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
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
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
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
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
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