Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research

CBER Post doc, Caroline Howe, has written a paper entitled 'Elucidating the pathways between climate change, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation' which has been published in the Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

Prof. Kate Jones was recently invited to give a podcast interview with the Guardian. Kate discusses the recent TEDx conference which she presented at and about the science involved in bringing back extinct species.

Professor Kate Jones recently gave a talk at TEDxDeExtinction, watch the whole talk of Kate's talk below. For more talks from this TEDx event please visit the organiser's website;

Ben Collen has joined CBER as a lecturer.  Ben completed a PhD at Imperial College London on vertebrate extinction risk before taking up a post doc at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, where he went on to become a Research Fellow, and Head of the Indicators & Assessments Unit.

Dr Ben Collen has today had published a book which he edited, entitled: Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gap Between Global Commitment and Local Action (Conservation Science and Practice)

Professor Georgina Mace is one author on a perspective in PLoS Biology “Synthetic Biology and Conservation of Nature: Wicked Problems and Wicked Solutions”. This is an Editor’s pick, and already has 68 ‘social shares’ and over 3,500 views!

Professor Georgina Mace gives a public lecture on the topic “A Planet and its people under pressure" at the opening of the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI).  

Georgina Mace and colleagues warmly welcome Mr Christopher Langridge as the new CBER Administrator, who joined on 18 March 2013.

To investigate the build-up of diversity in a tropical aquatic continental radiation, Julia Day and colleagues tested different models of lineage diversification with a broad distribution across all major tropical African drainage basins.

IPBES (the news Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) held its first plenary meeting in Bonn, Germany (http://www.ipbes.net/) from January 21 to 26^th. Georgina Mace attended as a member of the ICSU delegation and presented the work on a draft conceptual framework for IPBES.

Paper on methods for scaling up predator-prey dynamics co-authored by David Murrell and Frédéric Barraquand recently accepted.

Richard Pearson will join GEE as a lecturer in June 2013, though he will be working in the department prior to his official start date.  He is currently Director of the Biodiversity Informatics Research at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.  Richard works on phylogenetic aspects of biodiversity and conservation, with a special interest in Madagascan reptiles and amphibians, and he studies the relationship between ecological niches and geographic distributions, and the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. He has recently written a book, ‘Driven to Extinction: The Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity'.

If you have an interest in the new Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research or anything related to it, Georgina Mace would welcome seeing you at the planning/discussion meetings, usually held on the first Friday of each month, from 1 – 2pm in the Darwin Building meeting room 114.

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