Ecological Complexity and the 6th Extinction - Agenda
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Ecological Complexity and the 6th Extinction
November 2 - 6, 2020 — Zoom
Agenda
Tentative schedule. All times are Mountain Time (MT)
TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE |
Monday, November 2 | |
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9:00-9:15 AM | Ricard Solé | Welcome, Intro & Purpose, Ground Rules |
9:15 - 9:45 AM | Simon Levin | Critical Transitions in Ecological Systems |
9:45 - 10:20 AM | Alan Hastings | Transient dynamics as an important aspect of ecological complexity |
10:20 - 11:00 AM | DISCUSSION | |
Tuesday, November 3 | |
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9:00-9:15 AM | Marten Scheffer | Lost Attraction: How civilizations transform |
9:15 - 9:45 AM | Fernando Maestre | Multiple ecosystem thresholds are driven by aridity and grazing in global drylands |
9:45 - 10:20 AM | Sonia Kefi | Sensing ecosystem resilience |
10:20 - 11:00 AM | DISCUSSION | |
Wednesday, November 4 | |
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9:00-9:15 AM | Elisabeth Hadly | Tipping Points for Planet Earth |
9:15 - 9:45 AM | Stuart Pimm | There is no role for fairy tales in slowing the current rate of extinction |
9:45 - 10:20 AM | Jean-François Bastin | The global tree restoration, its limitations and the way forward |
10:20 - 11:00 AM | DISCUSSION | |
Thursday, November 5 | |
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9:00-9:15 AM | Tim Lenton | Tipping positive change |
9:15 - 9:45 AM | Paolo d’Odorico | Impact of globalization and regionalization on the resilience and sustainability of food production and trade |
9:45 - 10:20 AM | Geoffrey West | Life, growth and death from organisms to cities; are they sustainable? |
10:20 - 11:00 AM | DISCUSSION | |
Friday, November 6 | |
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9:00-9:15 AM | Mercedes Pascual | Hidden thresholds for the loss of coexistence’s building blocks: reflections on a hyperdiverse parasite and frequency-dependent selection |
9:15 - 9:45 AM | Victor de Lorenzo | Synthetic Biology tools for bioremediation at a global scale |
9:45 - 10:20 AM | Gretta Pecl | Science & Technology alone are not enough |
10:20 - 11:00 AM | FINAL DISCUSSION |