The InvaCulture project
The project “Harnessing iEcology and culturomics to advance invasion science” is implemented jointly by two institutions within the Czech Academy of Sciences – Biology Centre (BC CAS), Institute of Hydrobiology (HBU) in České Budějovice, and Institute of Botany (IBOT) in Průhonice. The project is implemented during 2023-2025, and funded by Czech Science Foundation. Using approaches of iEcology and conservation culturomics the project will collect large bodies of digital data about invasive alien species of Union Concern and develop an IAS introduction model to test the impact of biological, socioeconomic and cultural factors on invasion process.
Latest news
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Meeting in Budějovice
Project team had another productive meeting in České Budějovice in November. We worked on ongoing papers, plans for the upcoming workshop and public communication activities.
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Tree paper
A new publication stemming from our project has been published in the high-profile journal Trends in Ecology and the Environment, titled “Culturomics and iEcology provide novel opportunities to study human and social dimensions of alien species introductions” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.012). To prevent future invasions, it is essential to understand the multiple factors that determine which alien species…
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Bologna, Italy – a congress, a symposium and a workshop
In June 2024, we have attended the 7th European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB 2024), held in Bologna, Italy (https://eccb2024.eu). Within the Congress, we organized a symposium titled “The use of online digital data to advance invasion science”, aimed to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge on approaches for harnessing large digital…
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Workshop in Paris
Between 13 and 16th November we met in Paris 🙂 It was a big crowd of enthusiastic and inspiring people
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