Biological diversity in a changing world

• 9:00am – 5:00pm on 27 October 2010 – 28 October 2010
• at The Royal Society, London

Organised by Professor Anne Magurran and Dr Maria Dornelas

We live in a world in which biological diversity is under threat as never before. Drawing insights from organisms ranging from microbes to mammals this meeting will show why a deeper understanding of temporal turnover in ecological communities in essential in coping with the changes that the natural world will experience over the next 50 years.

The speakers and chairs are Professor Mike Benton, Professor Anne Chao, Professor Steven Chown, Professor Andrew Clarke, Professor Rita Colwell, Professor Robert Colwell, Dr Ben Collen, Dr Maria Dornelas, Professor Anne Glover, Professor Nicholas Gotelli, Dr Jessica Green, Professor Jeremy Jackson, Dr Kathleen Lyons, Dr Aaron MacNeil, Professor Anne Magurran, Lord Robert May FRS, Dr Rebecca Morris, Professor Marian Scott OBE, Professor William Sutherland and Dr Ethan White.

Registration
This discussion meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields and is free to attend, but pre-registration online is essential.  An optional lunch is offered each day for £15+VAT per day, and should be booked at registration.  Payment is accepted online by Visa, MasterCard, Visa Debit, Maestro, Electron and Solo cards. 

In the event of a booking for lunch being cancelled, the Society can only refund the payment providing the cancellation is received at no later than 5 working days before the discussion meeting.

The audio recordings of the talks at this meeting are now available.
Click here to access the audio recordings.

The proceedings of this meeting are published in a dedicated issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

This meeting was postponed from April 2010 due to the travel disruption caused by the volcanic eruption in the southwestern part of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajoekull glacier.