HELECOS the national conference of the Hellenic Ecological Society 2-23 October More than 300 participants joined the 8th conference of the Hellenic Ecological Society (HES). The president of the HES, Prof. Despoina Vokou led the organization of a successful conference hosted by our University in Thessaloniki. New Publication: Using climatic suitability thresholds to identify past, present and future population viability October 2016 Our new study was just published in Ecological Indicators! we generate a threshold as an index of a minimum climatic suitability required to sustain large populations, offering an alternative way of interpreting the outputs of climatic niche models. MarCons in Croatia 13-14 October 2016 Colleagues from the Croatian Natural History Museum and the Blue World Institute originated a great meeting of the MarCons project in Zagreb!