Posted on June 27, 2017
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by Crystal McMichael Wimbledon tennis fortnight is on its way, but we’ve had our own palaeoecology fortnight here at the Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam. We’ve seen seminars on reconstructing past landscapes and climates on timescales of decades…
Category: Crystal McMichael, Meeting, News, ReportsTags: BSc, BSc Biology, BSc Future Planet Studies, global warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, Jonathan Overpeck, palaeoclimate, palaeoecology, PhD defence, research projects, seminars, Suzette Flantua, tennis, University of Amsterdam, Wimbledon
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
Posted on February 26, 2016
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European Conference of Tropical Ecology Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 23-26 February 2016 This is my first time attending the European Conference of Tropical Ecology and my second visit to Germany. The conference attracted c. 350 delegates; big enough to have plenty of interesting science, and yet…
Category: Meeting, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: Achim Breuning, agricultural landscapes, Amazon, Amazonia, biogeography, carbon cycles, cartoon, Christina Ani Setyaaningsih, diversity, El Nino Southern Oscillation, ENSO, European Conference of Tropical Ecology, fig wasps, figs, floristic checklists, Freddie Draper, GBIF, georeferencing, Germany, GTO16, GTOe16, Kartika Hapsari, landscape change, Lourens Poorter, Martine Hossaert-McKay, Maximilian Weigend, metabolism, mutualism, Ravi Prabhu, remote sensing, resilience, Richard Corlett, Society for Tropical Ecology, Sue Page, Sumatra, Taxonomy, tropical peatlands, University Erlangen-Nurnberg, University Goettingen, University of Bonn, University of Leeds, vegetation community, volcanoes, Yadvinder Malhi
Posted on February 10, 2016
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Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM) 2016 10 February 2016 Conference Centre “De Werelt”, Lunteren Day 2 of the NAEM breakfast 07:30, first lectures at 08:30… Two keynotes today thinking about ecological stoichiometry the first by Stan Harpole (Martin-Luther-Universitat-Halle-Wittenberg) focused on resource ratio theory, and…
Category: Meeting, Reports, William GoslingTags: 2016, ecological, ecosystem, ecosystem services, Elmar Veenendaal, Fire, forest, Frank van Langevelde, Martin Wassen, Martin-Luther-Universitat-Halle-Wittenberg, NAEM, Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, savanna, savannah, soil, Stan Harpole, stoichiometry, Utrecht University, vegetation, Wageningen University
Posted on February 10, 2016
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Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM) 2016 9 February 2016 Conference Centre “De Werelt”, Lunteren The annual Dutch ecology conference is being held over two days at the in “remote” Lunteren and I am pleased to be able to attend all of the conference this year….
Category: Meeting, Reports, William GoslingTags: 150 years, Bart Knols, biodiversity, cascade effects, Dries Kuijper, ecology, ecosystem, Europe, fear, forest, Haeckel, immunology, Irene Tieleman, Masha van der Sande, Neotropics, parasitism, Peter Hudson, regrowth, scale, science communication, traits, tropcial, Ungulates, wolf, wolves
Posted on December 17, 2015
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I am just back from a fabulous British Ecological Society (BES) annual meeting in Edinburgh. Both the city and the science were interesting and exciting. The Science Slam was certainly my highlight “fringe” event and I believe all the slams will be avaliable to…
Category: Meeting, Reports, William GoslingTags: 2015, Althea Davies, Arcellacea, BES, British Ecological Society, CEH, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, ecology, flamability, Kimberley Simpson, Landscape, palaeoecology, Peak District, pollen, Queen's University Belfast, Rosie Woodroffe, savanna grass, Science slam, SDM, Spatial Distribution Modelling, Stephen Prentice, testate amoebea, University of Sheffield, Zoological Society of London, Zoon project, ZSL
Posted on October 13, 2015
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Palynologendagen “Een historisch-ecologische benadering van het landschap in noord-oost Twente” (“A historical-sociological approach to understanding landscapes in north-east Twente”) 8-9 October 2015 Organized by: Harm Smeenge, Bas van Geel & Stefan Engels For the: Palynologische Kring Last week I took part in my first…
Category: Field work, Meeting, News, Reports, William GoslingTags: Bas van Geel, Een historisch-ecologische benadering van het landschap in noord-oost Twente, Harm Smeenge, Mirella Groot, Palynologendagen, Palynologische Kring, pollen day, Stefan Engels, Twente
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