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SUMMARY:The challenge of quantifying floristic change in Earth’s most bi
 odiverse forests - Frederick Draper
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CONTACT:Yi Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Tropical forests present a major challenge for ecologists. We 
 know tropical forest ecosystems are vital for regulating global biogeochem
 ical cycles and have enormous biodiversity value\, however\, we are curren
 tly unable to effectively monitor change in these ecosystems because they 
 are often remote\, vast and inaccessible. Furthermore\, the huge species r
 ichness of tropical forests means that identifying plant species consisten
 tly at large scales is extremely difficult. As a result\, our understandin
 g of compositional change through space and time is extremely uncertain. I
 n this talk\, I will discuss this major challenge and present a new resear
 ch program that seeks to address these issues by combing traditional botan
 y with new technological approaches.
LOCATION:Main Seminar Room (1.25)\, David Attenborough Building
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