@techreport{ThonickeRahnerArnethetal., author = {Thonicke, Kirsten and Rahner, Eva and Arneth, Almut and Bartkowski, Bartosz and Bonn, Aletta and D{\"o}hler, Christian and Finger, Robert and Freitag, Jens and Grosch, Rita and Grossart, Hans-Peter and Gr{\"u}tzmacher, Kim and Hartman Scholz, Amber and H{\"a}user, Christoph and Hickler, Thomas and H{\"o}lker, Franz and J{\"a}hnig, Sonja C. and Jeschke, Jonathan and Kassen, Rees and Kastner, Thomas and Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie and Krug, Cornelia and Lakner, Sebastian and Loft, Lasse and Matzdorf, Bettina and Meakins, Felicity and De Meester, Luc and Monaghan, Michael T. and M{\"u}ller, Daniel and Overmann, J{\"o}rg and Quaas, Martin and Radchuk, Viktoriia and Reyer, Christopher and Roos, Christian and Scholz, Imme and Schroer, Sibylle and Sioen, Giles Bruno and Sommer, Simone and Sommerwerk, Nike and Tockner, Klement and Turk, Zachary and Warner, Barbara and W{\"a}tzold, Frank and Wende, Wolfgang and Veenstra, Tonjes and Voort, Hein van de}, title = {10 Must-Knows aus der Biodiversit{\"a}tsforschung}, publisher = {Potsdam-Institut f{\"u}r Klimafolgenforschung e.V. (PIK)}, address = {Potsdam}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6257476}, pages = {58}, language = {de} } @misc{JeltschRoelekeAbdelfattahetal., author = {Jeltsch, Florian and Roeleke, Manuel and Abdelfattah, Ahmed and Arlinghaus, Robert and Berg, Gabriele and Blaum, Niels and De Meester, Luc and Dittmann, Elke and Eccard, Jana Anja and Fournier, Bertrand and Gaedke, Ursula and Gallagher, Cara and Govaert, Lynn and Hauber, Mark and Jeschke, Jonathan M. and Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie and Linst{\"a}dter, Anja and Lucke, Ulrike and Mazza, Valeria and Metzler, Ralf and Nendel, Claas and Radchuk, Viktoriia and Rillig, Matthias C. and Ryo, Masahiro and Scheiter, Katharina and Tiedemann, Ralph and Tietjen, Britta and Voigt, Christian C. and Weithoff, Guntram and Wolinska, Justyna and Zurell, Damaris}, title = {The need for an individual-based global change ecology}, series = {Individual-based ecology}, volume = {1}, journal = {Individual-based ecology}, publisher = {Pensoft Publishers}, address = {Sofia}, issn = {3033-0947}, doi = {10.3897/ibe.1.148200}, pages = {1 -- 18}, abstract = {Biodiversity loss and widespread ecosystem degradation are among the most pressing challenges of our time, requiring urgent action. Yet our understanding of their causes remains limited because prevailing ecological concepts and approaches often overlook the underlying complex interactions of individuals of the same or different species, interacting with each other and with their environment. We propose a paradigm shift in ecological science, moving from simplifying frameworks that use species, population or community averages to an integrative approach that recognizes individual organisms as fundamental agents of ecological change. The urgency of the biodiversity crisis requires such a paradigm shift to advance ecology towards a predictive science by elucidating the causal mechanisms linking individual variation and adaptive behaviour to emergent properties of populations, communities, ecosystems, and ecological interactions with human interventions. Recent advances in computational technologies, sensors, and analytical tools now offer unprecedented opportunities to overcome past challenges and lay the foundation for a truly integrated Individual-Based Global Change Ecology (IBGCE). Unravelling the potential role of individual variability in global change impact analyses will require a systematic combination of empirical, experimental and modelling studies across systems, while taking into account multiple drivers of global change and their interactions. Key priorities include refining theoretical frameworks, developing benchmark models and standardized toolsets, and systematically incorporating individual variation and adaptive behaviour into empirical field work, experiments and predictive models. The emerging synergies between individual-based modelling, big data approaches, and machine learning hold great promise for addressing the inherent complexity of ecosystems. Each step in the development of IBGCE must systematically balance the complexity of the individual perspective with parsimony, computational efficiency, and experimental feasibility. IBGCE aims to unravel and predict the dynamics of biodiversity in the Anthropocene through a comprehensive study of individual organisms, their variability and their interactions. It will provide a critical foundation for considering individual variation and behaviour for future conservation and sustainability management, taking into account individual-to-ecosystem pathways and feedbacks.}, language = {en} }