Abstracts due 30 April.
The University of Potsdam will host the 43rd
Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of
Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The meeting
(www.gfoe-2013.de) will take place from September
9 to 13, 2013 in Potsdam, Germany.
The guiding theme of the 43rd Annual Meeting is
"Building bridges in ecology - linking systems, scales and disciplines".
Along the lines of this guiding theme, we will
stimulate scientific discussions about all
aspects in basic and applied ecological research
contributing to better connect
* temporal scales (e.g. from paleontological
patterns to evolutionary and ecological dynamics),
* spatial scales (e.g. from molecular
processes to landscape dynamics and biogeographical distributions),
* organizational levels (e.g. from individual
adaptation to population survival, community
assembly, ecosystem functioning, and the provision of ecosystem services),
* approaches (e.g. linking understanding and
prediction of patterns, processes and functions;
linking theory development with application,
outreach activities and policy advice),
* ecosystem types (e.g. linking aquatic,
terrestrial, semi-terrestrial, and subsurface biodiversity).
The meeting aims at strengthening the scientific
basis for sustainable development and
biodiversity conservation based on a mechanistic,
scale-crossing understanding of past and current
patterns, processes and functions of biodiversity
and reliable predictions of future dynamics.
Following the bridging theme of our meeting, the
conference will be in parallel to the annual
meeting of the German Society for Limnology (DGL)
with a selected number of joint keynotes and sessions.
The complete list of sessions will soon be announced!
The various aspects of the 2013 meeting theme
will be elucidated by a number of exciting
keynote talks. We are happy to announce that the
following keynote speakers have already agreed to join our meeting:
* Dries Bonte, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
* Fernando Maestre, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain
* William J. Sutherland, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
* Nelson G. Hairston, Jr., Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
* David Raffaelli, University of York, UK
* Lars Tranvik, Uppsala University, Sweden
* Nicole van Dam, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
