Please try to be few minutes before workshop starting at the meeting point in the Faculty of Sciences main hall. There will be a poster of EcoFlor2019 identifying the meeting point.
Workshop 1
From individual to collective creativity in Science Maximum number of participants: 20 (by registration/application order) Places still available: 0 Wednesday 13th, Faculty of Sciences, Media Room at 16:00 Instructors: Isabel Reche & Francisco Perfectti |
Taller 1
De la creatividad individual a la colectiva en Ciencia Número máximo de participantes: 20 (por orden de inscripción/solicitud) Plazas aun disponibles: 0 Miércoles 13, Facultad de Ciencias, Medios audiovisuales a las 16:00 Instructures: Isabel Reche & Francisco Perfectti |
Workshop 2
Integral Projection Models (IPMs): a trait-based approach to investigate mechanisms of population responses to environmental change Maximum number of participants: 30 (by registration/application order) Places still available: 4 Wednesday 13th, Faculty of Sciences, Room A04 at 16:00 Instructors: Maria Paniw & Irene Martín |
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Modelos de proyección integral (IPMs): una aproximación basada en caracteres para estudiar los mecanismos de respuesta poblacional al cambio climático Número máximo de participantes: 30 (por orden de inscripción/solicitud) Plazas aun disponibles: 4 Miércoles 13, Facultad de Ciencias, Aula A04 a las 16:00 Instructures: Maria Paniw & Irene Martín |
Round Table Discussion
Needs for synthesis and opportunities of large scale collaboration in floral biology and pollination research.
Moderators: M. Méndez, A. M. Martín González, J. Ollerton, M. C. Castellanos
Main ideas and conclusion by the moderators after the discussion in EcoFlor:
Needs for synthesis and opportunities of large scale collaboration in floral biology and pollination research.
Moderators: M. Méndez, A. M. Martín González, J. Ollerton, M. C. Castellanos
Main ideas and conclusion by the moderators after the discussion in EcoFlor:
ROUND TABLE: Needs for synthesis and opportunities of large scale collaboration in floral biology and pollination research
XVI EcoFlor, Granada, 2019
1. Need for synthesis:
- A recent review on pollination networks did not include Spanish or British authors, even though most studies are concentrated there.
- However, many more relevant questions can be asked with a synthesis of network data, so further reviews led by Spanish researchers would be welcome.
2. Approaches to build large scale collaborations, focused on large databases:
2A. Top down approaches: this refers to cases when a specific research question requires a large database, for example focused on a particular plant lineage. What is the best approach?
- The example discussed was from Ollerton et al. 2018, where a database on Apocynaceae was built in collaboration with dozens of authors, to study pollination systems in this large family.
- Large consortia (preferably multi-disciplinary) may be the best way to achieve a comprehensive study. COST actions would be an option to organize such consortia.
- To guarantee that data collected meet basic quality standards, we should promote standard protocols for gathering data, as people working on functional traits are doing. We could work towards getting collaborations to build and publish such protocols.
- Lessons to learn from consortia working on model systems (like Arabidopsis and Drosophila): they have large central repositories of information, where researchers contribute their data and also theirs plans to collect it before they start.
2B. Bottom up approaches: this refers to cases where raw data are presented in an online repository, available for addressing multiple questions. What data do we have to construct a database? What question(s) does the database generate?
- Several online, open access databases are in progress on plant-pollinator interactions (in Mallorca, Brasil, UK, by Bartomeus lab).
- Ideally, databases will be self-managing to some extent, so that unrealistic long-term time investments by creators is not required.
- Ideally, online databases can call each other. Unifying them instead into a single large database is unrealistic, as creators will use different computer languages and criteria for curation. But there should be some degree of communication, to avoid duplication of efforts and because answering some of the long-standing questions in pollination ecology will require the use different types of data.
- Citizen science should be promoted as a strategy for long-term data gathering and public engagement in scientific studies.
- This kind of data bases can be the embryo for data papers.