In this Meeting recent progress and future perspectives in new methodology including adaptation/evolution processes will be discussed, with the focus on linking society and academic fields in reality through multi-disciplinary approaches that include interfacing nature and humans, eco-evolutionary processes, and social collaborations.

SYMPOSIUMS:

Interfacing nature and humans

• Sensor networks, pattern recognition and robots in ecological modelling
• Data treatment and management
• Meta-models
• Network analysis
• Complex systems
• GIS and landscape
• Spatial models
• Simulation models
• Energy quality (e.g., energy, exergy)

Eco-evolutionary processes

• Population and quantitative genetics in ecological modelling
• Molecular ecology/evolution and meta-genomics
• Strategy and game theory
• Population/community stability and persistence
• Ecosystem adaptation/evolution to environmental variability (e.g., climate change)
• Behavioral adaptation to stress and disturbance

Social collaboration for ecosystem sustainability

• Social feedbacks for ecosystem management
• Ecological/environmental economics/sociology
• Models dealing with stress, disturbance and disaster in ecosystems
• Invasion and extinction of species
• Wildlife and resource management
• Pest management
• Biodiversity and conservation management
• Energy efficiency and budget
• Ecosystem services
• Aquatic and river ecosystem management
• Brackish and coastal ecosystem management
• Terrestrial and forest ecosystem management
• Urban ecosystem management
• Education and public relations

GENERAL SESSIONS:

The sessions will be organized in parallel according to hierarchical units of ecological systems, computational methods and applied and related fields across different ecosystems:

Units/Scales

• Ecology in molecules and cells
• Individual ecology in relation with physiology, morphology, behavior etc.
• Population and community ecology
• Ecosystem functioning and management (e.g., energy, bio-geo-chemical cycle)
• Misc.

Computational methods

• Heuristic or data-based models
• Process-based models
• Statistics in relation with ecological modelling
• Misc.

Applied and related fields

• Conservation
• Agriculture
• Forestry
• Fishery
• Disease and health
• Ecotoxicology
• Chemical ecology
• Paleo-ecology
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Misc.