BES-TEG aimed at promoting and facilitating communication and interaction between tropical ecologists to enable inter-disciplinary transfer and development of knowledge and skills; and provides support for early career researchers while filling-in policy gaps. After six successful Early Career Research Meetings, BES-TEG are organizing a 7th meeting schedule to take place at the University of York, on the 14 – 15 of August 2014. Day one will focus on Ecology and Ecosystem Processes, while day two will focus on Practical Applications and links to Policy such as conservation, livelihood, policy and development. All early-career researchers; both PhD and Post-Docs; were welcomed and presented their tropical ecology related research at poster sessions and oral presentations.
Keynote presentation by Prof. Henry Hooghiemstra (University of Amsterdam) – Stable oceanic islands versus dynamics islands in the sky: a new perspective from pollen records
Key speech by Dr. Marion Pfeifer (York/Imperial College) – Analysing biological responses to land use changes in the tropics
Colin Courtney-Mustaphi (University of York), – Drivers of landscape-scale environmental changes in east Africa
Poster session
John F. Carson (University of Reading) – Human-climate-vegetation interactions during the late-Holocene in the “geometric earthwork” region of Bolivian Amazonia
Q and A
Keynote presentation by Prof. Jane Hill (University of York) – Conserving species in tropical agriculture-landscapes – oil palm climate change and forest fragmentation
Poster session
Time for a drink
Lunch time
Lunch
The venue
Dinner
At the bar
A tour around the City of York
By: Colin Courtney Mustaphi
Photography: Nvenakeng Suzanne Awung
18 August 2014