An indicative, but non-exhaustive list of topics includes:

Ecological modelling techniques, including deterministic and stochastic models, individual based modelling, habitat suitability model, population dynamic, machine learning, network analysis, neural networks, structural dynamic and GIS based modelling.

Global Changes, include the analysis of potential effects of different scenarios of climate change, effect of global change on regional ecosystems.

Biodiversity, Stability, Complexity including system and theoretical ecology,ecosystem functioning, regime shifts, chaos.

Sustainability and ecosystem management: including analysis of potential effects of anthropogenic pressures, wildlife and ecosystem based management, ecosystem approach to renewable resource, environmental impact assessment, fishery, aquaculture, enforcement of new regulations and environmental policies.

Uncertainty Analysis and data model fusion, including sensitivity analysis, data assimilation, recursive estimation, assessment of models predictive capabilities, scenario analysis.

Thermodynamic and System Theory, including goal functions, ecological indexes and orientors

Modelling Applications to aquatic ecosystem, including biogeochemistry, food web, fish population dynamics, coupled and end-to-end models, for estuarine, lagoon, coastal and pelagic applications.

Modelling Applications to terrestrial ecosystems, including population dynamics, spatial modelling, applied in conservation and landscape ecology to forest, grassland, and agricultural ecosystems.

Synthesis Integration and Modelling studies, including process studies, descriptive studies and meta-analysis.

Environmental perturbation, including ecotoxicology, invasive species, fishing impact, pest, acidification.