Past events

How long does it take for an ecosystem to recover after it is disturbed or destroyed by human activities? How do we know when an ecosystem has recovered? In this lecture, restoration ecologist ...

The Savory Institute claims that Holistic Management (HM) increases production of plants and grazing animals while also increasing soil organic carbon under all conditions in all habitats. Claims have been heavily marketed ...

Symposium Abstract: ‘Nature positive’ – defined as halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 against a 2020 baseline ­– is increasingly discussed as a goal for organizations and more broadly society. Achieving nature ...

In the holistic planned grazing process livestock are used as a tool to reverse the biodiversity loss that leads to desertification – a potential contributor to climate change. Yet, critics argue that ...

In his talk, “40 years of conservation in Sabah”, Glyn will consider the changes that have taken place in this Bornean state of East Malaysia since the late 1970s. Early survey results ...

Our understanding of nature is incomplete, and nowhere is this more evident than when faced with the challenge of maintaining a viable natural world under the dual pressures of land use and ...

My talk will introduce Connected Conservation: a dual-branched conservation model that calls for the conservation community to embrace novel actions to tackle distant wealth-related drivers of biodiversity decline, while enhancing site-level conservation ...

Understanding and predicting the responses to natural systems to disturbances has been a fundamental goal of Ecology since its birth as a science. Still, the study of resilience has been plagued with ...

Tropical coral reefs currently face an unprecedented restructuring since their extant form and function emerged ~24 million years ago in the early Neogene. They have entered the Anthropocene— an epoch where humans ...

The links between the climate and nature crises are clear. Climate shapes patterns of biodiversity at all scales from global to local; ecosystems are key to the global carbon cycle and often ...