WHO?: Dr. DAVID NOGUÉS-BRAVO (Museum Natural History Denmark, University of Copenhagen)
WHAT?: PaleoTime machines to unveil the future of biodiversity
WHEN?: Friday 10/11/2017 – 12:30 h
WHERE?: Seminar room ICBiBE - SS6 (lower-ground floor, Institutes building)
ABSTRACT:
Ecologists are increasingly interested in understanding how biological
diversity will respond to climate change. Past biodiversity dynamics recorded in paleo-archives show a broad array of responses, including tolerance, microevolution, migration, and extinction, occurring across a broad range of taxonomic, temporal and spatial scales. However, this knowledge is fragmented within disciplinary and scale boundaries. I will outline cross-disciplinary approaches that will better apprehend the mechanisms allowing species to survive, facilitating prediction of changes in future biological diversity. I will also provide study cases of my recent research (from woolly mammoths to H. sapiens sapiens) to illustrate how analyzing past biodiversity responses to climate change will increase our ability to anticipate responses of biological diversity to global warming.
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