Тhe 54th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland will be held September 1-5, 2025 at the University of Würzburg.

Several interesting keynotes for the conference have already been approved, including Anne Chao (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Zuzana Burivalova (University Wisconsin-Madison, US), Jos Barlow (Lancaster Environment Centre, UK), Jean-Philippe Lessard (Concordia University, Canada), Lorenzo Marini (University of Padua, Italy).

At the University of Würzburg, several chairs focus on ecology from different perspectives and coordinate this annual meeting: the Chair of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, the Chair of Global Change Ecology, the Chair of Conservation Biology & Forest Ecology, and the Chair of Remote Sensing. All of them focus on current challenges in various ecosystems around the world and train young biologists and remote sensing students for positions not only in academia but also in conservation practice. The 54th Annual Meeting’s motto is "Ecological Systems Under Pressure: Challenges and Solutions" and aims to stimulate exchange between the academic ecological community and practitioners to find solutions to environmental problems. The Local Organising Committee covers a wide range of ecological topics, from classical organismic ecology, via nature conservation issues and functional biodiversity research to remote sensing, in forests, agricultural landscapes, and urban environments in the tropics and temperate zones. The 54th Annual Meeting of the GfÖ will be an interdisciplinary platform to discuss the challenges of our time with scientists from a broad range of ecological disciplines.

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