Líffræðifélag Íslands - biologia.is
Líffræðiráðstefnan 2025
Erindi/veggspjald / Talk/poster E13
Höfundar / Authors: Theresa Henke (1), Elin Lundquist (2), Caitlin Mandeville (3)
Starfsvettvangur / Affiliations: (1) Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA-CSIC), Spain (2) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, (3) Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Kynnir / Presenter: Theresa Henke
In times where global biodiversity is facing various challenges, biodiversity research is shaped by increasing urgency. Here, we explore the interactions between 2 major research trends that have emerged in response. The first is a growing emphasis on transdisciplinary research integrating diverse research fields and societal sectors to address the socio-ecological contexts. The second is the ongoing rapid innovation in research methods used to define, collect, and interpret biodiversity data. Each of these trends has been thoroughly studied on its own, but little work has been done to explore the interaction between them. On the one hand, there is a risk that rapid innovation in research methods can reduce opportunities for collaboration across disciplines (for instance, novel data types may be opaque to potential collaborators in adjacent fields; novel data infrastructures may restrict interoperability). On the other hand, there is great opportunity for knowledge exchange between fields that are undergoing parallel development. To explore this issue, we convened a workshop of > 30 researchers from the Nordic region studying biodiversity from highly diverse disciplinary perspectives. Through facilitated dialogues, we identified key developments in innovation occurring in parallel across fields and considered the implications for transdisciplinary collaboration. Here, we present some outcomes of this process.