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14

Sep

Symposium: Human disturbances and biodiversity

14 September 2023 10:00 to 12:00 | Seminar
Black tit in the front with an urban area and holk on a tree in the back. Painting.

The symposium will cover a range of topics related to human disturbances and biodiversity - ranging from plants, insects to birds and mammals.

The Symposium will serve as a pre-symposium of Johan Kjellberg Jensen's doctoral thesis defence that occurs the 15th of September.

Program

10.00 Welcome and introduction -Caroline Isaksson

10.15 Presentations by
1.    Leveraging the power of birds for strategic conservation in a human-dominated world. - Prof Amanda Rodewald (Cornell University/ United states)
2.    Eco-evolutionary responses to climate and community change in a highly politypic bird - Prof Peter Arcese (University of British Colombia/ Canada)
3.    Birds and people: the impacts and challenges of bird feeding. - Dr Kate Plummer (British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and affiliated with Exeter University/UK)
4.    Urbanisation and its effects on pollinators and pollination - Ass Prof Panagiotis Theodorou (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg/Germany)
5.    Pollinators, urban form and green spaces - Dr Anna Persson (Lund University)

12.00 End


Johan Kjellberg Jensen will defend his thesis on 15 September, on the topic "Understanding the urban ecosystem - interactions between plants, animals, and people."

Link to Johan Kjellberg Jensen's defence - cec.lu.se

About the event

Location:

Red hall, Sölvegatan, Ecologybuilding, Lund

Contact:

caroline [dot] isaksson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se