The annual Symposium will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday 10th December in Heinrich-Lades-Halle on Rathausplatz. The broad topic of “Extinction” will showcase cutting-edge research from early-mid career researchers based in research institutions across Europe.
“The collapse of biodiversity and restructuring of ecosystem across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction” - Baran Karapunar, University of Leeds, UK
“Inferring extinction rates from phylogenies” - Bethany Allen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
“Getting to grips with extinction in the late Ediacaran” - Simon Darroch, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt, Germany
“Green Resilience: Plants through the end-Permian Mass extinction” - Evelyn Kustatscher, Naturmuseum Südtirol, Italy
“Lessons for crises past and present? Extinction and resilience in Cretaceous-Paleogene marine ecosystems” - James Witts, Natural History Museum, London, UK
“From fossils to forecasts: Enhancing conservation with paleontological records” - Eileen Straube, Universität Bayreuth, Germany
This symposium is kindly sponsored by Nature Ecology and Evolution.