Plant-soil feedbacks as driver of ecosystem functioning

13.00 Welcome 
Prof. Dr. Harry Olde Venterink – VUB Research group WILD

13.15 The quest for predicting and using plant-soil feedback
Prof. Dr. Gerlinde De Deyn – Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands

14.00 Plant functional traits and rhizosphere processes: from global patterns to local adaptation
Prof. Dr. Marina Semchenko – University of Tartu, Estonia

16.00 Public PhD Defence Elias Goossens
VUB Research group WILD
Impact of plant soil feedbacks on invasive plants and co-existence in grassland communities