**Special German-French cross-section workshop (only invited participants)**

Chairs:

Jean-Marc Guarini, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)-Institut écologie et environnement, Paris, France
Wolfgang Cramer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany

Participants (confirmed so far):

Topic 1 Fluvial ecosystems

Pierre Marmonier, Laboratoire d'écologie des hydrosystèmes fluviaux, Université Lyon, France
Klement Tockner, Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
Josette Garnier, Structure et fonctionnement des systèmes hydriques continentaux (SISYPHE), Paris, France
Peter Haase, Research Institute Senckenberg, Research Station Gelnhausen, Germany

Topic 2 Ecosystem modeling

Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université Montpellier, France
Agostino Merico, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany
Jean-Christophe Poggiale, Laboratoire de microbiologie, de géochimie et d'écologie marines (LMGEM), Montpellier, France
Andreas Oschlies, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences at the University Kiel (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany
Heribert Hofer, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Topic 3 Urban ecology

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Juliane Mathey, Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden, Germany
Philippe Clergeau, Conservation des espèces, suivi et restauration des populations, Paris, France
Ulrike Weiland, Academy for Spatial Research and Planning, Leibniz Forum for Spatial Sciences / Institute of Geography, University of Leipzig, Germany

Topic 4 Landscape ecology

Françoise Burel, Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution (ECOBIO), Rennes, France
Arthur Gessler, Institute of Landscape Dynamic Matters, Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
Jean-Louis Martin, Centre d'ecologie fonctionnelle et evolutive (CEFE), Montpellier, France
Boris Schröder, University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany

Topic 5 Methods for the study of marin and terrestrial systems (Including metagenomics)

Pierre Peyret, Laboratoire Microorganismes : génome et environnement, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Daniel Vaulot, Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin, Roscoff, France
Hans-Peter Grossart, Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany