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SUMMARY:Climate change risk of tropical forests across spatial\, temporal 
 and biological scales
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200306T161500Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200306T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:OCTF seminar followed by drinks - all welcome\, booking requir
 ed\n\nClimate change induced biodiversity loss is occurring at unprecedent
 ed rates\, and predicting where\, when and why remains an intractable task
  facing scientists. It is becoming evident that accurately predicting biod
 iversity loss requires research that traverses spatial\, temporal and biol
 ogical scales. Mikey's work has focused on disentangling the relative impo
 rtance of plant traits\, plant–plant interactions at neighbor and commun
 ity levels and genetic variation for mediating forest responses to changin
 g precipitation patterns (i.e. frequency and severity of drought). He will
  focus his discussion on a suite of projects in Malaysian Borneo and highl
 ight results that offer insights into how tropical trees respond to novel 
 precipitation patterns from single drought events to recurring droughts (t
 emporal scales) and from the individual to community level (biological sca
 les). He will finish by offering current knowledge-gaps that have develope
 d from his research and suggest directions for making predictions of fores
 t risk across spatial scales.\n\nBetween 2005 and 2009\, Mikey worked thro
 ughout the USA as a field ecologist mapping forest fire damage and risk\, 
 measuring sequestered carbon and assessing plant−fungal interactions for
  forest restoration projects. He completed his PhD in 2013 under the super
 vision of Prof. Andy Hector from the University of Zurich with a thesis en
 titled\, The Role of Functional-traits in the Response of Tropical Forests
  to Global Change. He remained at the University of Zurich as a postdoc wi
 th the University of Zurich Research Priority Program (URPP) on Global Cha
 nge and Biodiversity until 2015. Since that time\, he has worked as an ind
 ependent researcher by funding himself with four fellowships totalling mor
 e than 500\,000 Euros. He is currently an independent researcher at the Un
 iversidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid\, Spain funded by a personal grant fro
 m the Comunidad de Madrid Atracción de Talento Fellowship and the Directo
 r of Science Coordination with the Southeast Asia Rainforest Research Part
 nership (SEARRP\; searrp.org).\n\nHe is the principal investigator of the 
 CTFS-ForestGEO forest dynamics plot in Danum Valley\, Malaysia\, the site 
 director of the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment in Malaysia and the co-found
 er and director of Shilo an organic agroforestry project in Guatemala. He 
 contributes to two international research networks: 1) the URPP on Global 
 Change and Biodiversity (gcb.uzh.ch/en.html) and 2) the tree mortality net
 work (https://www.tree-mortality.net/)\, and holds an affiliated research 
 position at the University of Minnesota.\n
LOCATION:Dyson Perrins Building (Gottmann Room\, 1st Floor (lift available
 ))\, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1e5b00c0-84bc-43ae-9a3b-33c3c088b876/
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