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Postglacial rise in CO2 and terrestrial C storage associated with declining N availability

Submitted by LTEL on Thu, 03/21/2013 - 14:03

Palaeo50: The Pressing Questions in Palaeoecology

Submitted by LTEL on Wed, 11/21/2012 - 12:22

Palaeo50: A horizon scanning workshop to identify the top 50 questions in the palaeoecological community is less than 1 month away. Visit the website page for more information: http://oxlel.zoo.ox.ac.uk/50-pressing-questions-palaeoecology

Darren Jeffers presented a talk at the Quaternary Research Association Annual Meeting

Submitted by LTEL on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 19:01

Darren presented a talk entitled, "Palaeo-rainfall dynamics and vegetation response during the last interglacial in the southern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon: Implications for the current warm period" in the "Using past interglacials as analogues for the current warm stage" session at the QRA Annual Meeting in the New Forest, UK.

PAGES Focus 4 Biodiversity Theme Workshop 9-11 January 2012

Submitted by LTEL on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 14:22

PAGES Focus 4 Biodiversity Theme Workshop to be held in Oxford 9-11th January 2012

"Landscape planning for the future: using fossil records to map potential threats, opportunities and likely future developments for biodiversity and ecosystem services"

Alistair Seddon awarded Small Research Grant from the Royal Geographical Society

Submitted by Emma Burnett on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 08:28

Dr Alistair Seddon has been awarded £3,000 for a Small Research Grant from the Royal Geographical Society, for a project entitled, "Local endemics or rare ecological specialists? Are the Galápagos Islands isolated for diatoms?". The Small Research Grant will be used for a field trip to Galápagos in January, 2012, where he will undertake extensive sampling of coastal and wetland sites and begin a comprehensive survey of all the diatoms living on the archipelago.

Lecture: Professor Kathy Willis at the ZSL, "Biodiversity in a warmer world: Lessons from the past"

Submitted by Emma Burnett on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 10:27

On the 8th of March 2011, Professor Kathy Willis was a speaker at the Zoological Society of London's Climate Change in Africa, a part of their Communicating Science series.

Lydia Cole presented at two universities in the USA

Submitted by Emma Burnett on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 10:36

Lydia Cole gave a presentation entitled "Probing the peat: An investigation into the resilience of tropical peatswamp forests" at the University of Pennsylvania, Ecology Group lunchtime seminar, Zoology Department, in February 2011. She also presented a poster at the Annual Conference of the International Society of Tropical Foresters, at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, New Haven, in January 2011.

Lecture: Professor Bruce C. Forbes

Submitted by Emma Burnett on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 09:02

Professor Bruce C. Forbes from the Arctic Centre in Finland visited the Long Term Ecology Lab on Tuesday, 8th February and gave a talk entitled 'Land use, climate change and resilience in Nenets social-ecological systems, Arctic Russia'. The talk took place Tuesday, 8th of February, in the Zoology Department, and had an excellent turnout.

Resilience Workshop

Submitted by Emma Burnett on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 21:07

A Resilience Workshop was run from the 17th-18th of January. Run by Professor Kathy Willis and hosted by the Biodiversity Institute, participants of this workshop included ecologists, economists and mathematicians and aimed to address three pressing points regarding resilience in socio-ecological systems:

Prof. Kathy Willis and Dr. Sandra Nogué attended the IBS Conference

Submitted by Emma Burnett on Mon, 01/24/2011 - 15:46