讲座简介：

Forests harbour the majority of biodiversity and provide critical services to humankind, yet these are under increasing stress from global change. We will first consider the impacts of deforestation on biodiversity and how the spatial scale at which we quantify those impacts can alter the severity of loss. We will then focus on some of the core risks to forest-derived ecosystem services and how those may be mitigated.

主讲人简介：

David Edwards is Professor of Plant Ecology (2000) and the founding Director of the Centre for Global Wood Security at the University of Cambridge. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Current Biology. Over the last two decades his research has primarily focused on understanding the responses of forest-based biodiversity and ecosystem services to global change, including selective logging, conversion to farmland, and restoration. His research combines intensive field study, with remote sensing, global mapping, and land-use modelling, to tackle key questions in forest ecology, management, and conservation, with a focus on issues of global policy significance. He has worked extensively across tropical forest ecosystems, including the Andes, Amazon, West Africa, southern African miombo, Himalaya, Indochina, and insular South-east Asia, but also take a fully global-scale perspective in identifying threats to forestry.