16.09.2026  

Ruben

Session 0:

No paper

Content: Why journal club, guidelines and expectations, ice-breaker, assign papers.

No paper

23.09.2026

Eric

Biodiversity, community assembly and coexistence

Simberloff & Wilson

 Experimental Zoogeography of Islands: The Colonization of Empty Islands

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2307/1934856

Chesson. 2000. Mechanisms of maintenance of species diversity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.

30.09.2026

Biodiversity, community assembly and coexistence

Li et al. 2026

Higher-order interactions enhance the latitudinal tree diversity gradient

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10434-6

07.10.2026

Til

Functional traits and strategies

Augusto et al. 2025

Widespread slow growth of acquisitive tree species

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08692-x

Westoby et al. 2002. Plant ecological strategies: Some leading dimensions of variation between species. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.

14.10.2026

Space, demograpy and metapopulations

Kondrat et al. 2026

No seed size–number trade-off in European beech: climate governs investment per seed

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.71248

Levins. 1969. Some demographic and genetic consequences of environmental heterogeneity for biological control. American Entomologist

21.10.2026

Joshua

Multitrophic interactions

Vidal et al. 2026

Top-Down and Bottom-Up Effects on Insect Herbivores Under Global Change—A Meta-Analysis

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70386

28.10.2026

Zabdi

Disturbance and stability

Isbell et al. 2026

Predicting temporal stability and resilience from resistance and recovery

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10498-4

Loreau & de Mazancourt. 2013. Biodiversity and ecosystem stability : a synthesis of underlyign mechanisms. Ecology Letters

04.11.2026

Xiangyu

Ecosystem functions and services

Ardichvili et al. 2026

Beyond Biomass: How Interactions Shape Species’ Contribution to Ecosystem Functioning

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70370

Tilman et al. 1997. The influence of functional diversity and composition on ecosystem processes. Science.

11.11.2026

Leya

Global change ecology

Babst et al. 2013

Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.12023

Parmesan & Yohe. 2003. A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems. Nature

18.11.2026

Michelle

Global change ecology

Ware et al. 2021

Climate-driven divergence in plant-microbiome interactions generates range-wide variation in bud break phenology

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02244-5

25.11.2026

Raquelle

Conservation and restoration

Malíček et al. 2019

Lichens in old‑growth and managed mountain spruce forests in the Czech Republic: assessment of biodiversity, functional traits and bioindicators

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-019-01834-4

Soulé. 1985. What is conservation biology? BioScience

02.12.2026

The science of ecological research

Cheruvelil & Soranno 2018

Data-Intensive Ecological Research Is Catalyzed by Open Science and Team Science

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/68/10/813/5088531

Chamberlin. 1890. The method of multiple working hypotheses. Science.

09.12.2026

All

Synthesis session:

McElreath lecture

Science is like a chicken coop OR Science as amateur software development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8LqFO1dk-w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwRdO9_GGhY

16.12.2026

No Session

Merry Christmas!