Community Meeting 2024
Explaining trends in biodiversity by scaling up from organism-environment relationships
Date: April 8th 2024
Venue: Utrecht University Botanic Gardens , Budapestlaan 17, Utrecht (Serre, in the greenhouse)
Goals: bring together members of our research community to (1) discuss approaches to better understand organisms and interactions across scales and (2) explore upscaling organism-environment relationships and (3) stimulate connections to large scale biodiversity initiatives
Program
10.30-11.00 arrival (with coffee)
11.00-12.15 Content sessions
1. Innovative research methods to study the role of above and below ground biodiversity in plant functioning
Plenary speaker: Yann Hautier, Utrecht University
2. Plants are not alone- the plant holobiome with a focus on the rhizobiome
Plenary speaker: George Kowalchuk, Utrecht University
3. Plant-animal interactions: hunting, seed dispersal and forest recovery in tropical forests
Plenary speaker: Marijke van Kuijk, Utrecht University
12.15-13.30 Vega(n) lunch, with tours to either BioClive or NPEC facilities
13.30-14.15 Content sessions
4. Bending the curve of insect decline (from physiology to populations and ecological communities)
Plenary speaker: Wilco Verberk, Radboud University
5. Biodiversity initiatives and links to the research community
Hans de Kroon, Radboud University
14.15-15.00
Roundtable discussion regarding the contribution of our research committee to biodiversity research (initiatives, infrastructure)
15.00-16.00
Drinks
Address & directions - Utrecht University Botanic Gardens - Utrecht University (uu.nl)