Integrative Social-Ecological Knowledge Systems: Conceptual and Computational Foundations for Ecological Synthesis

Session

Keynotes

KEYNOTES

28 Sept 2026, 14:15

E010 (CIP)

Description

Keynote talks

37. Keynote: About the relevance of transdisciplinary social-ecological biodiversity research: concepts and opportunities for knowledge integration

Prof. Marion Mehring (Das Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung (ISOE) Frankfurt)

28/09/2026, 14:15

Talk

40. Keynote: Scales of context dependence in ecology — challenges for identifying which context actually matters

Dr Joshua Brian (King's College London)

29/09/2026, 09:15

Talk

“Context-dependence” is a ubiquitous challenge in ecological and social-ecological synthesis. Context-dependence occurs when a relationship varies depending on the conditions under which that relationship is observed. Unless we know what caused that variation (e.g. why is X correlated with Y in some circumstances but not others), we cannot effectively integrate the diverse evidence that exists...