Biodiversity and Ecosystem ServicesInternational Research Opportunity

Origins of the Joint Program

• SESYNC and UFZ had early interest in collaboration (Karin Frank, Bill Fagan, Margaret Palmer etc.)

• Clear overlap with UFZ, sDiv and SESYNC Themes (Ecosystem Services)

• Many discussions and development of a shared agenda and understanding of roles

• Shared RFP developed • Mechanisms to facilitate program discussed and

developed

Program Structure

• Joint Review Panel (US and German) leading to shared decisions on projects

• Small Teams (5-10) working for ~12 months• Team meetings alternate between SESYNC, UFZ

and sDiv – per year one meeting in Germany• Computational Support offered by SESYNC• All Team Leads and Members meet together at

SESYNC at the start (Feb. 2014).• All Team Leads and Members meet at SESYNC at

the conclusion (Dec. 2015)

Leads Pursuit Title

Christoph KuefferETH ZurichDavid Richardson Stellenbosch University

Anticipatory governance and societal feedbacks in socioenvironmentaltransitions: multi-continental Acaciainvasions as a model system

Ralf SeppeltMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (UFZ)Sandra Lavorel Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)Peter VerburgIVM Institute for Environmental

Studies

Effects of land use on the trade-off

between biodiversity and provisioning

ecosystem

Myla AronsonRutgers University Charles NilonUniversity of Missouri

Ecological and social linkages among biodiversity, ESS, and environmental policy and management in the world’s cities

Project Leads Title

Maja SchlüterStockholm Resilience CentreMarco Janssen Arizona State University

Synthesis of micro-scale human decision making to mitigate risks to ecosystem services

David Moreno MateosCentre D’Ecologie Fonctionnelle & EvolutiveHolly Jones Northern Illinois University

Feedbacks between biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services during the recovery process of restored ecosystems after anthropogenic disturbance

Seeta SistlaUniversity of CA, IrvineDaniel Kramer Michigan State University

Playing dominoes with tipping points? Exploring the linkages between anthropogenically-driven shifts in marine and terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services in a rapidly globalizing coastal region within the Mesoamerica Biodiversity Hotspot

Team Members

USA (23) Germany (12)

South Africa (4) United Kingdom (4)

Sweden (3) Portugal (3)

Netherlands (3) Spain (2)

Australia (2) Switzerland (2)

Canada(1) Chile (1)

Mexico (1) Nicaragua (1)

Opportunities and Challenges

• Opportunities– Linking Projects (Theme meetings and Check-in

Video Conference)

– Opportunities to Engage Postdocs

– Other Educational Opportunities

• Challenges– Timing and scheduling

– Travel and Reimbursement

– Remote participants (by Video-Conference)

Opportunities and Challenges

• Opportunities– Including local researchers (@ SESYNC, UFZ, iDiv) –

that have not been part of the core team but very influential/helpful (e.g. local PhD’s, iDIv Ecosystem Service Professor etc)

– @sDiv & @UFZ – each group gave public seminars with great success and possibilities to interact with workshop people afterwards

– One group organizes a Summershool after their UFZ meeting near Leipzig:„How to model human decision making in social-ecological agent-based models”

Opportunities and Challenges

• Opportunities

Opportunities and Challenges

• Opportunities– Including local researchers (@ SESYNC, UFZ, iDiv) –

that have not been part of the core team but very influential/helpful (e.g. local PhD’s, iDIv Ecosystem Service Professor etc)

Opportunities and Challenges

• Opportunities– Including local researchers (@ SESYNC, UFZ, iDiv) –

that have not been part of the core team but very influential/helpful (e.g. local PhD’s, iDIv Ecosystem Service Professor etc)

– @sDiv & @UFZ – each group gave public seminars with great success and possibilities to interact with workshop people afterwards

Opportunities and Challenges

• Opportunities– Including local researchers (@ SESYNC, UFZ, iDiv) –

that have not been part of the core team but very influential/helpful (e.g. local PhD’s, iDIv Ecosystem Service Professor etc)

– @sDiv & @UFZ – each group gave public seminars with great success and possibilities to interact with workshop people afterwards

– One group organizes a Summershool after their UFZ meeting near Leipzig:

Opportunities and Challenges

• Opportunities– Including local researchers (@ SESYNC, UFZ, iDiv) –

that have not been part of the core team but very influential/helpful (e.g. local PhD’s, iDIv Ecosystem Service Professor etc)

– @sDiv & @UFZ – each group gave public seminars with great success and possibilities to interact with workshop people afterwards

– One group organizes a Summershool after their UFZ meeting near Leipzig:„How to model human decision making in social-ecological agent-based models”

Opportunities and Challenges

• Challenges

Opportunities and Challenges

• Challenges

– sDiv does not book travel (but we had governmental participants)

Opportunities and Challenges

• Challenges

– sDiv does not book travel (but we had governmental participants)

– Including iDiv Researchers – timing

Opportunities and Challenges

• Challenges

– sDiv does not book travel (but we had governmental participants)

– Including iDiv Researchers – timing

– Foresee budget allocation in an already small budget

Opportunities and Challenges

• Challenges

– sDiv does not book travel (but we had governmental participants)

– Including iDiv Researchers – timing

– Foresee budget allocation in an already small budget

– Plans for an anticipated across-working group synthesis might be to ambitious...

Results & Future

sDiv would like to do similar collaborationsagain!

• Visibility of our centres increased in the different research communities

• sDiv staff (including me) learned a lot fromSESYNC staff -> Thanks!!!!

• First promising scientific outcomes are on their way

Thanks!