2025年11月14日 Michel Loreau 院士：Thirty years of research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: what have we learned and what remains to be learned?

主讲人：Michel Loreau  院士

主持人：何芳良 教授

讲座时间：2025 年 11 月 14 日  9:30 AM

讲座地点：闵行校区资环楼 148 室

主办单位：生态与环境科学学院、科技处

报告人简介：

Michel Loreau is currently emeritus researcherat the Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station of the National Centre for Scientific Research in Moulis (France) and adjunct professor at Peking University (China). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a member of the Academia Europaea, an honorary member of the British Ecological Society, and the recipient of numerous scientific awards. Throughout his career, he has strived to establish the theoretical foundations for a new ecological synthesis that integrates the divergent perspectives of community ecology, evolutionary ecology, and ecosystem ecology. Over the past thirty years, his research has focused primarily on the consequences of biodiversity loss for ecosystem functioning, ecosystem stability, and human societies. This new field of research has experienced spectacular growth, to which he has contributed significantly, not only through his scientific work, but also through his responsibilities in numerous national and international initiatives.

报告内容介绍：

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (BEF) has been one of the most successful areas of research in recent decades because of its ability to link important basic scientific questions to societal concerns, establish strong links between experimental and theoretical work, and build scientific consensus despite and beyond differences of opinion. After initial controversy, it has provided irrefutable scientific evidence that biodiversity loss affects ecosystem functioning and services, with potentially major long-term consequences for human societies. But BEF research has also changed the way we do science in ecology. In particular, it has opened up entirely new perspectives on the long-standing diversity–stability debate, largely resolving the debate and changing our understanding of the very concept of stability. Recent advances and future challenges in BEF research include (1) building new partitioning frameworks and new experiments to unravel the underlying mechanisms, (2) connecting experimental and observational approaches, and (3) scaling-up BEF research to larger spatial and temporal scales and more complex multitrophic ecosystems to inform policy and management.

讲座介绍：

“大夏生态学讲座” 是华东师范大学生态与环境科学学院举办的特色生态学系列讲座，特邀全球生态学领域顶尖学者主讲，讲座内容聚焦生物多样性与生态系统功能、气候变化等前沿方向，涵盖理论创新、实证研究与应用探索等多元维度。本系列讲座旨在分享全球顶尖科研成果与研究方法，拓宽师生学术视野，搭建国际学术交流桥梁，助力生态学科发展与人才培养。