Programme
Wednesday, 4th of March
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Workshop: An introduction to structural equation modelling and path analysis by Vanessa Minden and Cord Peppler-Lisbach |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Continuation of Workshop: An introduction to structural equation modelling and path analysis |
| 19:00 | Dinner at Patio, Bahnhofstraße 11, near Central Station |
Thursday, 5th of March
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome and Introduction by Vanessa Minden, Cord Peppler-Lisbach and Jörg Ewald |
| Chair: Florian Jansen | |
| 9:15 – 10:00 | Keynote: Contemporary range shifts and late-Quaternary niche stasis of terrestrial plants by Jonathan Lenoir |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | How many plant species are there in floodplains? Estimating species richness of vascular plants based on a data base of floodplain vegetation plots
by Peter Horchler |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | A vegetation-based index of biotic integrity applied to riparian vegetation in East Africa
by Kai Behn |
| 11:00 – 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| Chair: Vanessa Minden | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Plant functional strategies in patterned landscapes – responses to the environment and effects on ecosystem properties
by Michael Kleyer |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Using structural equation modelling to disentangle the drivers of understory species richness in eutrophic forest patches
by Cord Peppler-Lisbach |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Poster session with introduction by every author |
| Chair': Cord Peppler-Lisbach | |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | Bavarian Scots pine forests rich in lichen species - Sets of old relevés help to predict future development
by Anton Fischer |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Environmental, spatial and structural components in the composition of mountain forest in the Bavarian Alps
by Barbara Michler |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| Chair: Ute Jandt | |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Keynote: Modeling long-term forest dynamics: Interfacing succession models with empirical data leads to surprises by Harald Bugmann |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Subsidiary, but diverse: mountain forest understorey depends on disruptions of the competitive hierarchy
by Jörg Ewald |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Vegetation dynamics in unmanaged mountain forests following bark beetle induced spruce dieback
by Maria-Barbara Winter |
| 18:00 | Day’s summary and technical information Vanessa Minden & Cord Peppler-Lisbach |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner at Loft, Baumgartenstraße 2, Oldenburg City Center |
Friday, 6th of March
| Chair: Jörg Ewald | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Keynote: Nutrient Network: synthesis through modularized experiments and data analysis by Helmut Hillebrand |
| 9:45 – 10:15 | VegetWeb 2.0 - state of affairs and invitation for cooperation
by Florian Jansen |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | sPlot – the new global vegetation-plot database for addressing trait-environment relationships across the world’s biomes by Ute Jandt |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Conclusion and plenary discussion |
| 11:45 | End of conference and farewell |
