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March 2018

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International Workshop on Ecological Connectivity Modelling

Date: 06.03.2018 - 09.03.2018
Organiser: JU Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, JU Faculty of Geography and Geology
International Workshop on Ecological Connectivity Modelling

The conference is organised by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and Switzerland.

Ecological connectivity is essential for maintaining resilient and viable populations of many species, particularly of those restricted to fragmented habitats or metapopulations facing climate change. Participants of this workshop will gain an understanding of the current state of the art in techniques and methods used for assessment of both structural connectivity (physical distribution of favourable habitat patches) and functional connectivity (how habitat patches facilitate the movement of individuals and their genes for a given species).

The participants will learn how to analyse and handle species distribution and environmental data, and to apply state of the art techniques in habitat modelling, connectivity and species flow as well as assessing connectivity value for given species, including instruction in the use of open source software such as R, QGIS, MaxEnt, Circuitscape, ArcGiS.

The workshop will be organised around four major topics related to four main steps in connectivity assessment:

  • TOPIC 1: SPECIES AND RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
  • TOPIC 2: HABITAT MODELLING
  • TOPIC 3: CONNECTIVITY MODELLING
  • TOPIC 4: CONNECTIVITY ASSESSMENT

The workshop is open to young scientists, PhD students and postdocs. During the workshop, there will be a poster session where participants have the opportunity to present their current relevant research work.

The workshop is organised within  the framework of the CON@SK.PL project: Transboundary ecological connectivity – modelling landscapes and ecological flows (No. 21640051) funded by the Visegrad Funds.