Opening Adresses

Welcome address by:

• Volker Mosbrugger, Director General, Senckenberg Research Institutes and Natural History Museums and Scientific Coordinater, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt/Main, Germany

• Welcome address from Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor, Republic of Germany read by MinDirig Karl-Eugen Huthmacher, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn, Germany

Opening address of the organizers:

• Jörg Hacker, President of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle (Saale), Germany

• Karl Ulrich Mayer, President Leibniz Association, Berlin, Germany