Session Details
ICSZ and ICA Joint Session
Keynote Speaker: Maria Briones
University of Vigo, Scientific committee of Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative
Title: Soil biodiversity: The Big Science of the Small Creatures
ICSZ
Keynote Speaker 1: Patrick Lavelle
Université P. et M. Curie (Paris 6)
Title: Macroinvertebrate communities as indicators and actors of globalMACROFAUNA database
Key note Speaker 2: Andrey S. Zaitsev
Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany
Title: Oribatid mites in uniform environments: local disturbances and intense site management overshadow effects of macrogeographic gradients
Keynote Speaker 1: Hideyuki Miyazawa
Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
(Present address: Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba)
Title: Molecular phylogeny and evolution of two soil arthropod groups, Myriapoda and Apterygota (Hexapoda)
Key note Speaker 2: Thibaud Decaëns
Université de Montpellier, France
Title: Highlighting earthworm biodiversity hotspots in French Guiana
Keynote Speaker1: Jan Frouz
Institute for Environmental Studies
Charles University in Prague, Czech
Title: The effect of soil macro and mesofauna on litter decomposition and nutrient cycling
Keynote Speaker2: Olaf Schmidt
UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, Agriculture and Food Science Centre
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Title: Rapid trophic interactions between soil decomposers, plants and above-ground herbivores
Keynote Speaker: Evan P. Economo
Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Title: Invertebrate conservation in a changing world: linking local and global approaches
ICA
Speaker: Hiroshi Takeda
Doshisha University, Japan
Title: Climate effects on the functional groups of collembola through the decomposition processes in forest ecosystems
Keynote Speaker: Mikhail Potapov
Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia
Title: Morphology in Collembola systematics: the potential and limitations
Keynote Speaker: Dick Roelofs
VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title: Signatures of adaptive evolution in Collembola Genomes
Keynote Speaker: Matty P. Berg
VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title: Use of functional traits in predicting community responses of Collembola to environmental change