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Biodiversity Research Seminar Series - Trinity Term 2007
Please Note: This seminar series has finished. For information on our current seminar series please see our Seminar Series.
All seminars will be held in the Boardroom, OUCE, 1-2pm on Wednesdays unless indicated otherwise below. For further information contact Prof. Rob Whittaker.
Week 1: Wednesday 25 April 2007
The Last Wild Sanctuaries: Conservation Planning in Gabon, Central Africa.
Michelle Lee, Zoology Department, Oxford.
Week 2: Wednesday 2 May 2007
Towards a Theory of Extinction.
Professor Adrian Newton, School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University.
Week 3: Wednesday 9 May 2007
Understanding the Decline of the Western Alaskan Steller Sea Lion: Assessing the Evidence Concerning Multiple Hypotheses.
Marc Mangel, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Week 4: Wednesday 16 May 2007
Getting more out of Pollen Diagrams: Recent Developments in Quantitative Reconstruction of Past Landscapes.
Dr Jane Bunting, Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Hull.
Week 5: Wednesday 23 May 2007
Biological Responses to Rapid Climate Change at the Late-Glacial / Holocene Transition: Dynamics, Diversity, Turnover and Rates of Change.
John Birks, University of Bergen.
Week 6: Wednesday 30 May 2007
Species Pool Effects on the Functional Structure of African Mammal Assemblages.
Dr Joaquin Hortal, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London.
Week 7: Wednesday 6 June 2007
To Be Confirmed.
Week 8: Wednesday 13 June 2007