<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For those studying for a PhD or higher, there is the opportunity toi inventory ecosystem services in Ecuador at the beginning of March. Please read further below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yours,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Robert</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Christine Fürst <<a href="mailto:christine.fuerst@geo.uni-halle.de" class="">christine.fuerst@geo.uni-halle.de</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Cooperation with Ecuador - an invitation</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">7 January 2020 at 21:36:20 CET<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Knight, Tiffany Marie" <<a href="mailto:tiffany.knight@idiv.de" class="">tiffany.knight@idiv.de</a>>, Robert Paxton <<a href="mailto:robert.paxton@zoologie.uni-halle.de" class="">robert.paxton@zoologie.uni-halle.de</a>>, Henrique Miguel Pereira <<a href="mailto:hpereira@idiv.de" class="">hpereira@idiv.de</a>>, "Meyer, Carsten" <<a href="mailto:carsten.meyer@idiv.de" class="">carsten.meyer@idiv.de</a>>, "Quaas, Martin" <<a href="mailto:martin.quaas@idiv.de" class="">martin.quaas@idiv.de</a>>, "<a href="mailto:stefan.klotz@ufz.de" class="">stefan.klotz@ufz.de</a>" <<a href="mailto:stefan.klotz@ufz.de" class="">stefan.klotz@ufz.de</a>>, <a href="mailto:nadja.rueger@idiv.de" class="">nadja.rueger@idiv.de</a>, <a href="mailto:bendix@staff.uni-marburg.de" class="">bendix@staff.uni-marburg.de</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Janina Kleemann <<a href="mailto:janina.kleemann@geo.uni-halle.de" class="">janina.kleemann@geo.uni-halle.de</a>>, "<a href="mailto:Hongmi.koo@gmail.com" class="">Hongmi.koo@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:Hongmi.koo@gmail.com" class="">Hongmi.koo@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">I wish you warmly a wonderful start into a healthy, happy and successful New Year and hope you all had some relaxing days over Christmas and New Year. The reason why I write you, is to invite you (upon interest) to participate in a new cooperation project with Ecuador in which we have funding to enable expert exchange and excursions to sustainable build the cooperation with ecosystem services and biodiversity research with Ecuador, which did not participate at IPBES I and thus wanted to realize now a fast track study focussing merely on forest ecosystems and their services as a potential basis for IPBES II.<br class=""><br class="">We are partnering up with IKIAM (<a href="https://www.ikiam.edu.ec/" class="">https://www.ikiam.edu.ec/</a> ) and INABIO (<a href="http://www.biodiversidad.gob.ec" class="">www.biodiversidad.gob.ec</a>) in this little study and both of them have a wast interest to include a broader range of experts for building also future joint research projects. Please let me know if you have interest (and time) for our first joint excursion or if you wish to recommend one of your scientific co-workers to take part and represent your working group. We thought, you might have the most relevant research already connected to the aim of this fast track study and look greatly forward to your (hopefully positive) responses!<br class=""><br class="">With kind greetings<br class=""><br class="">Yours<br class=""><br class="">Janina Kleemann, HongMi Koo and Christine Fürst<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Prof. Dr. habil. Christine Fürst<br class="">Institute for Geosciences and Geography<br class="">Dept. Sustainable Landscape Development<br class="">Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg<br class=""><br class="">Von-Seckendorff-Platz 4<br class="">06120 Halle, Germany<br class=""><br class="">Tel.: +49 345 55 26017<br class=""><br class="">--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">Past President 2015 - 2019 | Member of the Executive Committee 2019 - 2023<br class="">International Association for Landscape Ecology<br class=""><a href="http://www.landscape-ecology.org" class="">www.landscape-ecology.org</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>