🏆 Best PhD Thesis: Işılay Çelik 🏆 Best MSc Thesis: Ufuk Topalan 🏆 Best International Paper: Pelin Taş 🏆 Best Oral Presentations: Arda Sevkar, Hasan Arslan, Melih Kaplan 🏆 Best Poster Presentation: İsa Doğan

EEBST 2026 Annual Achievement Awards 🏆 We're proud to recognize remarkable contributions to master's and doctoral research, oral and poster presentations, and international publications Congratulations to all our award winners for their work in ecology and evolutionary biology

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EEBST 2026: Beyond the Sessions🍂 From keynote lectures and panel discussions to workshops and our field trip to Karagöl, there was plenty to experience beyond the scientific sessions. A few moments from the people, discussions, and experiences that made EEBST 2026 memorable

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Thank you to everyone who shared, connected & contributed to EEBST 2026. This symposium wouldn’t have been the same without you. See you at EEBST 2027! 🌿

Thank you to everyone who shared, connected & contributed to EEBST 2026. This symposium wouldn’t have been the same without you. See you at EEBST 2027! 🌿

Special thanks to our amazing volunteer team for their invaluable efforts throughout the symposium! 💚

A heartfelt thanks to our organizers Emrah Kırdök, Arzu Karahan & Korhan Özkan, and our Society President Hakan Gür, for their dedication. Another special thanks to Mehmet Devrim Çerçi & Ersin Turhal for making our opening ceremony even more special with their music.

Looking back on EEBST 2026: three inspiring days of scientific exchange, discussion, and collaboration. With 180+ participants, 55 oral talks and 81 posters, EEBST 2026 brought researchers and students from Türkiye and beyond together.

🌿 EEBST 2026 has come to an end. Thank you to all participants, speakers, organizers, volunteers, and supporters for being part of this wonderful symposium. See you next year!

Now presenting: Hikmet Hakan Kültür “Microplastics Exposure in Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) Reflects Land-use Differences in Terrestrial Ecosystems.” #EEBST2026

Now presenting: Mert Elverici “Unveiling Pollinator Specialization in Scrophularia: From Floral Traits to Functional Guilds.” #EEBST2026

Now presenting: Ercan Sıkdokur “Brown Bears Retain Wide Ranging and Flexible Movement Behaviour Despite Stable and Predictable Human Food Sources.” #EEBST2026

Now presenting: Kemal Atakan Kavak “Estimating Population Densities of Anatolian Mouflon in Steppes and Red Deer in Forests of Türkiye Using the Random Encounter Model and Comparing Results with Traditional Count Methods.” #EEBST2026

Now presenting: Anton Vlaschenko “From Adaptive Opportunity to Habitat Dependency: Urban Bat Populations and Their Uncertain Future Across Central and Eastern Europe.” #EEBST2026

#EEBST2026 | Session 9: Wildlife Ecology, Behaviour and Biogeography has begun! We’re starting the session with Alper Kağan Selçukoğlu, presenting “Phenotypic Plasticity Drives Brown Bear Circadian Rhythms in Human-Dominated Landscapes.”

Now presenting: Funda Özdemir Değirmenci “Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Holocene Vegetation in Western Anatolia: Integrating sedaDNA with Limnogeological Archives.” #EEBST2026

Now presenting: Arda Sevkar “Ancient Mycobacterium leprae Genomes from Anatolia and Italy Provide New Insights into the Evolution and Dispersal of Leprosy.” #EEBST2026