Meet Us at the MDPI International Day for Biological Diversity Webinar 2023, 22 May 2023

To commemorate the International Day for Biological Diversity 2023, MDPI is launching a special webinar to encourage researchers to come together, take action, and highlight how the exchange of findings facilitates efforts to raise awareness of all life.

Biological diversity is often understood in terms of the wide variety of plants, animals, and microorganisms. We aim to encourage connection and collaboration among biological scientists and the international open access community to share and show support for biodiversity.

The webinar aims to encourage connections and collaboration among biological researchers and the international open access community to share and celebrate the role biological diversity plays in our lives.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you at the MDPI International Day for Biological Diversity Webinar 2023.

Conference secretariat: Ms. Shun Li
Date and time: 22 May 2023, 9:00 a.m. CEST

This is a free webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.

Unable to attend? Register anyway and we will let you know when the recording is available to watch.

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Luca Sebastiani, Crop Science Research Centre – Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies – Pisa, Italy;
Dr. P. C. Abhilash, Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, India;
Dr. Vittorio Capozzi, Department of Agricultural, University of Foggia, Italy.

Program

Speaker/Presentation	Time in CEST
Introduction	9:00–9:10 a.m.
Prof. Dr. Luca Sebastiani Tree Crop Biodiversity: from research to agricultural solutions	9.10–9:40 a.m.
Dr. P. C. Abhilash Wild and Lesser Utilized Plants for Food Security	9:40–10:10 a.m.
Dr. Vittorio Capozzi	10:10–10:40 a.m.
Q&A Session	10:40–11:00 a.m.

Relevant Special Issues:

Agronomy
"Wild Crop Relatives and Associated Biocultural and Traditional Agronomic Practices for Food and Nutritional Security"
Edited by: Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash, Ajeet Singh,Rama Kant Dubey, Hailin Zhang and Othmane Merah
Submission deadline: 23 June 2023

Insects
"Pollinator Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services"
Edited by: Daniele Sommaggio and María Pérez-Marcos
Submission deadline: 30 September 2023

"Arthropod Trophic Associations in Natural, Urban, Agricultural, Aquatic and Forest Ecosystems: Destabilizing Agent"
Edited by: Erifili P. Nika and Nickolas G. Kavallieratos
Submission deadline: 31 December 2023

Forests
"Wildlife in Forest Habitats"
Edited by: Jakub Borkowski
Submission deadline: 10 July 2023

"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Forests"
Edited by: Margarita Arianoutsou, Nikolaos Fyllas and Josep Peñuelas
Submission deadline: 5 August 2023

Land
"Feature Papers for Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing Section"
Edited by: Sean Sloan, Andrea Belgrano and Stephen Blake
Submission deadline: 5 July 2023

"Perspective on Habitat Degradation, Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change, and Landscape Change"
Edited by: Vanessa Adams
Submission deadline: 26 September 2023

Water
"Biodiversity and Functionality of Plankton Communities"
Edited by: Natalia Kuczyńska-Kippen and Maria Špoljar
Submission deadline: 30 June 2023

"Impacts of Human Activities and Climate Change on Freshwater Fish, Volume II"
Edited by: Pietro Volta, Erik Jeppesen, Vanessa De Santis and Mustafa Korkmaz
Submission deadline: 25 September 2023

JoF
"Fungal Biodiversity and Ecology, 3rd Edition"
Edited by: Lei Cai
Submission deadline: 1 September 2023

"Macromycetes of the Northern Hemisphere: Phylogeny, Taxonomy, Diversity, Distribution, Ecology, Conservation"
Edited by: Vladimír Antonín
Submission deadline: 20 August 2023