Activity Report 2018
The report of all activities of the iCCB programme in 2018 is now online.
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Activity Report 2017
The report of all activities in the iCCB programme 2017 is online now.
Training Workshop in Africa 2017
The training workshop of IUBS's iCCB programme gathered several experienced and young scientists from more than ten countries in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: Dr Michelle LawingThe Workshop of the integrated Climate Change Biology (iCCB) programme gathered 22 scientists from countries including Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Swaziland, Cameroon, Chile, Germany, France, Finland, United Kingdom, and United States, as well as 20 students from the university in Nairobi. The group “Climatic changing dynamics in ecosystems of Rwenzori Mts and Mt Elgon” led by Raymond Katebaka and colleagues took part in the workshop, with the aim of fostering future research collaboration and development of possible IUBS program. We also had a representative from “The Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems” program from USA (Smithsonian Institute, NHM, Washington DC) to foster future collaboration. It took place in Nairobi, Kenya from 6th-8th March 2017.
Announcement: Traits Past, Present, and Future
Training Workshop: Quantitative approaches to paleontology, conservation, and climate change biology in Africa
The workshop of the iCCB programme of IUBS will bring together paleontologists, ecologists, and quantitative biologists in Nairobi, Kenya, from 6th to 8th March 2017 to discuss how data from paleontology, modern ecology, and conservation biology can be integrated to provide a comprehensive framework for monitoring and measuring ecosystem structure and function through space and time.
Nairobi, Natural History Museum of Kenya, Kenya, 6 - 8 March 2017
Details at iCCB Website
integrated Climate Change Biology (iCCB)
Website of the Programme
Introduction
A wealth of data now exists on biotic changes that occurred over the last one to two decades, but scientific understanding of the processes involved, the magnitude of the changes, and their likely outcomes is still in its infancy, largely due to the lack of long-term baselines against which to compare these data.
The iCCB is working to provide appropriate baselines by integrating data from long-term ecological studies and the even longer-term data provided by paleontology. A trait-based, community macroecology approach allows integration of data across the temporal and spatial scales at which climate change biologists, ecologists, and paleontologists work.
Leader
Jussi T. Eronen, A. Michelle Lawing, Jason Head
Jenny McGuire added to the leadership during 2017 to foster new research initiative and Johannes Müller as program secretary.
Steering Committee
Jussi T. Eronen, Mikael Fortelius, Jason Head, Michelle Lawing, P. David Polly, Christoph Scheidegger, Nils Chr. Stenseth
Countries involved
Finland, Norway, Germany, UK, Switzerland, USA
Field of Research
Climate Change Biology, Conservation Paleobiology, Global Change Ecology
Disciplines involved
Paleontology, Ecology & Evolution, Geology, Atmospheric Science, Conservation Science, Political Science
Questions addressed
- Develop methods that can be used to measure past, present and future.
- Develop modeling for trait evolution and community dynamics through time.
- Investigate what are functional “tipping points” before ecological collapse
- Can we jointly estimate detectability and occurrence in the fossil record?
- How can we use fossil record to inform about future environmental changes?