On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Ecology has traditionally treated time as part of the stage upon which ecological interactions play out, the part other being space. Departing from this long-standing view, I will suggest that time, much like space, should be treated as a resource used by organisms for growth, maintenance, and offspring production. I will apply insights from phenology—the study of the timing of life-cycle events—to present a conceptual framework of time in ecology that casts previous observations in a new light. Combining conceptual models with field data, this lecture will demonstrate how phenological advances, delays, and stasis can all be viewed as adaptive components of an organism’s strategic use of time. Hence, the allocation of time by individual organisms to critical life history stages may be seen as not only a response to environmental cues but also as an important driver of interactions at the population, species, and community levels.
