Design restoration projects using ecological principles and the Society for Ecological Restoration standards. Case studies connect limiting factors, community assembly and reference ecosystems with diagnoses of degradation, project objectives and intervention choices. Participants compare passive and active restoration, monitoring and adaptive management, ecological recovery indicators and public participation. Collaborative exercises culminate in proposing restoration of a degraded ecosystem and explaining its expected societal and ecological benefits. Live sessions: 26 and 29 October; 2, 5,
Workshop · Theoretical Ecology
Ecological Forecasting in Practice: Building Iterative Workflows for Biodiversity Predictions
Jan 25–29, 2027
Build and evaluate short-term ecological forecasts by repeatedly linking observations, models and predictions. A biodiversity challenge uses shrub, rabbit and dung-beetle data from Doñana with remote-sensing measurements. Participants process time series and satellite indices, compare autoregressive, hierarchical, correlational and mechanistic models, propagate uncertainty and assess forecasts against benchmarks. Reproducible R workflows lead to a submitted forecast and discussion of how predictions support conservation and adaptive management. Live sessions: 25–29 January, 14:00–18:30 daily,