WSL Biodiversity Seminar Series 2026 - the spring program is now available

06.01.2026

Our WSL Biodiversity Seminar Series resumes on 14 January 2026. The spring semester program includes nine invited talks addressing current issues in biodiversity research and practice. Topics span biodiversity offsets, land-use planning, soil biodiversity, the effects of agrochemicals on bumblebees, and tropical trees under global warming.

Seminars are open to all WSL staff members and external participants and can be attended in person or online.

We warmly invite colleagues and external partners to join the series.

For more information, please check the links below.

Date	Speaker	Talks
14 January 2026	Simon Zeller, Get Nature Positive	Get Nature Positive: Transforming Construction Into a Force for Biodiversity
28 January 2026	Stephanie Schwab Cammarano, WSL	Integrating Biodiversity Into Planning: Insights From Swiss Land-Use Plan Revisions
25 February 2026	Ute Schmiedel, Hamburg University	Drivers of Spatial Patterns and Long-Term Dynamics in an Arid Biodiversity Hotspot of Southern Africa
11 March 2026	Ken Feeley, University of Miami	Should They Stay or Should They Go? The Responses of Tropical Trees and Tropical Forests to Global Warming
25 March 2026	Marcel van der Heijden, Agroscope	Pesticides, Soil Biodiversity & Soil Functioning
8 April 2026	Jacqueline Hoppenreijs, Ruhr University Bochum	Understanding and Restoring Rivers and (Thus?) Their Vegetation
15 April 2026	Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, WSL	The Pace of Life for Trees Across Latitudinal Gradients in a Changing World
13 May 2026	Silke Bauer, WSL	Of Birds, Bats and Insect – Biodiversity Monitoring of the Airspace
27 May 2026	Andrew F. Brown, University of Bern	Common Herbicide Impairs Fertility but Not Survival in Bumblebees, Bombus impatiens

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