CBER External Seminar
CBER External Seminar on ‘Towards a Systems Understanding of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning under Land-Use Pressure’
Hello everyone,
On Wednesday 7th May 2025, at 3-4pm, Prof Ralf Seppelt, Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems, Luxembourg University, will be visiting Tim Newbold and giving a CBER External Seminar on ‘Towards a Systems Understanding of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning under Land-Use Pressure’
The seminar will be held in G46 H O Schild Pharmacology LT in Medical Sciences and Anatomy.
For those at UCL East, there will be a live screening of the lecture in 1 Pool Street, Room 219B. You can also join us remotely via the Teams link below.
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ODcwMDVmMWUtOWQyNi00MzI2LTk4OGItN2I5ZWQwZjEwOTc0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%221faf88fe-a998-4c5b-93c9-210a11d9a5c2%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%221e61640f-f12d-435f-a74e-a8564521523a%22%7d
We look forward to seeing you in person at Bloomsbury and East or online.
Please note the later than usual time for this seminar (3-4pm).
Host: Tim Newbold
Abstract: It is a well-established fact that biodiversity underpins stable and resilient ecosystem functioning. Furthermore, it is beyond dispute that ecosystem functioning is essential for the production of renewable resources and for sustaining ecosystem services critical to human well-being, such as clean water, fertile soils, and productive agricultural landscapes. However, the prevailing approach to studying environmental processes in an integrative, model-based manner often falls short in closing the feedback loop between land-use intensity — which, on the one hand, supports renewable resource production, but on the other, detrimentally impacts biodiversity. In this presentation, a series of initial conceptual models are introduced, aiming to capture the full feedback between land-use management, biodiversity, and renewable resource production, from both a conceptual-theoretical and practical perspective. Research proposals will be outlined that seek to fully elucidate this vital feedback. Finally, an outlook is offered on the type of integrated, interdisciplinary research that will be pursued within a new institute currently being established at the University of Luxembourg — the Luxembourg Centre for Social and Environmental Systems (LCSES).
Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems
Luxemburg University