The 8th European Conference of Tropical Ecology will be held in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) from 24 to 28 February 2025. We are excited that more than 250 abstracts have been submitted. Furthermore, we are delighted that the NWO (the Dutch Science Foundation) has agreed to be the main sponsor of the event, with additional support coming from the University of Amsterdam Faculty of Science.

The scientific content of the meeting will be delivered through oral and poster presentations. There will be two keynote talks each day (one from a ‘rising star’ and one from a ‘senior’ scientist) and thematically coupled oral and poster sessions to stimulate maximum debate and interaction.

The conference will feature:

Thematic sessions are grouped into seven overarching topics:

• Freshwater and marine ecosystems

• Human-environment interactions

• Monitoring and modelling

• Patterns and processes

• Restoration and conservation

• Spatial and temporal scales

• General Ecology