Maintaining healthy environments at a time of climate change and increasing population pressure
Lecture by Prof Ary Hoffman
Monday 8 September 2008
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Theatre, Elisabeth Murdoch Building
(Building 134, behind the Ian Potter Gallery), Parkville Campus
Wheelchair accessible
Many of the animals and plants in our natural, agricultural and urban environments are coming under a high level of stress. How will plants and animals cope with climate change and increasingly fragmented landscapes as population pressures increase? Are we entering a period of irreversible mass extinction, when more than 90% of all our animals and plants will disappear? Will our urban and rural environments become biodiversity deserts, dominated by a few common invasive imports and local species? What steps might we take now to preserve biodiversity and resilience in species and in ecosystems? In this talk Prof Hoffman considers these questions, and tries to provide some answers, based on the results of recent research from his own group and other scientists.
Prof Ary Hoffman is a Federation Fellow, and heads a research group in Bio21 focussing on environmental stress.
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