The international conference on Scenarios and Models of Biodiversity and Ecoystem Services in Support of Decision-Making will be held at the CORUM, Montpellier, France, from 23 to 26 August 2016.

The conference covers scenarios and modelling applications in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. It intends to mobilise experts in all relevant disciplines of natural and social sciences as well as policy makers and practitioners. Conference topics focus on:

• Exploring recent advances in modelling human impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Addressing the use of scenarios and models for decision support
• Mobilising observations of biodiversity and ecosystem services for model development and testing
• Capacity building for developing scenarios and models  and for their use in decision making
• Horizon scanning and addressing gaps in knowledge