Jane Applegarth

University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment

Events this person is organising:

Friday 19 February 2016

16:15 - Film screening: I am Chut Wutty
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE POSTPONED AND A NEW DATE WILL BE ARRANGED FOR LATER IN THE YEAR
TBA
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 April 2016

16:15 - Something's rotten: Multiple views into how wood rots
Amy Zanne (George Washington University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 6 May 2016

16:15 - The Scale Property of Tropical Forest Disturbances
Dr Fernando Espírito-Santo (University of Lancaster)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 27 May 2016

16:15 - Brazilian Protected Areas: assessment and prospect
Sergio H C Carvalho (Ministry of the Environment, Brazil)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 3 June 2016

16:15 - Development Without Destruction: Scientists, NGOs, and indigenous activists chart a sustainable alternative to mega-dams in Malaysian, Borneo
Joe Lamb (The Borneo Project)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 10 June 2016

16:15 - What controls sensitivity to drought-induced mortality in tropical forests?
Dr Lucy Rowland (University of Exeter)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 22 June 2016

16:15 - The Verified Conservation Area Approach
Frank Vorhies (Earthmind)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 July 2016

16:15 - Variation of climate and ecosystem properties along an elevation gradient in Ecuador
Professor Jorg Bendix (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany), Dr Jurgen Homeier (Georg-August-Universität, Gottingen)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 19 September 2016

16:15 - Humans are at the centre. But at the centre of what? A new anthropocentrism for the Anthropocene
Clive Hamilton (Charles Sturt University, Canberra)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 21 October 2016

16:15 - Rethinking Ancient Woodland
Dr Gerry Barnes (University of East Anglia)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 November 2016

16:15 - Wallace’s ARCs – identifying refugia for biodiversity under climate changes of 1.5° - 7°C
POSTPONED - please note that this seminar has been postponed due to speaker illness. A new date will be scheduled as soon as possible.
Dr Jeff Price (University of East Anglia)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 10 November 2016

16:30 - Living Root Bridge Ecosystems of India
Sanjeev Shankar
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 November 2016

16:15 - Madagascar’s orphans of extinction
Wolfgang Stuppy (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 18 November 2016

16:15 - Exploring the mechanisms by which ancient forests interact with the environment
Dr Sandra Nogué (University of Southampton)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 November 2016

16:15 - Integrating Discourse and Practice in Nature Rights and Natural Resources Management: Challenges and Opportunities in Bolivia
Dr Bernardo Peredo
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 1 December 2016

16:15 - Climate change and catastrophic Amazon die-back – genuine threat or crying wolf?
Dr Richard Betts (Met Office)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 9 January 2017

16:00 - The Island Digital Ecosystem Avatar (IDEA) Consortium: Simulating Coral Reefs, Mosquito-borne Diseases, and other Coupled Natural-Human Interactions
Neil Davies (University of California Berkeley)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 27 January 2017

16:15 - Dynamics of tropical vegetation transitions under global change
Dr Imma Oliveras (ECI, University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 17 February 2017

16:15 - Report from the Frontier: securing forest peoples’ rights to curb tropical deforestation
Dr Marcus Colchester (Forest Peoples Programme)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 22 February 2017

16:15 - Biomass recovery and carbon mitigation potential in regenerating Neotropical forests following agricultural land use
Robin L Chazdon (University of Connecticut)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 3 March 2017

16:15 - Symbiotic nitrogen fixation and the tropical carbon sink
Dr Sarah Batterman (University of Leeds)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 24 March 2017

16:15 - Setting conservation priorities in Indonesian New Guinea
Dr Rodrigo Camara Leret (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 31 March 2017

16:15 - Holocene climate change and the domestication of SW Amazonia
Prof Frank Mayle (University of Reading)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 11 April 2017

16:15 - Moths, Mountains and Canopy Cranes: or, how to keep busy in your declining years!
Roger Kitching (Griffith University, Australia)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 28 April 2017

16:15 - Droughts and woody plants: Safety, efficiency and whole-plant economics
Prof Maurizio Mencuccini (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 5 May 2017

16:15 - Developing predictive trait-based scaling theory applied to forests that span broad temperature gradients
Dr Brian Enquist (University of Arizona)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 12 May 2017

16:15 - Shifting from a fertilization-dominated to a warming-dominated period: processes involved. The case for the Tropical forests
Prof Josep Penuelas (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 May 2017

16:15 - Nature's contributions to people: a pluralistic approach to the societal benefits of biodiversity
Prof Sandra Diaz (Co-Chair of the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 22 May 2017

16:15 - The shaping of savannas: fire versus the mammalian megafauna
Emeritus Professor William Bond (University of Capetown)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 2 June 2017

16:15 - Why does structure matter for forest productivity
Dr Alexander Shenkin (ECI, University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 15 June 2017

15:00 - Fire interactions with climate, deforestation and forest fragmentation in NW Amazonia
Dr Dolors Armenteras (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 21 June 2017

08:30 - Forest Defenders Conference
Prof John Knox (United Nations Human Rights), Sir Ian Redmond (The Ape Alliance), Claudelice da Silva (Forest Defender), Ouch Leng (Cambodian Human Rights Task Force), Justino Sa (National Assembly of Guinea-Bissau), Dr Constance McDermott (University of Oxford), John Vidal (The Guardian), Marie Manson (Civil Rights Defenders), Billy Kyte (Global Witness), Fiachra Kearney (Epsilar Group), Richard Rogers (Global Diligence), Marc Limon (Universal Rights Group)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 11 October 2017

16:15 - Doughnut Economics: How to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
SOLD OUT
Kate Raworth (Environmental Change Institute)
ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Wednesday 18 October 2017

16:15 - Big History: Humans and their Environment
Sir Crispen Tickell (University of Oxford)
ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Friday 20 October 2017

16:15 - Operationalizing REDD+: examples of REDD+ design and implementation in Cameroon
Sophia Carodenuto (UNIQUE forestry and land use)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 25 October 2017

16:15 - Transformation for All - Implementing the Agenda 2030 in Germany from a Practical Policy Perspective
Dr. Joerg Mayer-Ries
ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Friday 27 October 2017

16:15 - Using grasses to puzzle out ancient Madagascar, and debunking 6 misleading stories
Dr Maria Vorontsova (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 3 November 2017

16:15 - C4 photosynthesis: from leaf evolution to global ecology
Prof Colin Osborne (University of Sheffield)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 8 November 2017

16:15 - Culture's role in hazard and climate change risk: worldviews, belief systems and 'alternative facts'
Dr Lisa Schipper (Overseas Development Institute)
ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Friday 10 November 2017

16:15 - Are past human activities related to observed biodiversity and carbon dynamics in Amazonian forests?
Crystal Mcmichael, PhD (University of Amsterdam)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 17 November 2017

16:15 - Governing Amazonia: Power, Politics, and Contested Landscapes
Dr Mary Menton (University of Birmingham)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 23 November 2017

16:15 - Supply chain ‘no deforestation’ commitments: plugging the implementation gap
Mike Senior (Proforest)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 24 November 2017

16:15 - The recovery of Murchison Falls
Michael Keigwin (Uganda Conservation Foundation)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 December 2017

16:15 - Innovations in financing conservation
Adam Gibbon (Althelia Ecosphere)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 January 2018

16:15 - The effects of warming on the performance of tropical trees, from minutes to centuries
Martijn Slot (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 26 January 2018

16:15 - Biofuel Energy, Capital Time, and the Destruction of Borneo: An Ethical Perspective
Professor Michael Northcott (University of Edinburgh)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 9 February 2018

16:15 - Interrogating the governance landscape of mangrove forests in Kenya and Zanzibar: implications of complexity and fragmentation
Dr Fiona Nunan (University of Birmingham)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 16 February 2018

17:00 - Surviving the Anthropocene: a story of biological gains as well as losses
Professor Chris D Thomas (University of York)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 23 February 2018

16:15 - Bold retention targets now needed for effective biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene
James Watson (Wildlife Conservation Society)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 2 March 2018

16:15 - POSTPONED: Historical fire in Amazonia: charcoal, forest composition, and functional traits
POSTPONED until next term, new date tbc
Dr Ted Feldpausch (University of Exeter)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 9 March 2018

16:15 - Congo's hidden peatlands
Prof Simon Lewis (University College London)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 May 2018

16:15 - A semantic web for sustainability: Revolutionizing how we write, find, link and reuse data and models
Prof Ferdinando Villa (Basque Centre for Climate Change), Dr Stefano Balbi (Basque Centre for Climate Change)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 May 2018

16:15 - Seeing the wood for the trees in the methane cycle: Insights from forests in South and Central America, Indonesia and beyond
Prof Vincent Gauci (Open University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 18 May 2018

16:15 - Entangled territorialities on the fringe of development: an investigation on riverine peoples of the “Terra do Meio” and the impacts of the Belo Monte dam in the state of Para, Brazilian Amazon
Maíra B. Fainguelernt (NEPAM/UNICAMP, Brazil)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 May 2018

16:15 - Assisted natural forest regeneration: How polyculture in degraded rainforest can restore the landscape, biodiversity and create sustainable income for local and indigenous people
Jake Backus (Empathy Sustainability), I. Madé Setiawan
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 June 2018

16:15 - Factors for success in developing a REDD+ project in the Chyulu Hills landscape of southern Kenya and its integration into a model for long-term conservation financing through multiple ecosystem payments
Dr Chris Tuite (Conservational International)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 8 June 2018

16:15 - Exploring the role and diversity of mycorrhizal fungi in tropical forests
Dr Francis Brearley (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 11 June 2018

16:15 - Stability and Resilience of Tropical Biomes
Prof Carla Staver (Yale University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 June 2018

16:15 - Life-history strategy schemes in consumer-controlled grassy ecosystems
Associate Prof Sally Archibald (University of the Witwatersrand)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 22 June 2018

16:15 - Forests and water: advances and controversies
Prof Douglas Sheil (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 18 October 2018

17:00 - CANCELLED - Panel Discussion: Implications of the Brazilian elections for Brazil’s environmental institutions
CANCELLED
Dr Paul Jepson (School of Geography and the Environment), Prof Timothy Power (University of Oxford), Sergio Carvalho (University of Oxford), Dr Erika Berenguer (University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 25 October 2018

16:15 - Tropical Forests in the Earth System
Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 2 November 2018

13:00 - How to map the changing carbon stocks of the world's tropical forests
Dr Edward Mitchard (University of Edinburgh)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 9 November 2018

16:15 - Borneo’s tropical forests: carbon sink, vulnerabilities and potential edge resilience enhancement
Dr Lan Qie (Imperial College London)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 16 November 2018

16:15 - Nature conservation amidst violent conflict: guerrilla livelihoods and armed mobilization in Virunga National Park, eastern DRC
Dr Judith Verweijen (University of Sussex)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 23 November 2018

16:15 - Tropical Rainforests: Example of conservation success
Tony Juniper (WWF)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 January 2019

16:15 - Vulnerability and resilience of Tropical Andean biodiversity to climate change
Carolina Tovar, PhD (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 February 2019

16:15 - Achieving equity in the context of protected areas
Dr Kate Schreckenberg (King's College London)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 8 February 2019

16:15 - CANCELLED - Inter- and intra-specific variation in tropical canopy phenology: Insights from field data and images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
CANCELLED
Dr Stephanie Bohnman (University of Florida)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 February 2019

16:15 - The tropical peat swamps of Southeast Asia - carbon, conflict and compromise
Prof Susan Page (University of Leicester)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 18 February 2019

16:00 - Agriculture and Sustainability in Brazil: The Challenges of Meat and Media
Myanna Lahsen, PhD (University of Wageningen)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 22 February 2019

16:15 - Historical fire in Amazonia: charcoal, soil, and plant functional traits
Dr Ted Feldpausch (University of Exeter)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 March 2019

16:15 - Opportunities and challenges on the application of REDD+ and similar funds to tropical forest conservation
Dr Tom Martin (Operation Wallacea)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 25 March 2019

16:15 - Infrastructure Tsunami, China’s Belt & Road, and the World’s Rarest Ape
William Laurance, PhD (James Cook University, Cairns, Australia)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 4 April 2019

16:15 - The state-of-knowledge on the mechanisms driving mortality in moist tropical forests
Nate McDowell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 3 May 2019

16:15 - Restructuring of biodiversity in the Anthropocene under habitat loss and climate change
Dr Tim Newbold (UCL)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 17 May 2019

16:15 - Inter- and intra-specific variation in tropical canopy phenology: Insights from field data and images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Dr Stephanie Bohnman (University of Florida)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 23 May 2019

16:15 - Bridging avian biodiversity shortfalls in the Neotropics
TBA
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 24 May 2019

12:00 - Improving plant allometry by fusing forest models and remote sensing
Jerome Chave PhD (UPS Toulouse)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 31 May 2019

16:15 - Deconstructing Compensation: Benefit-sharing and co-dependency between oil companies and indigenous communities in Russia and Alaska
Maria Tysiachniouk (Durham University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 7 June 2019

16:15 - The phylogeographic structure of tropical plant communities and populations – insights on environmental filtering, dispersal limitation and biogeographic barriers
Olivier Hardy PhD (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 14 June 2019

16:15 - Inside a tropical montane forest: Understanding patterns of plant diversity and ecosystem functioning across the Andes
Luis Cayuela Delgado (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 21 June 2019

15:30 - Leaf temperatures in tropical forests: what do we know and why is it important?
Sophie Fauset (University of Plymouth)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 October 2019

16:15 - Functional trait differences and the mechanisms structuring diverse communities
Dr Claire Fortunel (UMR AMAP, France)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 October 2019

16:15 - Nutrient limitation in tropical forests: what we know, what we don’t know, what we really need to know
Prof James Dalling (University of Illinois)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 8 November 2019

16:15 - Amazon forest responses to drought: scaling from individuals to ecosystems
Dr Scott Saleska (University of Arizona)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 November 2019

16:15 - An optimistic vision for a sustainable, wild, and socially just world
Prof E.J. Milner-Gulland (University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 22 November 2019

16:15 - Taking a landscape perspective on social and ecological resilience
Dr Alexandra Morel (University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 November 2019

16:15 - POSTPONED: Lessons from intensifying agriculture
PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED, A NEW DATE WILL BE ARRANGED FOR NEXT TERM
Dr Barbara Smith (Coventry University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 6 December 2019

16:15 - Towards a better understanding of why and how plants became woody during evolutionary history
Dr Frederic Lens (Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 31 January 2020

17:45 - People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon
John Hemming (Author and explorer)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 7 February 2020

16:15 - Lessons from intensifying agriculture
Dr Barbara Smith (Coventry University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 14 February 2020

16:15 - Global changes and the challenge of sustainable development: how is nitrogen enrichment affecting ecosystem functioning and services?
Luísa G. Carvalheiro, PhD (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 28 February 2020

16:15 - Have the Lungs of our Planet been pushed to their limits?
Dr Wannes Hubau (Ghent University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 6 March 2020

16:15 - Climate change risk of tropical forests across spatial, temporal and biological scales
TBA
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 13 March 2020

16:15 - CANCELLED: Tackling cocoa-led deforestation in West Africa - film screening and Q&A
Please note that this event has now been cancelled.
Bastien Sachet (Earthworm Foundation)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 20 March 2020

16:15 - CANCELLED: Deforestation is just the start – the full climate impact of losing intact forest landscapes
This talk has now been cancelled.
Tom Evans, PhD (Wildlife Conservation Society)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 27 March 2020

16:15 - Defaunation and trophic cascading in the Anthropocene: ecological erosion in the tropics
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Dr Ana Benitez (The Integrative Ecology Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC))
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 5 June 2020

16:00 - Deforestation is just the start – the full climate impact of losing intact forest landscapes
Tom Evans PhD (Wildlife Conservation Society)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 June 2020

16:00 - Estimating the global carbon sink due to forest demography
Dr Thomas Pugh (University of Birmingham)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 25 June 2020

16:00 - Impacts of large herbivores in closed-canopy tropical forests
TBA
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 17 July 2020

16:00 - Mythbusting forests
Online joining details will be emailed with booking confirmation.
Prof William Bond (University of Cape Town)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 September 2020

17:15 - Disaster developmentalism, flailing states, the commodity consensus and the Amazon safety valve
Dr Susanna Hecht (UCLA)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 2 October 2020

16:00 - Can tropical forests keep up with climate change?
Richard T Corlett (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 9 October 2020

16:00 - ECOSTRESS: NASA’s next generation mission to measure evapotranspiration from the International Space Station
Dr Joshua Fisher (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 13 October 2020

16:30 - Navigating the Anthropocene
This seminar will take place online. Please register to receive joining instructions.
Prof Ruth Defries (Columbia University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 23 October 2020

16:00 - Evolutionary and Ecological Biome Switches at Tropical Savanna-Forest Boundaries
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Prof William Hoffmann (North Carolina State University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 30 October 2020

16:00 - Closing the gaps in restoration science, policy and practice
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Dr Robin Chazdon (World Resources Institute)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 6 November 2020

14:00 - The ecophysiology of Australian tropical rainforests
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Associate Professor Lucas Cernusak (James Cook University, Australia)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 13 November 2020

16:00 - Untangling the History of Neotropical Biodiversity: The Big Picture
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Prof Lúcia Lohmann (University of São Paulo)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 20 November 2020

16:00 - The truth about nature: Environmentalism in the era of post-truth politics and platform capitalism
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Prof. Dr. Bram Büscher (Wageningen University & Research)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 27 November 2020

16:00 - Untangling the mystery of the ancient shola forest-grassland ecosystems of India
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Jayashree Ratnam (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 December 2020

16:00 - Forest Biomass Estimation from space – new estimates, current challenges, and future opportunities
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Prof Laura Duncanson (University of Maryland)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 December 2020

16:00 - Megafauna history and biome ecology in South America
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Prof. Dr. Vinícius de Lima Dantas (Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 January 2021

16:00 - Understanding dimensions and implications of legal trade in wildlife
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Alice C Hughes (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 22 January 2021

16:00 - Equity & Equitable Access Issues in Forest Certification Systems & Other Accountability Tools
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Richard Donovan (Independent forest advisor)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 January 2021

16:00 - Fruit Famine and Hungry Elephants in Central Africa
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Dr Emma Bush (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 5 February 2021

16:00 - Woody encroachment as a symptom of global change
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Dr Nicola Stevens (Trapnell Fellow for African Environments, University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 February 2021

16:00 - 'Green Deserts' to 'Forests of Plenty': An Archaeology of Tropical Forests
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Dr Patrick Roberts (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 26 February 2021

16:00 - Frugivory and seed dispersal: insights from Madagascar's biodiverse ecosystems
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Prof Onja Razafindratsima (UC Berkeley)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 5 March 2021

16:00 - Just add water: structure and function of seasonally dry tropical forests
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Prof Jennifer Powers (University of Minnesota)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 12 March 2021

16:00 - Puzzle pieces or poker chips? What people bring to the table in “multistakeholder” processes
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Dr Anne Larson (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 March 2021

16:00 - Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2
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Dr Anthony Walker (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 26 March 2021

16:00 - Hyperdominance and hyperdiversity in the Amazon Tree Flora
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Prof Dr Hans ter Steege (Naturalis)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 23 April 2021

16:00 - Transparency and sustainability in global supply chains
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Toby Gardner (Stockholm Environment Institute)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 30 April 2021

16:00 - Reforestation as a natural climate solution
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Susan Cook-Patton, PhD (The Nature Conservancy)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 14 May 2021

16:00 - Taking the temperature and measuring health status of endangered and threatened rainforest – Is it serious Doc?
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Prof Pierre-Michel Forget (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 21 May 2021

16:00 - Understanding agricultural frontiers emergence in Southern and Eastern Africa: an interdisciplinary approach combining ethnography, remote sensing and decision-making models
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Patrick Meyfroidt, PhD (UCLouvain)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 28 May 2021

16:00 - Conservation beyond state-owned protected areas in southern Africa
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Dr Hayley Clements (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 June 2021

16:00 - Integrated spatial planning for multi-functional landscapes
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Dr Piero Visconti (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 June 2021

16:00 - Amazon tree dominance across forest strata
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Dr Frederick Draper (Arizona State University/University of Leeds)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 18 June 2021

16:00 - The Role of Africa’s Tropical Forests in the Deep Human Past
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Eleanor Scerri, PhD (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 June 2021

16:00 - Extinction and evolution of early Neotropical rainforests
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Mónica R. Carvalho, PhD (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute · Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archaeology (CTPA))
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 2 July 2021

16:00 - The ecology of central African forests: insights from massive commercial datasets
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Maxime Réjou-Méchain, PhD (AMAP Lab, Montpellier)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 16 July 2021

16:00 - Pre-Columbian landuse and legacy effects in Amazonia
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Prof Mark Bush (Institute for Global Ecology, Florida Institute of Technology)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 23 July 2021

16:00 - What to plant, when and where – Restoring tropical landscapes for biodiversity and human wellbeing
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Dr Marion Pfeifer (Newcastle University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 8 October 2021

16:00 - Meltdown of trophic cascades?
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Katerina Sam, PhD (Entomology Institute of Biology Centre of CAS, Czechia)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 15 October 2021

16:00 - The trouble with nature
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Professor Sandra Díaz ForMemRS (Córdoba National University)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 22 October 2021

16:00 - Defaunation and trophic cascading in the Anthropocene: ecological erosion in the tropics
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Ana Benítez-López, PhD (Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD‐CSIC))
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 October 2021

16:00 - High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests
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Dr Aida Cuni-Sanchez (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 12 November 2021

16:00 - Deforestation and fire in the Brazilian Amazon: strategies to reduce this chronic emergency
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Ane Alencar, PhD (IPAM Amazonia)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 19 November 2021

16:00 - Seeing like a Deforester: Settler Taxonomies of Vegetation in the Brazilian Amazon
We hope to run this seminar as a hybrid event with the choice of attending in person at the Oxford Martin School (followed by drinks at the King’s Arms), or joining online via Zoom.
Jeffrey Hoelle (University of California)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 26 November 2021

16:00 - Forest restoration and nature-based climate solutions frequently fail because they are not grounded in social science
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Forrest Fleishmann, PhD (University of Minnesota)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 3 December 2021

16:00 - Is forest management really a tool for the conservation of tropical forests ? A forest ecologist's perspective
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Plinio Sist (CIRAD)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 February 2022

16:00 - Effectiveness-equity tensions in efforts to achieve zero-deforestation in the tropics through corporate supply chain policies
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Dr Rachael Garrett (ETH Zurich)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 11 February 2022

16:00 - Modeling future deforestation and REDD+ in the Congo Basin: some lessons learnt
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Aline Mosnier (FABLE Consortium, UN Sustainable Solutions Development Network)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 18 February 2022

16:15 - Results based payments and REDD+ safeguards: Challenges for demonstrating and verifying the social and environmental integrity of Verified Emission Reductions at national and jurisdictional scale
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Daniela Rey Christen (Climate Law and Policy)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 February 2022

16:00 - Forests in a changing world: narratives, responses, and outcomes
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Pablo Pacheco, PhD (WWF)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 4 March 2022

16:00 - Earth history coupled with eco-evolutionary processes explains the uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests
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Dr Oskar Hagen (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 18 March 2022

16:15 - Shifting disturbance regimes and the lessons to be learned from forests on the edge
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Dr Adam Pellegrini (University of Cambridge)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 25 March 2022

16:15 - Forest dynamics in a changing world
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Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert (University of Birmingham)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 29 April 2022

16:15 - Tropical plant diversity, biogeography and conservation: a multi-biome approach
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Prof Toby Pennington (University of Exeter)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 6 May 2022

16:00 - Social and ecological consequences of land use intensification in African woodlands
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Dr Casey Ryan (University of Edinburgh)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 20 May 2022

17:00 - Should we focus on making soy supply chains more transparent and sustainable? A political ecology critique of neo-Malthusianism and Eco-Modernization Theory
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Dr. Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira (University of California, Irvine)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 27 May 2022

16:15 - Global drivers of tree crown architecture
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Dr Tommaso Jucker (University of Bristol)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests