Oxford Biodiversity Network Seminars
 

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2023

• Nature is Culture: The Deep Global History & Transformative Future of Nature-Sustaining Landscapes. - Erle Ellis

• Can we have it all from the land? - Dustin Benton, Green Alliance

• Fishing for Nutrition: Healthy Oceans for People and Planet - Christina Hicks

• Rewilding European landscapes: lessons learned and future directions for science and practice - Sophie Monsarrat, Rewilding Europe

• Rewilding, Restoration, and the Future of Nature Recovery - James Bullock

• 40 years of conservation in Sabah - Glyn Davies

• Connected Conservation: rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world - Rachel Carmenta

• A future for nature: Quantitative perspectives on land & biodiversity under global change-Tom Harwood

• Quantifying & predicting resilience from individuals, to populations, to whole communities - Rob Salguero

• Climate change and nature recovery: from global thinking to local action - ​Mike Morecroft

• The Jewel Box: How moths illuminate nature’s hidden rules - ​Tim Blackburn

• Biodiversity Net Gain discussion - Sophus zu Ermgassen

• The new Global Biodiversity Framework: the good, the bad and the narratives - Sandra Diaz

• Phantom credits: why rainforests offsets are not working. - Patrick Greenfield

• The search for a healthy environment. - ​Michael Depledge

• Rewildling, we can't live without it. - Charlie Burrell

• Addicted to growth: Societal Therapy for a Sustainable Wellbeing Future - Robert Costanza

• The recovery of ecosystem complexity in a changing environment - David Moreno Mateos

• In search of the holy grail – the one true biodiversity metric - E.J. Milner-Gulland

• A virtual rainforest - Robert Ewers

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2022

• ​The Lost Rainforests of Britain - Guy Shrubsole

• Cities in Nature: Transforming Singapore into a City in Nature. - Lena Chan

• Changes in the Great Plains as indicated by insect ecological responses -Ellen Welti

• Prescribing nature for human health - Kathy Willis

• CResults based payments and REDD+ safeguards: Challenges for demonstrating and verifying the social and environmental integrity of Verified Emission Reductions at jurisdictional scale- Daniela Rey Christen

• Conservation under rapid climatic changes: the case for rewilding - Nathalie Pettorelli

• Coral reef spatial resilience: geo-ecological perspectives of coastal risks. Antoine Collin

• Conservation in the Climate Emergency. Dr. Charlie Gardner

• The Critical Case for Reforming Land-Based Carbon Accounting - Tim Searchinger

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2020

Please click on each title to access the seminars (YouTube):  

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• The truth about nature: Environmentalism in the era of post-truth politics and platform capitalism - Bram Büscher
  20th November 2020 - OCTF Seminar

• The ecophysiology of Australian tropical rainforests - Lucas Cernusak
  6th November 2020 - OCTF Seminar

• Closing the Gaps in Restoration Science, Policy and Practice - Robin Chazdon
  30th October 2020  - OCTF Seminar

• Evolutionary and Ecological Biome Switches at Tropical Savanna-Forest Boundaries -Bill Hoffmann
  23rd October 2020 - OCTF Seminar

• Navigating the Anthropocene - Ruth DeFries
  13th October 2020 - OCTF Seminar

• ECOSTRESS: NASA’s next generation mission to measure evapotranspiration from the International Space Station - Josh Fisher
  9th October 2020 - OCTF Seminar

• Can tropical forests keep up with climate change? - Richard Corlett
  2nd October 2020 - OCTF Seminar

• Disaster developmentalism, flailing states, the commodity consensus and the Amazon safety valve - Susanna Hecht
  25th September 2020 - OCTF Seminar

• Mythbusting forests - William Bond
  17th July 2020 - OCTF Seminar

• Impacts of large herbivores in closed-canopy tropical forests - John Terborgh
  25th June 2020 - OCTF Seminar

• Soil carbon and microbial ecology along an Amazon-Andes transect - Patrick Meir
  Andes-Amazon Seminar Series

• Prehistoric Ecology of the Peruvian Andes-Amazon - Mark Bush
  Andes-Amazon Seminar Series

• How are Andean-Amazonian Forests Responding to Warming? - William Farfan
  Andes-Amazon Seminar Series

• Social-Ecological Challenges and Opportunities of the Anthropocene - Erle Ellis