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SUMMARY:Rainforest resilience
DESCRIPTION:The lecture is free to attend and open to all\, but registratio
 n is required in advance\nAbstract:\nTropical rainforests are “more comp
 lex than the space station and more connected than the internet.” Yet th
 ey are under threat. Roughly one half of the world’s forests have been l
 ogged and agricultural expansion is rapidly pushing back forest frontiers.
  Understanding and predicting the fate of the many thousands of species in
  these remarkable habitats represents one of ecology’s greatest challeng
 es.\nNew research is finding that damaged rainforests retain remarkable st
 ores of biodiversity and are surprisingly resilient ecosystems. But that r
 esilience comes at a cost. Insects are losing their dominant position in t
 he web of life\, and time lags between human actions and their ecosystem c
 onsequences mean that our actions today will resonate for decades to come.
 \nBiography:\nRob Ewers is Professor of Ecology at Imperial College London
 . In his inaugural lecture he will discuss the impacts of logging and agri
 cultural expansion on tropical ecosystems\, and examine ways to minimise t
 he environmental legacy arising from today’s decisions.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/98917/rainforest-resilience/
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