26 - 27 November 2024

Ecological networks:
a window on our changing planet


@IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Join us in Lucca for the Workshop on "Ecological Networks: a Window on our Changing Planet

on the 26th and 27th November 2024!

REGISTER HERE


Ecological networks provide a compact representation of species interactions. As such they are a powerful tool for understanding the Earth ecosystems, how they have assembled in the past, and how they might change in future.

The aim of the present workshop is to bring together researchers working on different aspects of ecological network research, from the field-sampling of ecological data, to statistical inference methods for network reconstruction, to models of network stability and critical transitions.

Through this workshop, we hope to favour the integration of data-driven and model-driven approaches to the study of ecological networks, and to further develop and refine those tools that allow understanding, predicting, and reversing the changes that happen in ecosystems from the local to the global scale.



The Workshop "Ecologial Networks: a window on our changing planet" is a scientific discussion and training event organized by 

IMT School for Advances Studies Lucca

with support from the European Union – Horizon 2020 Programme under the scheme “INFRAIA-01-2018-2019 – Integrating Activities for Advanced Communities”, Grant Agreement n.871042, “SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics”. We also acknowledge support from the Royal Society, International Exchanges Grant IES\R3\233390 as part of which the travel of some participants could be covered.

 Programme (updates in progress)

Tuesday, 26th Nov

08:45 - 09:00 | Registration 

09:00 - 09:30 | Opening 

09:30 - 11:00 | Characterisation of ecological networks across latitudes and biomes

11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 | Ecological networks and their stability

12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 | Network Reconstruction from empirical data

15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 | Ecological networks through change

20:00 - 23:00 | Social Dinner

Wednesday, 27th Nov



10:00 - 11:00 | Open challenges and case studies I - terrestrial

11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 | Open challenges and case studies II - marine

12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 | Open challenges and case studies II - freshwater

15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 | Future Directions (Public Session)

17:00 - 17:30 | Closing Remarks

 Organizers

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