The answer to tomorrow's question may lie in the past: the value of long-term records as illustrated by research at Wytham Woods

Seminar followed by Q&A and drinks – attend in person or join online – all welcome

Landscapes are not static but changing. However, these changes may be on time-scales greater than that of the average research grant, of a researcher’s life span, even of an institution’s existence. We often need to put observations we make now into their longer-term perspective, if we are to understand their causes and hence, make projections into the future. Wytham Woods is famous for some of its long-term studies both of the animals and the plants. Keith will use examples from these studies to show why conclusions from what we see now may need to be re-thought when viewed over a longer period.