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EEBST 2025
Our lab members had the pleasure of presenting several talks and posters at the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium Türkiye (Hacettepe University; 9-11 July 2025). We were excited to share our ongoing research with the community and engage in fruitful discussions.
Oral Presentations
- Pollinator Assemblages as Drivers of Plant Range: Evidence from a Marl Steppe in Central Anatolia – presented by Gülseli Kırgıl
- Effect of Crown Fires on Temperate Mixed Forests of Northeastern Anatolia: A Modeling Approach – presented by Anıl Bahar
- Community Composition and Resistance Levels of Soil Bacteria and Fungi in a Mediterranean Forest Under Varying Wildfire Severities – presented by Bedirhan Avdancı
- Trojan Fir under Climate Warming: A Facilitator Species Facing Regeneration Limits – presented by Nurbahar Usta
Poster Presentations
- Afforestation Alters Epigeic Beetle Community in Central Anatolian Steppes – Cansu Baran & Eylül Evrenosoğlu
- Variability in Germination and Dormancy in Steppe Plant Communities – Berna Yavuz
- Modelling Wildfire Occurrence in Türkiye: The Role of Productivity and Human Influence – Mehmet Göktuğ Öztürk
- Wisdom from Ashes: Exploring Traditional Fire Knowledge and Use in Anatolia – Rüveyda Zehra Öğütverici
- Comparative Analysis of Leaf Flammability Traits in Forest and Shrubland Plants of Western Türkiye – Nursema Aktepe
- Gastrointestinal Helminth Diversity in Captive and Free-Ranging Mountain Gazelles in Hatay, Türkiye – Mina Cansu Karaer
We are glad to have represented our lab with such diverse contributions and thank all participants for their inspiring presentations and discussions.
Awards at EEBST 2025
Our lab is proud to announce that two of our members received significant recognitions at the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium Türkiye (EEBST 2025).
M.Sc. Thesis Award – Mehmet Göktuğ Öztürk
Göktuğ was recognized for his Master’s thesis focusing on wildfire ecology and the drivers of fire occurrence in Türkiye, highlighting the roles of productivity and human influence.
Best Oral Presentation Award – Nurbahar Usta
Nurbahar received this award for her talk on the regeneration limits of Trojan fir under climate warming, presenting valuable insights into how a key facilitator species may respond to future climate scenarios.
We sincerely congratulate both for their outstanding achievements and their contributions to advancing ecological and evolutionary research.
Oral Presentation at EEBST 2025 – Prof. Dr. Çağatay Tavşanoğlu
Our principal investigator, Prof. Dr. Çağatay Tavşanoğlu, delivered an oral presentation at the Philosophy of Biology mini-symposium within EEBST 2025, titled “The Intellectual Evolution of Ecology: Paradigm Shifts and Current Trends.”
The talk explored key conceptual shifts in ecology over time and discussed current perspectives shaping the field today.
EEBST 2023
We attended the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium (EEBST), held at Istanbul University, Istanbul, Türkiye, between 17 and 19 July 2023 (https://eebst.ekoevo.org/eebst-2023/).
Our alumni, D. Deniz Kazancı, presented her oral presentation titled “Drivers of among-population variability in fire-related traits in Turkish Red Pine (Pinus brutia Ten.)“, a presentation related to her Ph.D. thesis. We also had three posters by Çağatay Tavşanoğlu (“Comparison of flammability in two serotinous Mediterranean trees“), Mina Cansu Karaer (“In search of mountain gazelles: Examining diet, gastrointestinal parasites, and stress hormones“), and Esra Bayşahan (“Germination responses to incubation temperature in four herbaceous plants at low and high elevations in a Mediterranean mountain“).
EEBST has been held by the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Society (Türkiye) since 2014 every year. The next EEBST will be in Çanakkale, Türkiye in July 2024.
Here is the link for the abstract book of the symposium: https://eebst.ekoevo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Abstract_Book.pdf
Seed Ecology VII
Recently, the 7th edition of the Seed Ecology Conference took place in Gijón/Xixón, Asturias, Spain, from September 6 to September 9, 2022. This prestigious event gathered seed scientists worldwide to discuss the latest research and advancements in seed ecology.
During this conference, our lab PI, Çağatay, presented the first results of our TÜBİTAK project on the possible physio-ecological effects of climate change on central Anatolian steppe plants in his presentation titled “Germination patterns under climate change in the plants of the Central Anatolian steppe“. This presentation highlighted our initial findings and shed light on how temperature, drought, and salinity impact the physiology and ecology of the plant species in this unexplored ecosystem.
The conference proved highly productive, providing a platform for Çağatay to engage with fellow researchers and seed scientists. The exchange of ideas and insights during the event has sparked new research questions and potential avenues for future studies. Interacting with other experts in the field has opened up possibilities for collaboration on seed ecology.
We are looking forward to the next Seed Ecology conference planned to be held in Panama in 2025.
XIV MEDECOS Conference
XIV MEDECOS Conference & XIII AEET Meeting were held in Sevilla, Spain between 31 January and 4 February 2017. The conference was a huge and successful one with about 600 participants and more than 250 oral presentations.
Our lab PI Çağatay Tavşanoğlu attended the conference with an oral presentation titled “Resprouting ability encapsulates the most functional variability in the Mediterranean Basin flora” (Ç. Tavşanoğlu & Juli G. Pausas). Our former lab member, İsmail Bekar, also attended and he presented his M.Sc. study that was conducted in our lab (İ. Bekar & Ç. Tavşanoğlu, “The role of anthropogenic and natural factors in shaping recent fire regimes in Mediterranean ecosystems“).
MEDECOS is the International Mediterranean Ecosystems Conference, and AEET is Spanish Terrestrial Ecology Association. The next MEDECOS will be in South Africa in 2020.
For more information and the abstract book of the conference: http://www.medecos-aeet-meeting2017.es/
EEBST2016 was held at Hacettepe University
3rd Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, a scientific symposium organized annually by Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Society of Turkey, was held at Hacettepe University between 31 August and 1 September 2016.
Many lab members actively played a role in the organization, and the symposium was a success with 115 participants from nine countries. For more information about EEBST2016, please visit the symposium website: http://www.eebst2016.net/
Ecology and Evolutionary Symposium Turkey 2015: registration open
The 2nd Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium Turkey 2015 will be convening on August 6-7 2015 at METU, Ankara. Talks and poster presentations in all areas of evolutionary biology and ecology will be welcome. Presentations will be in English, and the Symposium will be open to international participation.
Resit Akcakaya (Stony Brook University), Sergey Gavrilets (University of Tennessee), Rasmus Nielsen (University of California, Berkeley), and Daniel Simberloff (University of Tennessee) are keynote speakers of the Symposium.
More information can be found at http://eebst2015.bio.metu.edu.tr/Home.html.
The deadline for abstract submissions is May 15 while the registration closes on July 15.
The Workshop on Genomic Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Three of our lab members, Çağatay, Deniz, and Elif participated in the Workshop on Genomic Methods in Ecology and Evolution, held on 7-8 Feb. 2015 in Mersin, Turkey.
The workshop organized by the Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Mersin, and by the members of the Ecology and Evolution Network of Turkey. (more…)
FESP 2009 was held in Marmaris, Turkey
2nd International Meeting of Fire Effects on Soil Properties (FESP 2009) was held in Marmaris, Turkey by our team on 11-15 February 2009.
A total of 70 participants from 9 countries met to discuss the recent advances in the research of soil-fire relationships in Marmaris. During the first three days, 3 invited, 30 oral and 35 poster contributions were presented at the Meeting. The last day included a short trip to Pamukkale, Turkey.
A special section (edited by Ç. Tavşanoğlu and X. Úbeda) in the scientific journal Environmental Research was published, including a guest editorial and following six contributions in which presented at the Meeting.
You can access the abstract book following this link.
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