8h15 – 8h50 – Registration – Front of Room 002
8h50 – 9h00 – Welcome address – Room 002
9h00 – 9h45 – Plenary Talk – Room 002
The geometry of decision making
by Iain Couzin
Behaviour
Room 002
9h45 – 10h00
A natural catastrophic turnover event: individual sociality matters despite community resilience
by Julian Evans
10h00 – 10h15
Collective problem solving in cooperatively breeding common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)
by Sandro Sehner
10h15 – 10h30
Stress and aggression explain varying reproductive rates in established and novel meerkat groups
by Natasha Harrison
10h30 – 10h45
Entry and spread of novel foraging behaviour from immigrant male vervet monkeys into groups
by Pooja Dongre
Population & Evolutionary Ecology
Room G120
9h45 – 10h00
Evolution and constraints of thermal response in Brassicaceae of the central Alps
by Alessio Maccagni
10h00 – 10h15
Cell-level constraints to organismal body size evolution
by E. Yagmur Erten
10h15 – 10h30
Testing the growth rate hypothesis as a predictive framework for microevolutionary adaptation
by Kimberley Lemmen
10h30 – 10h45
r/K strategies determine microbial ecological succession in synthetic marine particles
by Alberto Pascual-García
10h45 – 11h15 – Coffee break – Front of Room 002
Behaviour
Room 002
11h15 – 11h30
Causes of breeding failure in the Little Vermilion Flycatcher, an endemic land bird of the Galapagos
by Célina Leuba
11h30 – 11h45
Rearing group size influences flexibility and appropriateness of social behaviour in a cichlid fish
by Océane La Loggia
11h45 – 12h00
Trophallaxis and the power of the social circulatory system
by Adria LeBoeuf
12h00 – 12h15
Ants fooled by parasitoids, what are the secret ingredients of the magic potion?
by Marion Risse
12h15 – 12h30
Ancient DNA informs about cultural practices
by Zuzana Hofmanová
Community Ecology
Room G120
11h15 – 11h30
On the evolution of trophic position
by Marvin Moosmann
11h30 – 11h45
Context-dependency in diversity-multifunctionality relationships is driven by nitrogen availability
by Noémie Pichon
11h45 – 12h00
Temperature-mediated size structure across biological organization
by Pennekamp Frank
12h00 – 12h15
Different aspects of global change govern responses of vegetation and soil in the European Alps
by Sabine Rumpf
12h15 – 12h30
Phenotypic ability to persist in a changing environment
by Lynn Govaert
12h30 – 14h00 Lunch break
12h30-13h30 General assembly of the Swiss Zoological Society (Room G120)
14h00 – 14h45 – Plenary Talk – Room 002
Biodiversity and pollination services – 20 years of research
by Alexandra-Maria Klein
Biodiversity & Conservation
Room 002
14h45 – 15h00
Effects of climate and land-use changes on a threatened mountain bird species
by Arnaud Gian Barras
15h00 – 15h15
Roosting trees constrain hazel grouse (bonasa bonasia) winter occurance in the swiss prealps.
by Sandrine Wider
15h15 – 15h30
The relationship between the (functional) plant- and butterfly-diversity in Switzerland
by Flurina Kranz
15h30 – 15h45
A paleolimnological approach to identify natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological conditions
by Leighton King
Biotic Interaction
Room G120
14h45 – 15h00
Absence of rapid evolution of an Ambrosia biocontrol agent to sunflower using experimental evolution
by Maria Litto
15h00 – 15h15
The consequences of Squash domestication on chemical defense and resistance to herbivores
by Charlyne Jaccard
15h15 – 15h30
The role of cuticular chemistry in parasitoid wasp specialization
by Corinne Hertaeg
15h30 – 15h45
Mutualism increases infection risk by an antagonist in experimental populations
by Jenalle Eck
15h45 – 16h15 – Coffee break – Front of Room 002
Biodiversity & Conservation
Room 002
16h15 – 16h30
Effects of two refuge management methods on plant species richness in extensively managed
by Lucas Rossier
16h30 – 16h45
Museomics elucidates biodiversity erosion across the last century
by Jérémy Gauthier
16h45 – 17h00
Transfer of invertebrates via hay transfer to restore extensively managed grasslands in Switzerland
by Ariane Stöckli
17h00 – 17h15
Conserving wildflower biodiversity in cities: understanding and designing at the intersection of human actions and ecological processes
by Kevin Vega
17h15 – 17h30
Uncertainty in alien species impact assessments
by Anna Probert
Biotic Interaction
Room G120
16h15 – 16h30
A single biotic change leads to phenotypic, genomic and reproductive divergence in stickleback
by Marius Roesti
16h30 – 16h45
Gated communities: inter- and intraspecific diversity of endosymbionts across four aphid species
by Youn Henry
16h45 – 17h00
Host-herbivore dynamics in a changing climate
by Erik van Bergen
17h00 – 17h15
Host genotype and local population context are the key determinants of disease in the wild
by Anna Norberg
17h15 – 17h30
Stopover decision during migration is affected by a parasite infection in Reed Warblers Acrocephalus
by Alfonso Rojas Mora
17h30 – 19h00 – Poster session and aperitif – Front of Room 002
from 19h00 – Darwin’s dinner – Restaurant of the Engineer School
Darwin’s talk
The Hothouse, the Sandwalk, and the Armchair
by John Pannell
