sDiv Calls

full proposal deadline: 14 June 2024

sDiv Calls for Early Career Researcher Working Groups (ECR) and Modular Synthesis Projects (SynFlex)
This call is for projects starting in 2025. Funding cannot be guaranteed after September 2024. This is subject to the approval of iDiv funding beyond the DFG funding.

What?

• All topics and questions related to biodiversity synthesis (incl. social sciences etc) are welcome.
• Funding is available for working groups lead by Early Career Researchers (ECR call) & Synthesis Projects being allowed to use other approaches than working groups (SynFlex).
• With this call, we would again like to encourage proposals that engage genuinely with topics and researchers from under-represented regions (see list here).
• PLEASE NOTE: No Phd student or PostDoc salaries are funded in this call

When?

• Pre-proposal deadline: 12 March 2024, 11:59 PM CET via the iDiv application portal*.
• Decision made begin of April 2024
• Full proposal submission upon invitation before 14 June 2024, 11:59 PM CET via the iDiv application portal* as PDF file using the provided templates.
• Decision made at the end of August 2024

Rules?

• Each proposal needs to involve at least one iDiv member (full and associated members are eligible). Please be pro-active in communicating with suitable project partners (assistance by the sDiv head Marten Winter if needed).

* Registration is required to create your application. It is possible to safe and change data at any time until the final submission, if required fields are filled in. Please contact sDiv for assistance.

Open to early-career researchers (PhD students and Postdocs)

Documents

• sDiv call description
• Working group budget tool
• Letter of support
• Full proposal template

Open for all scientists worldwide for modular flexible synthesis projects, including consumables and staff budget.

Documents

• sDiv call description
• Working group budget tool
• Letter of support
• Full proposal template

Following our 12th Call, sDiv has received 11 pre-proposals for early-career working groups and 22 pre-proposals for SynFlex projects. 3 applicants for early-career working groups as well as 10 applicants for SynFlex projects received a positive evaluation of their pre-proposal and were invited to submit a full proposal.

ECR Working Groups

• sNext: The future of ecological networks under extreme climate change (ECR) | PIs: Nuria Galiana, Juan David González-Trujillo
• sBIOSOUTH: Holocene BIOdiversity Trends in the Global South and recent potential human impacts (ECR) PIs: Xavier Benito, Annika Herbert
• sCARCITY: sCoexistence Assumptions and Resource Competition In Theory (ECR) PIs: Aubrie James, Anita Simha

SF Working Groups

• Evolutionary and environmental constraints to the multidimensional stoichiometric niche of life PIs: Angelica Gonzalez (SF), Olivier Dézerald
• sLOSS – Using long-term resurvey data and biodiversity experiments to predict ecosystem consequences of real-world biodiversity change (SF) PIs: Yuxin Chen, Donald M. Waller
• sMacrobehaviour: Disentangling Drivers of Geographic Variation in Vertebrate Behaviour (SF) PIs: Sally Keith, Katharine Marske
• sMacroS: Towards a synthesis in soil fauna macroecology (SF) PIs: Anton M. Potapov, Nico Eisenhauer
• RED: The Range Edge Dynamics Working Group (SF) PIs: Jean-Philippe Lessard, Katie Marshall
• sTropiBanks: a pantropical and multi-lingual synthesis of soil seed banks (SF) PIs: Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra, Diana C. Acosta-Rojas
• sDETERMINE:  Direct and Indirect Effects of Mining on Global Ecosystems and Biodiversit (SF) PIs: Victor Maus, Arildo Dias
• sTREND: synthesis on tree Traits Response to Neighboring Diversity (SF) PIs: Hervé Jactel, Simone Mereu
• sEXCRETE: EXamining Consumer Resource Exchange in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems (SF) PIs: Amanda Subalusky, Elizabeth Le Roux
• Participatory decision-making for conservation in human-wildlife conflict contexts: synthesising expertise from research and practice (SF) PIs: Emily Massingham, Hugh Possingham