HYBRID WORKSHOP in BERLIN
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Free workshop on demographic resilience - Aug 2025 in Berlin
Dear colleagues and friends,
We have recently developed a new approach to study the resilience of wild animals. We would like to present this approach to you during a 2-day workshop – with no attendance fee – on Aug 7-8th 2025 in Berlin, Germany.
The idea of the workshop is to teach you how to estimate the resilience of your study population and its variation over time. Considering variation over time can provide more fine-tuned estimates of demographic resilience metrics.
This approach, based on matrix population models parameterised with capture-mark-recapture data, builds on the framework of demographic resilience developed by Capdevila et al. (2020 in Trends Ecol Evol). We developed a new R package (demres – Louvrier et al., 2025) to quantify time-varying demographic resilience and applied it to two long-term datasets of spotted hyenas (White et al., 2025), and several other datasets from the COMADRE database (Louvrier et al. in prep).
This workshop is designed for holders of long-term datasets on free-ranging wildlife populations or those who are considering to work with similar datasets in future and/or have interest and experience in demographic resilience. The aim of this workshop is also to inspire an exchange between field biologists and quantitative ecologists interested in the quantification of demographic resilience. No previous background in quantitative ecology is required.
The workshop is free of charge*, can host up to 50 persons and will be offered as a hybrid event. We can book up to 40 rooms for our guests at our venue at Bildungszentrum Erkner e. V..
If you are interested, please let us (wilder-project@izw-berlin.de) know by Feb 17th 2025, and indicate whether you 1) would like to join in person or remotely, 2) will come on your own or with your team, and 3) would like to book a room at the venue.
We would appreciate it if you spread this information to other potentially interested colleagues.
The WILDER team:
Viktoriia Radchuk, Oliver Höner, Sarah Benhaiem, Adam Clark, Ella White, Julie Louvrier, Ashlee Mikkelsen and Leonie Walter
Reference:
Capdevila, P., Stott, I., Beger, M., & Salguero-Gómez, R. (2020). Towards a comparative framework of demographic resilience. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 35(9), 776-786.
Material:
Louvrier et al. (2025) demres: An R package to study time-varying demographic resilience
Louvrier et al. in prep. Assessing time-varying demographic resilience across mammals
White et al. (2025) Resilience of a long-lived mammal: time and demographic structure matter
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*Costs not covered: travel, accommodation and dinners
Contact:
Viktoriia Radchuk, Oliver Höner, Sarah Benhaiem, Adam Clark, Ella White, Julie Louvrier, Ashlee Mikkelsen and Leonie Walter
Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW)
in the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
Alfred-Kowalke-Straße 17
10315 Berlin
Venue:
Bildungszentrum Erkner e.V.
Seestraße 39
15537 Erkner
Sponsoring
The workshop on demographic resilience is part of our project “WILDER” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
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