Events this person is organising:

Friday 10 April 2015 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Wildfire and tree population dynamics in the boreal forest of North America
  Edward A Johnson (University of Calgary)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 24 April 2015 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Naturalists In Paradise (talk followed by drinks and book signing)
  John Hemming (Author and explorer)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 May 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Assessing the importance of termites in global ecosystem processes and services
  Dr Paul Eggleton (Natural History Museum)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 8 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Future of Production Forests and Forestry in the Tropics
  Professor Francis E (Jack) Putz (University of Florida)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Biodiversity, People and Policy
  Dr Robert Bloomfield (bioDiverse.org)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 19 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Linking roots to regions: how root functions alter ecological, hydrological and biogeochemical processes
  Professor Todd Dawson (University of California)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Amazon: Forests, Floods and Food security
  Dr Luke Parry (Lancaster University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 5 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Bushmeat crisis in the Congo Basin: more than a conservation crisis
  Robert Nasi (CIFOR)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 12 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Anthropocene and the Rupture of Climate Change
  Clive Hamilton (Charles Sturt University, Canberra)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 23 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Weighing trees with lasers: new 3D measurements and models of tropical forests
  Dr Mathias Disney (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 29 July 2015 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Savannas of Asia: biogeography, history and current day ecology
  Jayashree Ratnam (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 16 September 2015 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Wind in the Bamboo: Indigenous People Historically defined as “Negrito” Survive in Asia
  Edith Mirante
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 19 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Tales from the Territory: Fires, storms, land use change and north Australian savanna
  Prof Lindsay Hutley (Charles Darwin University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sharing the results of six years of the Sky Rainforest Rescue Project in Acre state, Brazil
  Sarah Hutchinson (WWF-UK)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Deciphering Richard Spruce’s legacy: people and plants in the Brazilian Amazon
  Dr William Milliken (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 9 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Making policies and markets benefit forest communities: participatory forest management in Ethopia
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Mulugeta Lemenih (Farm Africa)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Spatiotemporal analytics for regional low-carbon development: linking LCA and GIS to assess GHG from cocoa farming and deforestation in Peru
  Giancarlo Raschio (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 16 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Agricultural Land-use Dynamics in Kenya: Institutional, Biophysical, and Socio-Economic Drivers
  Mike Norton-Griffiths (World Agroforestry Centre)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 20 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - The biodiversity value of degraded tropical forests
  Dr David Edwards (University of Sheffield)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 27 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - The potential for Natural Climate Solutions to address climate change
  Justin Adams (The Nature Conservancy)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 30 November 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Using Maps to Contest Power: The Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) Group’s efforts to create tools to support a third space beyond ‘development’
  Jerome Lewis (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Making policies and markets benefit forest communities: participatory forest management in Ethiopia
  Dr Mulugeta Lemenih (Farm Africa)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Ecomodernism Debate with Mark Lynas
  Mark Lynas
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 22 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Targeting conservation to safeguard tropical biodiversity: insights from Borneo
  Dr Matthew Struebig (University of Kent)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Linking the ecology and evolution of the savanna biome
  Dr Caroline Lehmann (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - From science to policy: understanding, conserving and restoring the Atlantic forest of Brazil
  Dr Carlos Joly (State University of Campinas/UNICAMP, Brazil)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Pre-Columbian Amazon-Scale Transformations
  Dr Jose Iriarte (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Film screening: I am Chut Wutty
  PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE POSTPONED AND A NEW DATE WILL BE ARRANGED FOR LATER IN THE YEAR
  TBA
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Something's rotten: Multiple views into how wood rots
  Amy Zanne (George Washington University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 6 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The Scale Property of Tropical Forest Disturbances
  Dr Fernando Espírito-Santo (University of Lancaster)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Brazilian Protected Areas: assessment and prospect
  Sergio H C Carvalho (Ministry of the Environment, Brazil)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 3 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Development Without Destruction: Scientists, NGOs, and indigenous activists chart a sustainable alternative to mega-dams in Malaysian, Borneo
  Joe Lamb (The Borneo Project)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 10 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - What controls sensitivity to drought-induced mortality in tropical forests?
  Dr Lucy Rowland (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 22 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The Verified Conservation Area Approach
  Frank Vorhies (Earthmind)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 July 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Variation of climate and ecosystem properties along an elevation gradient in Ecuador
  Professor Jorg Bendix (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany), Dr Jurgen Homeier (Georg-August-Universität, Gottingen)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 19 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Humans are at the centre. But at the centre of what? A new anthropocentrism for the Anthropocene
  Clive Hamilton (Charles Sturt University, Canberra)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 21 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Rethinking Ancient Woodland
  Dr Gerry Barnes (University of East Anglia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Wallace’s ARCs – identifying refugia for biodiversity under climate changes of 1.5° - 7°C
  POSTPONED - please note that this seminar has been postponed due to speaker illness. A new date will be scheduled as soon as possible.
  Dr Jeff Price (University of East Anglia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Living Root Bridge Ecosystems of India
  Sanjeev Shankar
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Madagascar’s orphans of extinction
  Wolfgang Stuppy (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 18 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Exploring the mechanisms by which ancient forests interact with the environment
  Dr Sandra Nogué (University of Southampton)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Integrating Discourse and Practice in Nature Rights and Natural Resources Management: Challenges and Opportunities in Bolivia
  Dr Bernardo Peredo
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 1 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Climate change and catastrophic Amazon die-back – genuine threat or crying wolf?
  Dr Richard Betts (Met Office)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 9 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Island Digital Ecosystem Avatar (IDEA) Consortium: Simulating Coral Reefs, Mosquito-borne Diseases, and other Coupled Natural-Human Interactions
  Neil Davies (University of California Berkeley)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Dynamics of tropical vegetation transitions under global change
  Dr Imma Oliveras (ECI, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 17 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Report from the Frontier: securing forest peoples’ rights to curb tropical deforestation
  Dr Marcus Colchester (Forest Peoples Programme)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Biomass recovery and carbon mitigation potential in regenerating Neotropical forests following agricultural land use
  Robin L Chazdon (University of Connecticut)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Symbiotic nitrogen fixation and the tropical carbon sink
  Dr Sarah Batterman (University of Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 24 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Setting conservation priorities in Indonesian New Guinea
  Dr Rodrigo Camara Leret (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 31 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Holocene climate change and the domestication of SW Amazonia
  Prof Frank Mayle (University of Reading)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 11 April 2017 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Moths, Mountains and Canopy Cranes: or, how to keep busy in your declining years!
  Roger Kitching (Griffith University, Australia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 28 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Droughts and woody plants: Safety, efficiency and whole-plant economics
  Prof Maurizio Mencuccini (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 5 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Developing predictive trait-based scaling theory applied to forests that span broad temperature gradients
  Dr Brian Enquist (University of Arizona)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Shifting from a fertilization-dominated to a warming-dominated period: processes involved. The case for the Tropical forests
  Prof Josep Penuelas (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Nature's contributions to people: a pluralistic approach to the societal benefits of biodiversity
  Prof Sandra Diaz (Co-Chair of the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 22 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The shaping of savannas: fire versus the mammalian megafauna
  Emeritus Professor William Bond (University of Capetown)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 2 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Why does structure matter for forest productivity
  Dr Alexander Shenkin (ECI, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 15 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Fire interactions with climate, deforestation and forest fragmentation in NW Amazonia
  Dr Dolors Armenteras (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 21 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:30 - Forest Defenders Conference
  Prof John Knox (United Nations Human Rights), Sir Ian Redmond (The Ape Alliance), Claudelice da Silva (Forest Defender), Ouch Leng (Cambodian Human Rights Task Force), Justino Sa (National Assembly of Guinea-Bissau), Dr Constance McDermott (University of Oxford), John Vidal (The Guardian), Marie Manson (Civil Rights Defenders), Billy Kyte (Global Witness), Fiachra Kearney (Epsilar Group), Richard Rogers (Global Diligence), Marc Limon (Universal Rights Group)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Doughnut Economics: How to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
  SOLD OUT
  Kate Raworth (Environmental Change Institute)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Big History: Humans and their Environment
  Sir Crispen Tickell (University of Oxford)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Operationalizing REDD+: examples of REDD+ design and implementation in Cameroon
  Sophia Carodenuto (UNIQUE forestry and land use)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Transformation for All - Implementing the Agenda 2030 in Germany from a Practical Policy Perspective
  Dr. Joerg Mayer-Ries
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Using grasses to puzzle out ancient Madagascar, and debunking 6 misleading stories
  Dr Maria Vorontsova (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - C4 photosynthesis: from leaf evolution to global ecology
  Prof Colin Osborne (University of Sheffield)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Culture's role in hazard and climate change risk: worldviews, belief systems and 'alternative facts'
  Dr Lisa Schipper (Overseas Development Institute)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Are past human activities related to observed biodiversity and carbon dynamics in Amazonian forests?
  Crystal Mcmichael, PhD (University of Amsterdam)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Governing Amazonia: Power, Politics, and Contested Landscapes
  Dr Mary Menton (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Supply chain ‘no deforestation’ commitments: plugging the implementation gap
  Mike Senior (Proforest)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - The recovery of Murchison Falls
  Michael Keigwin (Uganda Conservation Foundation)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Innovations in financing conservation
  Adam Gibbon (Althelia Ecosphere)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The effects of warming on the performance of tropical trees, from minutes to centuries
  Martijn Slot (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 26 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Biofuel Energy, Capital Time, and the Destruction of Borneo: An Ethical Perspective
  Professor Michael Northcott (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Interrogating the governance landscape of mangrove forests in Kenya and Zanzibar: implications of complexity and fragmentation
  Dr Fiona Nunan (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Surviving the Anthropocene: a story of biological gains as well as losses
  Professor Chris D Thomas (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Bold retention targets now needed for effective biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene
  James Watson (Wildlife Conservation Society)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - POSTPONED: Historical fire in Amazonia: charcoal, forest composition, and functional traits
  POSTPONED until next term, new date tbc
  Dr Ted Feldpausch (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Congo's hidden peatlands
  Prof Simon Lewis (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - A semantic web for sustainability: Revolutionizing how we write, find, link and reuse data and models
  Prof Ferdinando Villa (Basque Centre for Climate Change), Dr Stefano Balbi (Basque Centre for Climate Change)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Seeing the wood for the trees in the methane cycle: Insights from forests in South and Central America, Indonesia and beyond
  Prof Vincent Gauci (Open University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Entangled territorialities on the fringe of development: an investigation on riverine peoples of the “Terra do Meio” and the impacts of the Belo Monte dam in the state of Para, Brazilian Amazon
  Maíra B. Fainguelernt (NEPAM/UNICAMP, Brazil)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Assisted natural forest regeneration: How polyculture in degraded rainforest can restore the landscape, biodiversity and create sustainable income for local and indigenous people
  Jake Backus (Empathy Sustainability), I. Madé Setiawan
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Factors for success in developing a REDD+ project in the Chyulu Hills landscape of southern Kenya and its integration into a model for long-term conservation financing through multiple ecosystem payments
  Dr Chris Tuite (Conservational International)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 8 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Exploring the role and diversity of mycorrhizal fungi in tropical forests
  Dr Francis Brearley (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Stability and Resilience of Tropical Biomes
  Prof Carla Staver (Yale University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Life-history strategy schemes in consumer-controlled grassy ecosystems
  Associate Prof Sally Archibald (University of the Witwatersrand)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 22 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Forests and water: advances and controversies
  Prof Douglas Sheil (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Panel Discussion: Implications of the Brazilian elections for Brazil’s environmental institutions
  CANCELLED
  Dr Paul Jepson (School of Geography and the Environment), Prof Timothy Power (University of Oxford), Sergio Carvalho (University of Oxford), Dr Erika Berenguer (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Tropical Forests in the Earth System
  Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - How to map the changing carbon stocks of the world's tropical forests
  Dr Edward Mitchard (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Borneo’s tropical forests: carbon sink, vulnerabilities and potential edge resilience enhancement
  Dr Lan Qie (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Nature conservation amidst violent conflict: guerrilla livelihoods and armed mobilization in Virunga National Park, eastern DRC
  Dr Judith Verweijen (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Tropical Rainforests: Example of conservation success
  Tony Juniper (WWF)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Vulnerability and resilience of Tropical Andean biodiversity to climate change
  Carolina Tovar, PhD (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Achieving equity in the context of protected areas
  Dr Kate Schreckenberg (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - CANCELLED - Inter- and intra-specific variation in tropical canopy phenology: Insights from field data and images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
  CANCELLED
  Dr Stephanie Bohnman (University of Florida)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The tropical peat swamps of Southeast Asia - carbon, conflict and compromise
  Prof Susan Page (University of Leicester)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Agriculture and Sustainability in Brazil: The Challenges of Meat and Media
  Myanna Lahsen, PhD (University of Wageningen)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Historical fire in Amazonia: charcoal, soil, and plant functional traits
  Dr Ted Feldpausch (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Opportunities and challenges on the application of REDD+ and similar funds to tropical forest conservation
  Dr Tom Martin (Operation Wallacea)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 25 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Infrastructure Tsunami, China’s Belt & Road, and the World’s Rarest Ape
  William Laurance, PhD (James Cook University, Cairns, Australia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 4 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The state-of-knowledge on the mechanisms driving mortality in moist tropical forests
  Nate McDowell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Restructuring of biodiversity in the Anthropocene under habitat loss and climate change
  Dr Tim Newbold (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 17 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Inter- and intra-specific variation in tropical canopy phenology: Insights from field data and images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
  Dr Stephanie Bohnman (University of Florida)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Bridging avian biodiversity shortfalls in the Neotropics
  TBA
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Improving plant allometry by fusing forest models and remote sensing
  Jerome Chave PhD (UPS Toulouse)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Deconstructing Compensation: Benefit-sharing and co-dependency between oil companies and indigenous communities in Russia and Alaska
  Maria Tysiachniouk (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The phylogeographic structure of tropical plant communities and populations – insights on environmental filtering, dispersal limitation and biogeographic barriers
  Olivier Hardy PhD (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Inside a tropical montane forest: Understanding patterns of plant diversity and ecosystem functioning across the Andes
  Luis Cayuela Delgado (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 21 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Leaf temperatures in tropical forests: what do we know and why is it important?
  Sophie Fauset (University of Plymouth)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Functional trait differences and the mechanisms structuring diverse communities
  Dr Claire Fortunel (UMR AMAP, France)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Nutrient limitation in tropical forests: what we know, what we don’t know, what we really need to know
  Prof James Dalling (University of Illinois)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Amazon forest responses to drought: scaling from individuals to ecosystems
  Dr Scott Saleska (University of Arizona)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - An optimistic vision for a sustainable, wild, and socially just world
  Prof E.J. Milner-Gulland (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Taking a landscape perspective on social and ecological resilience
  Dr Alexandra Morel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - POSTPONED: Lessons from intensifying agriculture
  PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED, A NEW DATE WILL BE ARRANGED FOR NEXT TERM
  Dr Barbara Smith (Coventry University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Towards a better understanding of why and how plants became woody during evolutionary history
  Dr Frederic Lens (Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:45 - People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon
  John Hemming (Author and explorer)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Lessons from intensifying agriculture
  Dr Barbara Smith (Coventry University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Global changes and the challenge of sustainable development: how is nitrogen enrichment affecting ecosystem functioning and services?
  Luísa G. Carvalheiro, PhD (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Have the Lungs of our Planet been pushed to their limits?
  Dr Wannes Hubau (Ghent University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Climate change risk of tropical forests across spatial, temporal and biological scales
  TBA
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - CANCELLED: Tackling cocoa-led deforestation in West Africa - film screening and Q&A
  Please note that this event has now been cancelled.
  Bastien Sachet (Earthworm Foundation)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 20 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - CANCELLED: Deforestation is just the start – the full climate impact of losing intact forest landscapes
  This talk has now been cancelled.
  Tom Evans, PhD (Wildlife Conservation Society)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 27 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Defaunation and trophic cascading in the Anthropocene: ecological erosion in the tropics
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ana Benitez (The Integrative Ecology Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC))
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 5 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Deforestation is just the start – the full climate impact of losing intact forest landscapes
  Tom Evans PhD (Wildlife Conservation Society)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Estimating the global carbon sink due to forest demography
  Dr Thomas Pugh (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 25 June 2020 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Impacts of large herbivores in closed-canopy tropical forests
  TBA
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 17 July 2020 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Mythbusting forests
  Online joining details will be emailed with booking confirmation.
  Prof William Bond (University of Cape Town)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 September 2020 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Disaster developmentalism, flailing states, the commodity consensus and the Amazon safety valve
  Dr Susanna Hecht (UCLA)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 2 October 2020 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Can tropical forests keep up with climate change?
  Richard T Corlett (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 9 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - ECOSTRESS: NASA’s next generation mission to measure evapotranspiration from the International Space Station
  Dr Joshua Fisher (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Navigating the Anthropocene
  This seminar will take place online. Please register to receive joining instructions.
  Prof Ruth Defries (Columbia University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Evolutionary and Ecological Biome Switches at Tropical Savanna-Forest Boundaries
  To receive joining instructions for this online seminar, please register via the booking url given below.
  Prof William Hoffmann (North Carolina State University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 30 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Closing the gaps in restoration science, policy and practice
  To receive joining instructions for this online seminar, please register via the booking url given below.
  Dr Robin Chazdon (World Resources Institute)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 6 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The ecophysiology of Australian tropical rainforests
  To receive joining instructions for this online seminar, please register via the booking url given below.
  Associate Professor Lucas Cernusak (James Cook University, Australia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Untangling the History of Neotropical Biodiversity: The Big Picture
  To receive joining instructions for this online seminar, please register via the booking url given below.
  Prof Lúcia Lohmann (University of São Paulo)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The truth about nature: Environmentalism in the era of post-truth politics and platform capitalism
  To receive joining instructions for this online seminar, please register via the booking url given below.
  Prof. Dr. Bram Büscher (Wageningen University & Research)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Untangling the mystery of the ancient shola forest-grassland ecosystems of India
  To receive joining instructions for this online seminar, please register via the booking url below
  Jayashree Ratnam (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Forest Biomass Estimation from space – new estimates, current challenges, and future opportunities
  To receive joining instructions, please register via the booking url given below.
  Prof Laura Duncanson (University of Maryland)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Megafauna history and biome ecology in South America
  To receive joining instructions for this online seminar, please register via the booking url below.
  Prof. Dr. Vinícius de Lima Dantas (Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 January 2021 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Understanding dimensions and implications of legal trade in wildlife
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Alice C Hughes (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 22 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Equity & Equitable Access Issues in Forest Certification Systems & Other Accountability Tools
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Richard Donovan (Independent forest advisor)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Fruit Famine and Hungry Elephants in Central Africa
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Emma Bush (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Woody encroachment as a symptom of global change
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Nicola Stevens (Trapnell Fellow for African Environments, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - 'Green Deserts' to 'Forests of Plenty': An Archaeology of Tropical Forests
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Patrick Roberts (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Frugivory and seed dispersal: insights from Madagascar's biodiverse ecosystems
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Prof Onja Razafindratsima (UC Berkeley)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Just add water: structure and function of seasonally dry tropical forests
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Prof Jennifer Powers (University of Minnesota)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Puzzle pieces or poker chips? What people bring to the table in “multistakeholder” processes
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Anne Larson (CIFOR-ICRAF)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 March 2021 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Anthony Walker (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 26 March 2021 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Hyperdominance and hyperdiversity in the Amazon Tree Flora
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Prof Dr Hans ter Steege (Naturalis)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 23 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Transparency and sustainability in global supply chains
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Toby Gardner (Stockholm Environment Institute)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 30 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Reforestation as a natural climate solution
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Susan Cook-Patton, PhD (The Nature Conservancy)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 14 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Taking the temperature and measuring health status of endangered and threatened rainforest – Is it serious Doc?
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Prof Pierre-Michel Forget (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Understanding agricultural frontiers emergence in Southern and Eastern Africa: an interdisciplinary approach combining ethnography, remote sensing and decision-making models
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Patrick Meyfroidt, PhD (UCLouvain)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 28 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Conservation beyond state-owned protected areas in southern Africa
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Hayley Clements (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Integrated spatial planning for multi-functional landscapes
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Piero Visconti (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Amazon tree dominance across forest strata
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Frederick Draper (Arizona State University/University of Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 18 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Role of Africa’s Tropical Forests in the Deep Human Past
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Eleanor Scerri, PhD (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 June 2021 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Extinction and evolution of early Neotropical rainforests
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Mónica R. Carvalho, PhD (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute · Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archaeology (CTPA))
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 2 July 2021 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The ecology of central African forests: insights from massive commercial datasets
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Maxime Réjou-Méchain, PhD (AMAP Lab, Montpellier)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 16 July 2021 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Pre-Columbian landuse and legacy effects in Amazonia
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Prof Mark Bush (Institute for Global Ecology, Florida Institute of Technology)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 23 July 2021 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - What to plant, when and where – Restoring tropical landscapes for biodiversity and human wellbeing
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Marion Pfeifer (Newcastle University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 8 October 2021 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Meltdown of trophic cascades?
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Katerina Sam, PhD (Entomology Institute of Biology Centre of CAS, Czechia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The trouble with nature
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Professor Sandra Díaz ForMemRS (Córdoba National University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Defaunation and trophic cascading in the Anthropocene: ecological erosion in the tropics
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Ana Benítez-López, PhD (Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD‐CSIC))
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Aida Cuni-Sanchez (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Deforestation and fire in the Brazilian Amazon: strategies to reduce this chronic emergency
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Ane Alencar, PhD (IPAM Amazonia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Seeing like a Deforester: Settler Taxonomies of Vegetation in the Brazilian Amazon
  We hope to run this seminar as a hybrid event with the choice of attending in person at the Oxford Martin School (followed by drinks at the King’s Arms), or joining online via Zoom.
  Jeffrey Hoelle (University of California)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Forest restoration and nature-based climate solutions frequently fail because they are not grounded in social science
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Forrest Fleishmann, PhD (University of Minnesota)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Is forest management really a tool for the conservation of tropical forests ? A forest ecologist's perspective
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Plinio Sist (CIRAD)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Effectiveness-equity tensions in efforts to achieve zero-deforestation in the tropics through corporate supply chain policies
  To receive joining instructions, please register via the booking url below - in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Rachael Garrett (ETH Zurich)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Modeling future deforestation and REDD+ in the Congo Basin: some lessons learnt
  To receive joining instructions, please register via the booking url below - in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Aline Mosnier (FABLE Consortium, UN Sustainable Solutions Development Network)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 18 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Results based payments and REDD+ safeguards: Challenges for demonstrating and verifying the social and environmental integrity of Verified Emission Reductions at national and jurisdictional scale
  This will be a hybrid event with the option to attend in person or join online. If joining online, click on "View online event" in your booking confirmation email for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Daniela Rey Christen (Climate Law and Policy)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Forests in a changing world: narratives, responses, and outcomes
  To receive joining instructions, please register via the booking url below - in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Pablo Pacheco, PhD (WWF)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Earth history coupled with eco-evolutionary processes explains the uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests
  To receive joining instructions, please register via the booking url below - in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Oskar Hagen (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 18 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Shifting disturbance regimes and the lessons to be learned from forests on the edge
  This will be a hybrid event with the option to attend in person or join online. If joining online, click on "View online event" in your booking confirmation email for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Adam Pellegrini (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 March 2022 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Forest dynamics in a changing world
  This will be a hybrid event with the option to attend in person or join online. If joining online, click on "View online event" in your booking confirmation email for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Tropical plant diversity, biogeography and conservation: a multi-biome approach
  This will be a hybrid event with the option to attend in person or join online. If joining online, click on "View online event" in your booking confirmation email for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Prof Toby Pennington (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 6 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Social and ecological consequences of land use intensification in African woodlands
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Casey Ryan (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 20 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Should we focus on making soy supply chains more transparent and sustainable? A political ecology critique of neo-Malthusianism and Eco-Modernization Theory
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr. Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira (University of California, Irvine)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 27 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Global drivers of tree crown architecture
  This will be a hybrid event with the option to attend in person or join online. If joining online, click on "View online event" in your booking confirmation email for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Dr Tommaso Jucker (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 10 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Bamboo exists, and it modulates the structure and functioning of Andean and Amazonian forests
  This will be a hybrid event with the option to attend in person or join online. If joining online, click on "View online event" in your booking confirmation email for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Belén Fadrique, PhD (University of Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 14 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Nathalie Pettorelli: Conservation under rapid climatic changes: the case for rewilding
  Nathalie Pettorelli (ZSL)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Results based finance and REDD+ safeguards: Challenges for demonstrating and verifying the social and environmental integrity of Verified Emission Reductions at jurisdictional scale
  Daniela Rey Christen (Climate Law and Policy)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Nature recovery in England: why, what and how.
  Tony Juniper, (Natural England)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Prescribing nature for human health.
  Prof Kathy Willis (University of Oxford)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Changes in the Great Plains as indicated by insect ecological responses
  Ellen Welti (Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, Washington)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - The lost rainforests of Britain
  Guy Shrubsole (Writer and campaigner)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 9 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Introduced megafauna and the biological reality of nativeness
  Erick Lundgren (Aarhus University)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 20 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The role of the carbon sink in recovering degraded and secondary forest across the tropics
  Viola Heinrich
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Nature Positive: fact or fiction?
  Dr Joseph Bull (University of Oxford)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The Wildlife Trusts’ action for nature and climate: priorities and challenges.
  Kathryn Brown, (The Wildlife Trusts)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series
• 16:15 - The Wildlife Trusts’ action for nature and climate: priorities and challenges.
  Kathryn Brown (The Wildlife Trusts)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Belowground plant-fungal interactions in forests
  Sofia Gomes, Vincent Merckx
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 17 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Overcoming our societal addiction to growth to build a sustainable wellbeing future.
  Robert Costanza (Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Rewilding
  Charlie Burrell (Knepp)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Phantom credits: why rainforests offsets are not working.
  Patrick Greenfield (Journalist with the Guardian)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The search for a healthy environment.
  Michael Depledge
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 17 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The new Global Biodiversity Framework: the good, the bad and the narratives
  Sandra Diaz (Professor of Ecology at Córdoba National University)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The Art of Plant Conservation
  Chris Thorogood (Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 12 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - What is good about "nature": locating value in the nonhuman world
  Emma Marris
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The Jewel Box: How moths illuminate nature’s hidden rules.
  Tim Blackburn (University College London)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 26 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Mike Morecroft - Climate change and nature recovery: from global thinking to local action
  Mike Morecroft (Natural England)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 2 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Learning from some of the world's most remote coral reefs
  Gareth Williams (Bangor University)

Friday 9 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Quantifying and predicting resilience from individuals, to populations, to whole communities
  Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez (University of Oxford)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 16 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Connected Conservation: rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world
  Rachel Carmenta (University of East Anglia)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 23 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - A future for nature: quantitative perspectives on land and biodiversity under global change
  Tom Harwood (University of Oxford)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 30 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - 40 years of conservation in Sabah
  Glyn Davies (WWF Malaysia)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Tuesday 11 July 2023 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Is livestock grazing essential to mitigating climate change?
  George Monbiot, Allan Savory (The Savory Institute.)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 8 September 2023 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Holistic Management: Claims are not supported but are there social lessons to be learnt?
  Heidi Hawkins
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 22 September 2023 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - The recovery of ecosystem complexity in a changing environment
  David Moreno Mateos (University of Oxford)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 29 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - In search of the holy grail – the one true biodiversity metric
  EJ Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 6 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Fixing our broken relationship with nature.
  Miles Richardson (University of Derby)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Screening of the 'Good Natured' film festival
  TBA
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - A virtual rainforest
  Professor Robert Ewers (Imperial College)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Yawanawá Amazonian Indigenous People: Socio-environmental experiences of ecology, climate, health and territory
  Various Speakers
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 27 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Nature is Culture: The Deep Global History and Transformative Future of Nature-Sustaining Landscapes
  Erle Ellis (University of Maryland)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Can we have it all from the land?
  Dustin Benton (Green Alliance)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Fishing for Nutrition: Healthy Oceans for People and Planet
  Professor Christina Hicks (Lancaster University)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Rewilding European landscapes: lessons learned and future directions for science and practice
  Dr Sophie Monsarrat (Rewilding Europe)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Rewilding, Restoration, and the Future of Nature Recovery.
  James Bullock (CEH)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Mycorrhizas and ecosystem functioning.
  Dr Laura Martinez-Suz (Kew Gardens)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Recovery of degraded coastal ecosystems requires so much more than protection – how restoration and conservation go hand-in-hand
  Dr Tundi Agardy (Sound Seas)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Embracing complexity to understand and predict the consequences of environmental changes on biodiversity.
  Miguel Bastos Araújo (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Land tenure, deforestation, and monocultures: Menaces to food and territorial justice
  Professor Elena Lazos Chavero (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 16 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Captured sunshine: what can an energetic view of life on Earth tell us about nature decline and recovery?
  Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The transformative art of kissing frogs
  Tim Smit (The Eden Project)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Soil Ecology from the microbe’s eye view - Edith Hammer
  Edith Hammer (Lund University)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Tuesday 12 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - AmazonFlux: disentangling biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship through an energy flux perspective
  Ana Carolina Antunes
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 15 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Building collaborations with Indigenous and Local Communities using Extreme Citizen Science
  Jerome Lewis (University College London)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 12 April 2024 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Bending the curves – balancing nature, economy and society, from the bottom up
  David Obura (IPBES)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Restoration Social Science: Understanding how and why people restore landscapes, and what the impacts of that restoration is on human well being.
  Forrest Fleischman (University of Minnesota,)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Africa- Oxford Nature Networking Event
  TBA
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Global Ecological Shift: for the protection and restoration of biodiversity
  Thomas Ward Crowther (ETH Zürich)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Does science impact nature conservation policy? Stories of success and failure.- Hugh Possingham
  Professor Hugh Possingham (Director of The Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science at the University of Queensland)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Boldly reimagining our approaches to nature recovery
  Justin Adams
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods in Ghana: the impacts, adaptations and barriers
  Prof. Philip Antwi-Agyei (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology,)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The planetary boundaries framework: helpful for shaping human futures?
  Kate Raworth (Environmental Change Institute), Erle Ellis (OMS visiting fellow), Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Spirit of the Amazon, Indigenous Peoples of the Xingu
  Sue and Patrick Cunningham
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Wildlife, Warriors, and Women: Large Carnivore Conservation in Tanzania and beyond. Amy Dickman
  Amy Dickman (University of Oxford)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The role of secondary forests in mitigating fragmentation-related extinctions
  Ricardo Rocha (University of Oxford)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 21 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The Return of the Mermaid: Revitilizing the Lerma Wetlands in the highlands of Central Mexico with the guidance of the Mother of the Waters
  Mindahi Bastida and Geraldine Encina
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 28 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The ecology and conservation of atolls
  Sebastian Steibl
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 11 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Toward a General Theory Predicting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Responses to Global Change
  Dr Brian Enquist (University of Arizona)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 18 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Fixing ourselves to fix nature? Inner change as a neglected lever to tackle environmental crisis
  Professor Tom Oliver (Reading University.)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 25 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Conservation Optimism film festival
  N/A
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 1 November 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Making nature-markets work in the 21st century: evidence from England, Australia, and the EU
  Sophus zu Ermgassen (University of Oxford)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Why we need transformative scenarios for people and nature: Building capacities to imagine safe and just futures for all life on Earth
  Laura Pereira (Wits University, South Africa)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Reimagining Bretton Woods: placing nature at the heart of global finance and governance
  Dr Nicola Ranger (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Understanding human-nature relationships: How can we foster more integrated, impactful, and collaborative action to tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis?
  Various Speakers
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - The inevitable loss of large mammals in Malaysia, the lessons not learned, and pointers for the recovery of the surviving species
  Dr. John Payne (Author/CEO, Bring Back Our Rare Animals)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World.
  Dr. Joe Roman (University of Vermont.)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - The Screaming Sky: The strange allure of swifts.
  Professor Charles Foster
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series