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae) in the Tibeto-Himalayan Region: An assessment of the mountain-geobiodiversity hypothesis

Xiling Deng, Sami Domisch, Steffen Pauls



Using global vegetation data and remote sensing to identify groundwater-dependent vegetation

Léonard El-Hokayem, Gabriella Damasceno, Helge Bruehlheide, Francesco Maria Sabatini, Christopher Conrad



Understanding the Impact of small-range species extinctions on biodiversity across biomes

Beatriz Prado-Monteiro, Tabea Giese, Wassila Ibrahim Seidou, Aboubacar Oumar Zon, Julius Köhler, Andressa Cabral, Miguel Inácio, Stefan Porembski, Luiz Bondi



Rethinking the relationship between desiccation-tolerant vascular plants and water deficit

Luiz Bondi, Beatriz Prado-Monteiro, Luiza F. A. de Paula, Bruno H. P. Rosado, Stefan Porembski



The centers of diversity and endemism for desiccation-tolerant vascular plants in Africa.

Wassila Ibrahim Seidou, Luiz Bondi, Stefan Porembski, Edson Lezin Bomisso



Automated Red List Assessment Provides Efficient but Optimistic Estimates of Plant Species Extinction Risk in Germany

Hannah Spieker, Alexander Zizka

4:30pm
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5:30pm
Island biogeography
Location: SynMikro meeting room
Chair: Maaike Bader
 
4:30pm - 4:50pm

Global floristic homogenisation on islands during the past 5000 years

Anna Walentowitz, Nichola Strandberg, Manuel Steinbauer, Sandra Nogué



4:50pm - 5:10pm

Global patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity and their drivers in island birds

Jan B. Kalusche, Patrick Weigelt, Ana Maria Bastidas Urrutia, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Christian Hof, Susanne A. Fritz



5:10pm - 5:30pm

Island biogeography of fishes in Indonesian marine lakes

Adriana Alzate, Awaludinnoer Ahmad, Noortje Barning, Lisa Becking, Maarten Hoepel, Dea Fauzia Lestari, Stephanie Martinez, Francesco Pelizza, Beginer Subhan



5:30pm - 5:50pm

Unique and tricky to measure: Functional traits of habitat-specialized succulent plants on edaphic quartz islands in the Knersvlakte

Pia Maria Eibes, Ute Schmiedel, Meline Brendel, Annelise Le Roux, A. Muthama Muasya, Aaron Niekamp, Jens Oldeland, Wanda Thormählen, Daniel A. Zhigila, Severin D.H. Irl

6:30pm
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8:00pm
Dinner
Location: Botanical Garden