Posted on December 15, 2016
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The British Ecological Society (BES) annual meeting for 2016 has come to an end. It has seemed like a long week (and it is only Thursday) because it has been so action packed. For me it commenced on Sunday when I helped out with…
Category: Meeting, Nick Loughlin, Reports, William GoslingTags: Andes, BES, BES2016, British Ecological Society, carol singers, council, Early Career Researchers, gala dinner, Nick Loughlin, Polylepis, poster, rock-paper-scissors, Special Interest Groups, stabilisation dynamics, Stefano Allesina, Steven Sylvester, Sue Hartley, talk, workshop
Tropical Botany in Belize By Nick Loughlin As mentioned in my last post I have recently returned from a 2 week field course in tropical botany run by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) in conjunction with their MSc course on the ‘Biodiversity and Taxonomy…
Category: Field work, News, Nick Loughlin, ReportsTags: Belize, biodiversity, Botany, Central America, Chiquibul forest reserve, fieldwork, Las Cuevas Research Station, NERC, RBGE, Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Taxonomy, tropics
Posted on February 12, 2015
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Tropical Botany in Belize by Nick Loughlin Getting back to the UK after fieldwork is always jarring and this time is certainly no different, the change from 32°C days walking through the savanna and lowland forests of Belize to the -2°C early mornings walking through snow in…
Category: Field work, News, Nick Loughlin, ReportsTags: Anna Turbelin, Belize, Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants, Botany, Chiquibul forest reserve, Field course, Las Cuevas Research Station, Natural Environments Research Council, NERC, Nick Loughlin, RBGE, Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, tropical
Posted on July 4, 2014
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In the news: First Farmers Were Also Sailors, by Michael Balter in Science. John Bostock: The man who ‘discovered’ hay fever, by Justin Parkinson in BBC News Magazine. DNA study shows yeti is real (sort of) – and Oxford scientist prepares expedition to find it, by Adam…
Category: Encarni Montoya, Nick Loughlin, Reading, William GoslingTags: baselines, Cactaceae, campos rupestres, Coprophilous fungi, DNA, ecology, ecosystem engineer, ecosystem management, farming, Galapagos, Galápagos Islands, giant tortoise, hayfever, hisorty, Lake, Landscape, livestock, megafaunal extinction, microrefugia, Neotropical diversification, palaeodistributional modelling, Pilosocereus, restoration, sediment, shifted, wetlands, yeti
Posted on June 17, 2014
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Ecology of the past contributor Nick Loughlin recently won second place as the “peoples choice” in The Open University research student poster competition. To see other competition entries click here.
Category: News, Nick LoughlinTags: Andean flank, Andes, biodiversity, cloud forest, Ecuador, fossil wood, fungal spores, human impact, macro charcoal, multi-proxy, pollen
Posted on May 9, 2014
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One short story and five scientific papers thinking about different aspects of ecological change through time. Short story: Checkhov, A. (1889) The Pipe SUMMARY (Will): People have long been concerned about environmental change. Observations of phenological shifts, degradation of ecosystem services and climate change are clearly…
Category: Hayley Keen, Nick Loughlin, Phil Jardine, Reading, William GoslingTags: Amazon, Andes, biodiversity, butterfly, carbon storage, Checkhov, Climate change, cloud forest, CO2, Cordillera de Mérida, divergence, ecosystem services, forest, last glacial maximum, LGM, Little Ice Age, Neotropics, phenology, Pleistocene, refugia, The Pipe, Venezuelan
Posted on March 31, 2014
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Nick Loughlin on: Biermann, F. (2014) The Anthropocene: A governance perspective. The Anthropocene Review, 1, 57-61. This comment piece looks at the Anthropocene as a political construct and a tool to constrain the concept of ‘Earth System Governance’ within the social sciences. To quote…
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The Anthropocene: A governance perspective
Posted on March 31, 2014 by nicholasloughlin
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Nick Loughlin on: Biermann, F. (2014) The Anthropocene: A governance perspective. The Anthropocene Review, 1, 57-61. This comment piece looks at the Anthropocene as a political construct and a tool to constrain the concept of ‘Earth System Governance’ within the social sciences. To quote…
Category: Comments, Nick Loughlin, ReadingTags: Anthropocene, Earth System Governance, international relations, political science, Politics, The Anthropocene Review