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Pedro Jordano, King Jaime I Prize for Environment in 2014, held tomorrow, day 20, at the University of Murcia (UMU), the conference "Challenges of Biodiversity Conservation in the Anthropocene".
The talk will take place in the auditorium "Hermenegildo Lumeras de Castro" of the Faculty of Chemistry, Campus Espinardo, at 13:00.
Jordano is research professor of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and director of the Integrative Ecology group at the Biological Station of Doņana.
In the talk, the speaker will discuss the challenges that researchers face to reduce the devastating effects of human actions on biodiversity.
"I will explain various concepts such as biodiversity, ecosystem services and conservation biology necessary to reflect on the fundamental challenges that we face to restore efficiently and quickly functionality of ecosystems after disturbances caused by human action", highlights the researcher of the Biological Station of Doņana.
"When I talk about Anthropocene I mean the era spanning the last 15,000 years of Earth history, which has seen drastic changes driven by human action on terrestrial ecosystems," says Jordan, who notes that it is changes that have occurred in a very short time and its consequences have strongly conditioned the way of life of other species.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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