Final report from the workshop: http://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/17629
Keynotes:
Oswald Schmitz: The evolutionary ecology of ecosystem functioning: Functional traits, trophic interactions, and ecosystem nutrient cycling
Helmut Hillebrand: Trait variability and environmental heterogeneity constrain community composition and ecosystem processes
Zoe Finkel: Macromolecular and elemental composition of microalgae
Frede Thingstad and Selina Våge: Can we constrain the “everything” in “everything is everywhere” ?
Link to list of participants
Updated list of abstracts (talks and posters, pdf) – Now including day for poster presentations.
Poster format: Less than 1 m wide and 1.4 m high
Breakout groups and programme
Questions for round-table discussions
Detailed programme (pdf)
Programme:
| Time | Sessions/Titles | |
| Sunday | ||
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Opening | Welcome and introduction. Øyvind Fiksen |
| Chair: Jorn Bruggeman | Session 1: Evolutionary and environmental perspectives on traits | |
| 14:10-15:10 | Keynote:
Oswald Schmitz |
The evolutionary ecology of ecosystem functioning: Functional traits, trophic interactions, and ecosystem nutrient cycling |
| 15:10-15:30 | Jasmin Godbold | Impacts of biotic and abiotic context on functional trait expression and ecosystem functioning in the marine benthos |
| 15:30-15:50 | Gil Rilov | Bioinvasions and climate change cause fundamental traits and functional shifts of eastern Mediterranean reef communities |
| 15:50-16:10 | Coffe/Tea | |
| 16:10-16:30 | Hans Dam | Trade off between grazer-induced toxin production and growth in a marine dinoflagellate |
| 16:30-16:50 | Sonia Bejarano | The shape of success in a turbulent world: Wave exposure filtering of coral reef herbivory |
| 16:50-17:10 | Sinead Collins | Trait reversion during adaptation in marine and freshwater microbes |
| 17:10-17:30 | Romain Forestier | Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a trait-based fish community model |
| 17:30-19:00 | Poster session 1 & Icebreaker | Poster session 1. |
| 19:00-20:30 | Dinner | |
| Social |
| Monday | ||
| Chair: Ago Merico | Session 2: Traits, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Keynote:
Hemut Hillebrand |
Trait variability and environmental heterogeneity constrain community composition and ecosystem processes |
| 10:00-10:20 | Martin Lindegren | A trait-based assessment towards understanding long-term changes in ecosystem functioning: the Central Baltic Sea as a case study |
| 10:20-10:40 | Maren Striebel | Trait-based biodiversity and multitrophic dynamics under external forcing |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffe/tea | |
| 11:00-11:20 | Stephanie Moorthi | Inter- and intraspecific consumer trait variation determine consumer diversity effects in multispecies predator-prey systems |
| 11:20-11:40 | Bernd Blasius | Trait-based approach to community structure in a spatial gradient |
| 11:40-12:00 | Mark Ohman | Zooglider-derived trait recognition across the California Current Ecosystem |
| 12:00-12:20 | Matthew McLean | Principal Response Curves to explain the spatiotemporal dynamics of fish functional traits in the Eastern English Channel |
| 12:20 | Info about breakout sessions and round table discussions | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunsj | |
| 13:30-15:00 | Break outs: chalk-talks & discussions | This is an opportunity for group discussions or breakouts suggested by participants. The list of proposed themes, activities and tutorials is provided here. |
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffe/tea | |
| 15:15-16:00 | Break outs: chalk-talks & discussions | Continued |
| 16:00-17:30 | Round tables discussions | World cafe – round-tables. We will use a ‘World-cafe’ round-table discussion format where table hosts present a topic and take notes from the discussion. We rotate tables every 15 minutes while table hosts remain at the table. This section is organized by the steering committee.
Summary of round-table discussions by table hosts, and a general discussion |
| 17:30-19:00 | Poster session 2 | |
| 19:00 – 20:30 | Dinner | |
| 20:30- | Social |
| Tuesday | ||
| Chair: Stephanie Dutkiewicz | Session 3: Plasticity and physiological traits in unicellular organisms | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote: Zoe Finkel | Macromolecular and elemental composition of microalgae |
| 10:00-10:20 | Ben Ward | Balancing resource acquisition and metabolism in phytoplankton growth models: Cellular stoichiometry and size-dependent growth |
| Martina Doblin | Phytoplankton trait expression in dynamic seascapes | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-11:20 | Lee Karp-Boss | Selective pressures on phytoplankton shape |
| 11:20-11:40 | Jeff Bowman | Identification of microbial community traits and application to ecophysiological modeling |
| 11:40-12:00 | Robert Ptacnik | Stoichiometric upgrading – planktivores increase assimilation efficiency through mixotrophy in aquatic deserts |
| 12:00-12:20 | Onur Kerimoglu | Modelling the physiological regulation of autotrophs: upscaling from microcosms to ecosystems |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-17:30 | Outdoor activity, hike, walk & talk | Walk (or swim?) and talk, or continue group discussions |
| 17:30-19:00 | Poster session 3 | |
| 19:00-20:30 | Dinner | |
| 20:30- | Social |
| Wednesday | ||
| Chair: Andrew Barton | Session 4: Traits in microbes – and future directions for trait-based approaches to ocean life | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote
Frede Thingstad and Selina Våge |
Can we constrain the “everything” in “everything is everywhere” ? |
| 10:00-10:20 | Kyle Edwards | Host traits drive viral life history traits across phytoplankton viruses |
| 10:20-10:40 | Elena Litchman | Future directions and challenges of trait-based approaches |
| 10:40-11:00 | Break | Check out |
| 11:00-11:45 | Conclusions, opinions and perspectives | Short prepared statements from members of the audience |
| 11:45-12:30 | Plenary discussion | Open discussion |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch, departure |
Scientific Steering Committee: Ken Andersen (Technical University of Denmark),Andrew Barton (Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of California, San Diego), Stephanie Dutkiewicz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tatiana Rynearson (University of Rhode Island), Øyvind Fiksen (Organizer, University of Bergen), Agostino Merico (Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology), Nicholas Record (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science), Chris Lindemann (University of Bergen), Jorn Bruggeman (Plymouth Marine Lab)