Quantitive bioDIVersityWorkshop
Our planet is facing significant changes: regional shifts, global warming, disturbances, spreading of antimicrobial resistance and rapidly accelerating loss of biodiversity marked by an increase in stochasticity and variability of environmental conditions.
These changes take place at many different levels, in different domains and with a diverse range of impacts. There is an increasing awareness about the impact these changes are having on the planet at a macro level, but there is still no holistic, integrated approach to monitoring, measuring and understanding the changes on biodiversity and their multiple impacts at both local and global scale.
The Quantitative bioDIVersity virtual workshop aims at fuel European and interdisciplinary collaborations to explore quantitative, integrative approaches and methods to characterize and understand biodiversity at different spatio-temporal scales.
Samir Suweis
The Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Physics (co-PI Samir Suweis) of the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Padova, works to understand complex living systems under a framework given by statistical physics and machine learning. Main research themes can be classified in three broad areas: (i) Ecological modelling and biodiversity ; (ii) Data analysis and complex networks in ecology and biology ; (iii) Criticality in living systems.