DNA reveals the past and future of coral reefs
New DNA techniques are being used to understand how coral reacted to the end of the last ice age in order to better predict how they will cope with current changes to the climate. James Cook Univer
From 2005 to 2022, the main node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies was headquartered at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland (Australia)
Abstract: A major challenge is to better understand how human societies and healthy ecosystems can thrive, on an ever more globalized and crowded planet. Ecotourism is an increasingly popular sustainable development strategy because of its potential to stimulate economic growth while conserving environmental resources. I present a series of studies that measure social and ecological outcomes of ecotourism in Tibetan areas of southwest China. I highlight interactions and feedbacks occurring between the human and natural systems at multiple spatial scales, and I discuss the conservation implications for Himalayan old-growth forests, a geographically-limited and severely threatened biome.
Biography: Jodi is a postdoctoral research fellow at Dartmouth College, USA. She is a conservation scientist who integrates data and techniques from natural and social sciences to characterize environmental change processes. She has worked in a wide range of socio-ecological contexts, including coastal zones of the North American Great Lakes, tropical forests in the Congo, arid rangelands in the Bolivian Andes, and alpine and forest ecosystems in the Himalayans. She employs a variety of methodological tools, including remote sensing, experimental field plots, observational studies, spatial analysis, and econometric modelling. Her approach is very collaborative, and she has published with ecologists, economists, earth scientists, ethno-botanists, political scientists, environmental managers, and indigenous knowledge-holders.
New DNA techniques are being used to understand how coral reacted to the end of the last ice age in order to better predict how they will cope with current changes to the climate. James Cook Univer
A new study on the effects of climate change in five tropical countries has found fisheries are in more trouble than agriculture, and poor people are in the most danger. Distinguished Profess
James Cook University researchers have found brightly coloured fish are becoming increasingly rare as coral declines, with the phenomenon likely to get worse in the future. Christopher Hemingson, a
Researchers working with stakeholders in the Great Barrier Reef region have come up with ideas on how groups responsible for looking after the reef can operate more effectively when the next bleaching
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Abstract: The past few years have seen unprecedented coral bleaching and mortality on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) but the consequences of this on biodiversity are not yet known. This talk will expl
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