报告题目：Thirty years of research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: what have we learned and what remains to be learned?
主讲人：Michel Loreau 院士
主持人：FANGLIANG HE 教授
报告时间：11月14日 9:30am
报告地点：闵行校区资环楼148室
主办单位：华东师范大学 生态与环境科学学院
报告人简介：
Michel Loreau is currently emeritus researcher at the Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station of the National Centre for Scientific Research in Moulis (France) and adjunct professor at Peking University (China). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a member of the Academia Europaea, an honorary member of the British Ecological Society, and the recipient of numerous scientific awards. Throughout his career, he has strived to establish the theoretical foundations for a new ecological synthesis that integrates the divergent perspectives of community ecology, evolutionary ecology, and ecosystem ecology. Over the past thirty years, his research has focused primarily on the consequences of biodiversity loss for ecosystem functioning, ecosystem stability, and human societies. This new field of research has experienced spectacular growth, to which he has contributed significantly, not only through his scientific work, but also through his responsibilities in numerous national and international initiatives.
报告内容简介：
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (BEF) has been one of the most successful areas of research in recent decades because of its ability to link important basic scientific questions to societal concerns, establish strong links between experimental and theoretical work, and build scientific consensus despite and beyond differences of opinion. After initial controversy, it has provided irrefutable scientific evidence that biodiversity loss affects ecosystem functioning and services, with potentially major long-term consequences for human societies. But BEF research has also changed the way we do science in ecology. In particular, it has opened up entirely new perspectives on the long-standing diversity–stability debate, largely resolving the debate and changing our understanding of the very concept of stability. Recent advances and future challenges in BEF research include (1) building new partitioning frameworks and new experiments to unravel the underlying mechanisms, (2) connecting experimental and observational approaches, and (3) scaling-up BEF research to larger spatial and temporal scales and more complex multitrophic ecosystems to inform policy and management.
