EuBiReCo 2026

This session showcases the transition from descriptive field biology to automated, real-time ecosystem intelligence. By integrating advanced monitoring tools—including remote sensing, robotics, eDNA, isotopes, bioacustics, and camera trapping— this session enables an unprecedented overview of high-resolution data collection. Furthermore, we will address the challenges of the "Big Data" era, focusing on the application of Artificial Intelligence in ecological modelling and the implementation of FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) in collaborative projects.

This session focuses on life forms and the ecological complexities occurring in keystone extreme environments, interpreted in a broad sense (from glaciers to wetlands, from mountain ridges to subterranean caves). These localized habitats are defined by species richness and endemism, which provide disproportionately high contributions to global ecosystem functional processes. The focus will be on the occurrence and vulnerability of biodiversity hotspots to global change, emphasizing their role as early-warning systems for climate-driven changes.

This session explores the synergy between scientific research and community engagement, underlining how local communities' knowledge and collaborative approaches inform environmental stewardship. The session will examine the role of citizen science and place-based collaborative projects in biodiversity assessment, while analyzing the deep interplay between landscape history and contemporary management practices, to ultimately produce ethically grounded, scientifically rigorous, and socially impactful participatory research.

This session aims to accommodate general contributions on biodiversity patterns at multiple organizational levels, with a focus on conservation relevance.
The session includes two specific topics, as follows:

i. Biodiversity conservation and nature restoration under global changes
As traditional conservation strategies face the unprecedented speed of the Anthropocene, this session examines novel studies applied to Nature Restoration.
The discussion will center on the effects of climate change, environmental alterations and anthropogenic impacts on novel ecosystems, and thus enabling the future policy for biological diversity that has no historical analog.

ii. Integrated Ecosystem Dynamics, synergies among microbial networks, trophic complexity and global health resilience
This topic addresses the relevance of multidisciplinary, holistic studies to examine the systemic connectivity between microscopic (microbiomes) and the macro-ecological biodiversity, intended as a dynamic, multi-scale system where trophic complexity and non-linear interaction networks could determine ecosystem stability and resistance.