2024年1月2日 Jonathan Chase 教授：Scale as a unifying tool for synthesis in biodiversity studies

讲座题目: 入侵植物多样性的生态效应

主 讲 人：Jonathan Chase 教授

主 持 人：邢丁亮 青年研究员 

开始时间：1月2日 9：00

讲座地址：资环楼269室

内容简介：Some of the most important questions in biodiversity studies also remain the most controversial. Are species distributions structured by deterministic processes such as environmental filtering and species interactions, or do random processes reign supreme? Amidst a global extinction crisis, how is local biodiversity changing? How are productivity and diversity related? These and dozens of other questions have caused a considerable amount of strife in ecology over the decades. In my work, I have endeavored to find approaches, tools, data and perspectives that can synthesize these disparate views into a broader and more cohesive perspective. In this talk, I will use the concept of scale (mostly spatial, but also temporal, taxonomic) as a fundamental mediator of biodiversity patterns and processes, and as such, as a way in which to synthesize seemingly disparate results. I will present some of the tools and approaches that we have developed that move beyond treating scale as a mere nuisance to treating it as a fundamental property of data that can help us to develop a more cohesive perspective on process and pattern in biodiversity studies. Finally, I conclude with a broader perspective on how the lessons learned in scale-dependence in biodiversity studies can help provide context for synthesis throughout ecology.

报告人简介：Jonathan Chase，德国整合生物多样性研究中心（iDiv）教授，主要从事集合群落生态学、生物多样性时空格局整合分析等领域研究。著有《Ecological Niches》（2003）和《Metacommunity Ecology》（2018）两本在生态学中具有广泛影响力的专著，在Nature、Science、PNAS等期刊发表研究论文140多篇，多次入选Web of Science全球高被引学者榜单。曾获美国博物学家学会“青年科学家奖”、美国生态学会“George Mercer”奖、圣路易斯科学院“创新奖”等诸多奖项。曾任American Naturalist编委（2002-2006）、Ecology Letters编委（2002-2005），现任Ecology Letters资深编辑（2005-至今）、Faculty of 1000委员（2006-至今）等学术职务。