• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Deborah Strickland (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Environmental Change Institute) , Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
• Web Address: http://www.tropicalforests.ox.ac.uk/
• Organising department: Oxford University Centre for the Environment

Wednesday 11 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - History of niche evolution drives patterns of lineage diversity in tropical tree communities
  Dr Kyle Dexter (Lecturer, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh)

Friday 13 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Protecting elephants, biodiversity, livelihoods & people through community empowerment in Mali
  Susan Canney (Research Associate, Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford)

Friday 20 February 2015 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Measuring levels of forest dependence: a key data precursor for REDD+ and Alternative Livelihoods projects
  Gill Shepherd (Visiting Senior Fellow, International Development Department, LSE/Special Adviser Ecosystems, Commission for Ecosystem Management, IUCN)

Thursday 26 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Ecological consequences of tropical forest fragmentation
  Prof. Jane Hill (Department of Biology, University of York)

Friday 6 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Converting the Global Palm Oil Market to Sustainability Ð potential and limits of private sector driven sustainability standards
  Dr Reinier de Man (Consultant, Leiden, The Netherlands)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 16:15 - Biodiversity, People and Policy
  Dr Robert Bloomfield (bioDiverse.org)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 16:15 - The biodiversity value of degraded tropical forests
  Dr David Edwards (University of Sheffield)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 16:00 - The Ecomodernism Debate with Mark Lynas
  Mark Lynas

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)

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)

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)

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

• 16:15 - Pre-Columbian Amazon-Scale Transformations
  Dr Jose Iriarte (University of Exeter)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

• 16:15 - The Verified Conservation Area Approach
  Frank Vorhies (Earthmind)

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)

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)

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

• 16:15 - Rethinking Ancient Woodland
  Dr Gerry Barnes (University of East Anglia)

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)

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

• 16:30 - Living Root Bridge Ecosystems of India
  Sanjeev Shankar

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

• 16:15 - Madagascar’s orphans of extinction
  Wolfgang Stuppy (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

• 16:15 - The recovery of Murchison Falls
  Michael Keigwin (Uganda Conservation Foundation)

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

• 16:15 - Innovations in financing conservation
  Adam Gibbon (Althelia Ecosphere)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 16:15 - Congo's hidden peatlands
  Prof Simon Lewis (University College London)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 16:15 - Bridging avian biodiversity shortfalls in the Neotropics
  TBA

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 16:15 - Lessons from intensifying agriculture
  Dr Barbara Smith (Coventry University)

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)

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)

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

• 16:15 - Climate change risk of tropical forests across spatial, temporal and biological scales
  TBA

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)

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)

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))

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)

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)

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

• 16:00 - Impacts of large herbivores in closed-canopy tropical forests
  TBA

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 16:00 - Equity & Equitable Access Issues in Forest Certification Systems & Other Accountability Tools
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  Richard Donovan (Independent forest advisor)

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

• 16:00 - Fruit Famine and Hungry Elephants in Central Africa
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  Dr Emma Bush (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)

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

• 16:00 - Woody encroachment as a symptom of global change
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  Dr Nicola Stevens (Trapnell Fellow for African Environments, University of Oxford)

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

• 16:00 - 'Green Deserts' to 'Forests of Plenty': An Archaeology of Tropical Forests
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  Dr Patrick Roberts (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)

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

• 16:00 - Frugivory and seed dispersal: insights from Madagascar's biodiverse ecosystems
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  Prof Onja Razafindratsima (UC Berkeley)

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

• 16:00 - Just add water: structure and function of seasonally dry tropical forests
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  Prof Jennifer Powers (University of Minnesota)

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

• 16:00 - Puzzle pieces or poker chips? What people bring to the table in “multistakeholder” processes
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  Dr Anne Larson (CIFOR-ICRAF)

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

• 16:00 - Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2
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  Dr Anthony Walker (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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

• 16:00 - Hyperdominance and hyperdiversity in the Amazon Tree Flora
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  Prof Dr Hans ter Steege (Naturalis)

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

• 16:00 - Transparency and sustainability in global supply chains
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  Toby Gardner (Stockholm Environment Institute)

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

• 16:00 - Reforestation as a natural climate solution
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  Susan Cook-Patton, PhD (The Nature Conservancy)

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?
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  Prof Pierre-Michel Forget (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle)

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
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  Patrick Meyfroidt, PhD (UCLouvain)

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

• 16:00 - Conservation beyond state-owned protected areas in southern Africa
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  Dr Hayley Clements (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

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

• 16:00 - Integrated spatial planning for multi-functional landscapes
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  Dr Piero Visconti (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)

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

• 16:00 - Amazon tree dominance across forest strata
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  Dr Frederick Draper (Arizona State University/University of Leeds)

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

• 16:00 - The Role of Africa’s Tropical Forests in the Deep Human Past
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  Eleanor Scerri, PhD (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)

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

• 16:00 - Extinction and evolution of early Neotropical rainforests
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  Mónica R. Carvalho, PhD (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute · Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archaeology (CTPA))

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

• 16:00 - The ecology of central African forests: insights from massive commercial datasets
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  Maxime Réjou-Méchain, PhD (AMAP Lab, Montpellier)

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

• 16:00 - Pre-Columbian landuse and legacy effects in Amazonia
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  Prof Mark Bush (Institute for Global Ecology, Florida Institute of Technology)

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

• 16:00 - What to plant, when and where – Restoring tropical landscapes for biodiversity and human wellbeing
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  Dr Marion Pfeifer (Newcastle University)

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

• 16:00 - Meltdown of trophic cascades?
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  Katerina Sam, PhD (Entomology Institute of Biology Centre of CAS, Czechia)

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

• 16:00 - The trouble with nature
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  Professor Sandra Díaz ForMemRS (Córdoba National University)

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

• 16:00 - Defaunation and trophic cascading in the Anthropocene: ecological erosion in the tropics
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  Ana Benítez-López, PhD (Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD‐CSIC))

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

• 16:00 - High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests
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  Dr Aida Cuni-Sanchez (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

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

• 16:00 - Deforestation and fire in the Brazilian Amazon: strategies to reduce this chronic emergency
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  Ane Alencar, PhD (IPAM Amazonia)

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)

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
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  Forrest Fleishmann, PhD (University of Minnesota)

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
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  Plinio Sist (CIRAD)

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
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  Dr Rachael Garrett (ETH Zurich)

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

• 16:00 - Modeling future deforestation and REDD+ in the Congo Basin: some lessons learnt
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  Aline Mosnier (FABLE Consortium, UN Sustainable Solutions Development Network)

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)

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

• 16:00 - Forests in a changing world: narratives, responses, and outcomes
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  Pablo Pacheco, PhD (WWF)

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
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  Dr Oskar Hagen (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research)

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

• 16:15 - Shifting disturbance regimes and the lessons to be learned from forests on the edge
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  Dr Adam Pellegrini (University of Cambridge)

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

• 16:15 - Forest dynamics in a changing world
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  Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert (University of Birmingham)

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)

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

• 16:00 - Social and ecological consequences of land use intensification in African woodlands
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  Dr Casey Ryan (University of Edinburgh)

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
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  Dr. Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira (University of California, Irvine)

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

• 16:15 - Global drivers of tree crown architecture
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  Dr Tommaso Jucker (University of Bristol)

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)