Dear colleagues,
Biology Thursday seminar continues on 14th April, 12:15
Join Zoom Meeting
https://oulu.zoom.us/j/62917763539?pwd=WENZRy9Bb3NlSzlyeVlVamJ4RHR5Zz09
Emma Ladouceur from iDiv, Leipzig, Germany will present her research on:
Disturbance, Regeneration, and the Restoration of Ecological Systems
Ecosystems are increasingly affected by anthropogenic disturbances. Ecological restoration has emerged as a key complementary conservation action, and more resources are now invested into restoration than ever before.
Yet, restoration produces notoriously variable outcomes, carrying risk that goals will not be met, resources will be wasted and biodiversity will suffer the consequences. Improving the predictability of restoration and management actions requires an interdisciplinary
approach that brings together quantitative community ecology, restoration practice, conservation biology, sustainable land-use planning, and systematic decision-making. In this talk, I will draw on several recent and developing projects to illustrate how I
leverage and embrace the interdisciplinarity of understanding biodiversity change while aiming to inform the sustainable management and restoration of human-impacted systems. First, I will show how quantifying the processes that drive regeneration and ecosystem
functioning can help to understand both disturbance and recovery in ecological systems. Second, I will explore how to use human-impacted and restored systems to test theoretical ecological expectations and better inform policy-relevant conservation. Third,
I will demonstrate interdisciplinary synthesis approaches that can help to better understand and implement management and ecological restoration of human-impacted systems. Ultimately, I will illustrate the importance of understanding disturbance, regeneration
and restoration to inform the future sustainable management of ecological systems for biodiversity and the maintenance of human well-being.
More info: https://emma-ladouceur.github.io/conservation/
See you online on Thursday!
Noémie
Noémie Pichon
Post-doctoral researcher
University of Oulu, Finland