"Predicting Amazonian deforestation and its biodiversity impacts" by Dr Rob Ewers

Past Event

Date
 18 January 2013, 5:15pm - 6:45pm

Location
 Herbertson Room, OUCE
Herbertson Room, OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY

This seminar is run by the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests, an Oxford Martin School Centre

Summary: Tropical deforestation is one of the world’s leading causes of biodiversity loss at global scale. Dr Ewers will examine the rates and patterns of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, and present models predicting the rate at which extinction will occur over the coming decades.

Speaker: Dr Robert Ewers, Division of Ecology and Evolution, Imperial College London

The seminars will be followed by drinks

For further information please contact jane.applegarth@eci.ox.ac.uk | +44 (0)1865 285190 (Direct)