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Biological diversity in a changing world

27 - 28 October 2010 09:00 - 17:00

 

 

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 biographies and audio recordings are available below.

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

Organisers

  • Professor Anne Magurran

    Anne Magurran is professor of ecology and evolution at the University of St Andrews. She did her PhD on biological diversity at the University of Ulster, was a postdoc at the universities of Bangor and Oxford and is particularly grateful to the Royal Society for its support in the form of a University Research Fellowship. Anne has written two books on the measurement of biodiversity (Ecological Diversity and its Measurement, Princeton 1988 and Measuring Biological Diversity, Blackwell 2004) and co-edited a further two (Evolution of Biological Diversity, with R.M. May, OUP 1999, and Biological Diversity: Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment, with B.J. McGill, OUP and due for publication later this year). 

  • Dr Maria Dornelas

    Maria Dornelas recently joined the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies at the Universidade de Aveiro, to study biodiversity patterns of deep-sea communities. She was a research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University in Australia (2008-2009) studying coral community dynamics. She was post-doctoral fellow at the University of St Andrews (2007) examining effects of environmental constraints on biodiversity patterns. She completed her PhD at James Cook University in 2006, during which she focused on neutral theory and coral communities. Maria is interested understanding how ecological processes affect biodiversity patterns, and she likes combining fieldwork and mathematical models to address questions under this theme.