Name: Integrative Social-Ecological Knowledge Systems: Conceptual and Computational Foundations for Ecological Synthesis
Start: 2026-09-28T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-01T15:30:00+02:00
Location: CIP

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

from Monday, 28 September 2026 (12:00) to Thursday, 1 October 2026 (15:30)

Monday, 28 September 2026

12:00 Registration and Lunch
Registration and Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
Room: E010
14:00 Welcome to the Jena Workshop on Integrative Social-Ecological Knowledge Systems - Robert Frühstückl Tim Alamenciak (Carleton University & University of Waterloo) Tina Heger Birgitta König-Ries (Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Distributed Information Systems)
Welcome to the Jena Workshop on Integrative Social-Ecological Knowledge Systems
- Robert Frühstückl
- Tim Alamenciak (Carleton University & University of Waterloo)
- Tina Heger
- Birgitta König-Ries (Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Distributed Information Systems)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Oak The workshop organizing committee of Birgitta König-Ries, Robert Frühstückl, Tim Alamenciak, and Tina Heger will deliver introductory remarks on the proceedings of the week to come.
14:30 Keynotes: About the relevance of transdisciplinary social-ecological biodiversity research: concepts and opportunities for knowledge integration
About the relevance of transdisciplinary social-ecological biodiversity research: concepts and opportunities for knowledge integration
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Oak
Contributions

14:30 Keynote: About the relevance of transdisciplinary social-ecological biodiversity research: concepts and opportunities for knowledge integration - Marion Mehring (Das Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung (ISOE) Frankfurt)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 15:45
Room: E010
15:45 Paper talks: Session I: Place-based knowledge systems
Session I: Place-based knowledge systems
15:45 - 17:00
Room: Oak
Contributions

15:45 social–ecological networks for biodiversity and ecosystem services

16:00 Bridging Knowledge Systems for Adaptive Social–Ecological Governance: Synthesizing Scientific, Indigenous, and Local Knowledge in India’s Biodiversity Hotspots

16:15 A biocultural framework for categorising human-freshwater fauna interactions for social-ecological integration

16:30 Contextualizing Ecological Synthesis: Indigenous Knowledge, Stewardship, and Environmental Archives
17:00 Posters: Poster session and welcome reception
Poster session and welcome reception
17:00 - 18:30
Room: E010
Contributions

17:20 Adding context to network graphs to improve understanding of ecological theory and data

17:30 Building Ecological Knowledge Graphs: Lessons from CAMO Annotation

17:40 EU AI Act and implications for Global South Conservation governance: The regulatory classification of AI-based ecological synthesis tools

17:50 Integrating Heterogeneous Ecological Knowledge to Improve Automated Moth Species Classification

18:00 Re-imagining rivers' social-ecological future by centering nonhuman perspectives: A multispecies role-playing game

18:10 Traditional Ecological Knowledge System and Resource Degradation Nexus: Insights from Ngoketunjia, North West Region, Cameroon
Tuesday, 29 September 2026

09:00 Unconference planning: Tuesday unconference planning
Tuesday unconference planning
09:00 - 09:15
Room: E010
09:15 Keynotes: Scales of context dependence in ecology — challenges for identifying which context actually matters
Scales of context dependence in ecology — challenges for identifying which context actually matters
09:15 - 10:15
Room: Oak
Contributions

09:15 Keynote: Scales of context dependence in ecology — challenges for identifying which context actually matters - Joshua Brian (King's College London)
10:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 - 10:30
Room: E010
10:30 Paper talks: What works where
What works where
10:30 - 11:45
Room: Oak
Contributions

10:30 The TripleA Principle: Actionability, Applicability, and Auditability for Actionable Knowledge in Post-FAIR Infrastructures

10:45 Challenges and options for synthesis and extrapolation for ecosystem restoration outcomes at landscape level

11:00 TIB Knowledge Loom: Publishing Analysis-ready Scientific Knowledge to Accelerate Synthesis Research

11:15 Context-dependent coexistence of social parasites: fungus-growing ant communities as a case study

11:30 Theoretical Syntheses based on model use: How to go from "snapshots" of current theories to "films" of how theories develop.
11:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 - 14:00
Room: E010
12:30 Social Event: Visit to the Botanical Garden
Visit to the Botanical Garden
12:30 - 14:00
Room: E010
Contributions

12:30 Botanical Garden tour
13:00 Social Event: Visit to the Haeckel House
Visit to the Haeckel House
13:00 - 14:00
Room: E010
14:15 Working groups: Bridging the Evidence Gap: A Collaborative Question-ranking Workshop for EcoWeaver
Bridging the Evidence Gap: A Collaborative Question-ranking Workshop for EcoWeaver
14:15 - 15:55
Room: Cornflower
Contributions

14:15 Bridging the Evidence Gap: A Collaborative Question-Ranking Workshop for EcoWeaver
Working groups: Creating Narratives for Ecoweaver/TReK
Creating Narratives for Ecoweaver/TReK
14:15 - 15:55
Room: Feather grass
Working groups: Uncertainty and challenges working group
Uncertainty and challenges working group
14:15 - 15:55
Room: Gentian
Contributions

14:15 Reference Tracking of “Uncertainty” in Ecological Research
15:55 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:55 - 16:15
Room: E010

16:15 Unconference planning: Planning Tuesday Late Afternoon
Planning Tuesday Late Afternoon
16:15 - 16:25
Room: E010

16:25 Group game: The Nonhuman Rhine Assembly
The Nonhuman Rhine Assembly
16:25 - 18:25
Room: 2072

Working groups: Open working group C
Open working group C
16:25 - 18:25
Room: Cornflower

Working groups: Open working group D
Open working group D
16:25 - 18:25
Room: Feather grass
Wednesday, 30 September 2026

09:00 Unconference planning: Wednesday unconference planning
Wednesday unconference planning
09:00 - 09:15
Room: E010

09:15 Keynotes: Dr. Pier Luigi Buttigieg - A new niche for community ontologies in contemporary digital ecosystems: insights from the triumphs and trials of the Environment Ontology (ENVO)
Dr. Pier Luigi Buttigieg - A new niche for community ontologies in contemporary digital ecosystems: insights from the triumphs and trials of the Environment Ontology (ENVO)
09:15 - 10:15
Room: Oak

10:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 - 10:35
Room: E010
10:35 Paper talks: Session III: Representing causality
Session III: Representing causality
10:35 - 11:50
Room: Oak
Contributions

10:35 Navigating research diversity in ecological synthesis: the role of openness and machine actionability

10:50 FAIR, CLEAR, and Causal: A Semantic Framework for Ecological Knowledge Synthesis

11:05 EcoGraphRAG: Causal Evidence Graphs for Grounded Ecological Synthesis

11:20 Evaluating LLMs for Causal-Evidence Auditing in Ecology Literature: A Case Study on Biotic Resistance to Plant Invasions

11:35 Restoration ecology as a poietic practice
11:50 Lunch break
Lunch break
11:50 - 12:50
Room: E010

12:50 Working groups: EcoWeaver Workbench — hands-on schema prototyping
EcoWeaver Workbench — hands-on schema prototyping
12:50 - 13:50
Room: Gentian
Working groups: Interweaving Western and Indigenous water knowledges on rivers
Interweaving Western and Indigenous water knowledges on rivers
12:50 - 13:50
Room: Cornflower
Contributions

12:50 Interweaving Western and Indigenous Water Knowledges on Rivers
Working groups: Open working group E
Open working group E
12:50 - 13:50
Room: Feather grass

13:50 Short break
Short break
13:50 - 14:00
Room: E010

14:00 Working groups: Indigenous and local knowledge-weaving: territorial perspectives
Indigenous and local knowledge-weaving: territorial perspectives
14:00 - 15:15
Room: Cornflower

Working groups: Open working group G
Open working group G
14:00 - 15:15
Room: Feather grass

Working groups: Open working group G2
Open working group G2
14:00 - 15:15
Room: Gentian

15:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:35
Room: E010

15:35 Working groups: How to bring Ontologies to Ecologists (Josh, Ella)
How to bring Ontologies to Ecologists (Josh, Ella)
15:35 - 17:05
Room: Gentian
Working groups: Indigenous data sovereignty in computational ecological knowledge integration
Indigenous data sovereignty in computational ecological knowledge integration
15:35 - 17:05
Room: Cornflower
Contributions

15:35 Indigenous data sovereignty in computational ecological knowledge integration
Working groups: Precovery (Daniel)
Precovery (Daniel)
15:35 - 17:05
Room: Feather grass

17:05 Working groups: EcoWeaver planning session (OPTIONAL)
EcoWeaver planning session (OPTIONAL)
17:05 - 18:50
Room: E010

19:00 Dinner reception
Dinner reception
19:00 - 21:00
Room: E010
Thursday, 1 October 2026

09:00 Unconference planning: Final day unconference planning
Final day unconference planning
09:00 - 09:15
Room: Oak

09:15 Keynotes: Dr. Christina B. Claß, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena - AI and Ethics: challenges for society and science
Dr. Christina B. Claß, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena - AI and Ethics: challenges for society and science
09:15 - 10:15
Room: HS 24

10:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 - 10:35
Room: E010
10:35 Paper talks: Session IV: Machines in the Loop
Session IV: Machines in the Loop
10:35 - 12:05
Room: HS 24
Contributions

10:35 A global synthesis of herbivorous crop pests and their natural enemies using large language models

10:50 LLM-based generation of spatiotemporal knowledge graphs for ecological synthesis

11:05 Knowledge-Guided Species Classification with Multimodal Large Language Models

11:20 The LIB Open Knowledge Space: A semantic architecture for FAIR, CLEAR, and AI-ready biodiversity knowledge

11:35 You ask iAnswer: How Knowledge Graphs and LLMs combine in an accessible and reliable Question-Answering tool for Ecological Research Data

11:50 Talking to Ontologies: Making Scientific Knowledge Accessible through MCP
12:05 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:05 - 13:05
Room: E010

13:05 Working groups: Best practices for LLM
Best practices for LLM
13:05 - 13:50
Room: Oak

Working groups: Reference tracking of "uncertainty" — Part 2: graphs, projections and participant testing
Reference tracking of "uncertainty" — Part 2: graphs, projections and participant testing
13:05 - 13:50
Room: Gentian

Working groups: Semantic modeling of causal mosaic nodes
Semantic modeling of causal mosaic nodes
13:05 - 13:50
Room: Feather grass

13:50 Closing debrief and discussion
Closing debrief and discussion
13:50 - 14:20
Room: HS 24

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