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NERC Centre for Population Biology

Working Groups and Workshops

The CPB encourages collaborative working groups and workshops on topics relevant to ecology, population biology and related areas.  Our aim is to draw together researchers with different but related backgrounds to explore a particular issue or idea, especially where the topic requires new combinations of skills, datasets or analyses.  We hope that mixing researchers with different skills, experience and viewpoints will generate new ideas and approaches and will progress research on the topic in question.

Working groups typically consist of up to 20 participants who might meet once or twice per annum to explore an issue in more detail than would be possible in a one-off workshop.

Past and Planned Working Groups and Workshops

 

Workshop/Work party

Workshop Leader

Year
Global biodiversity indicators  Dr Jonathan Baillie 2006
Integrating spatially explicit statistical models and individual-based modelling using Bayesian statistics  Dr Barb Anderson & Prof Chris Thomas 2006 2007
Spatial analysis of tropical forest biodiversity Prof Richard Law, Dr David Burslem & Dr Janine Illian  
Using the IUCN Red List Criteria to Project Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity  Dr Resit Akçakaya 2007
Species Vulnerability Traits  Dr Wendy Foden & Dr Ben Collen 2007
Predicting the effects of climate change on natural populations and communities  Dr Frank van Veen 2006 2007
Properties of existing reserve networks  Dr Mark Johnson 2006 2007
Closed ecological systems: black boxes or promising model systems for climate change research?  Dr Alex Milcu 2007
Linking Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics  Dr Fanie Pelletier 2008
Establishing a Global Ecosystems Database
 		 Dr Pete Manning 2008
Reconciling biogeography, phylogeny and community ecology  Dr Rich Grenyer & Dr Gavin Thomas 2008
Current and past determinants of Western Palaearctic biodiversity  Dr Joaquin Hortal 2008 2009
Migration: A synthesis  Dr EJ Milner-Gulland 2008
Functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity in a changing world  Dr Andy Purvis 2008 2009
Global assessment of reptile distributions  Dr Shai Meiri 2008 2009
Outstanding questions in speciation research  Dr Ally Phillimore 2008
A framework for linking ecological and economic systems  Dr E.J Milner-Gulland, Dr Emily Nicholson, Professor Georgina Mace & Dr Simon Buckle

2008
Biosphere-atmosphere workshop Prof Pier Luigi Vidale & Prof Georgina Mace

2009
Linking Patterns and Processes in mycorrhizas at the European scale Dr Martin Bidartondo & Dr Nadia Barsoum

2009
An evidence-based approach to identifying the drivers of population change under different threat scenarios Dr Gavin Stewart & Dr Ben Collen

2009
Paleoecology workshop Dr Martin Solan

2009
Relationship of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Implications for Economic Analysis Dr Pushpam Kumar & Dr Forian Eppink

2009
What is the role of community composition in determining ecosystem function in a changing environment?
 Dr Pete Manning & Dr Mike Perring 

2009
For mulating stable hypotheses in the study of habitat fragmentation Dr Rob Ewers

2009

Scaling biodiversity monitoring from the local to the global

Dr Julia Jones, Dr Ben Collen & Prof E.J. Milner-Gulland

2009

Monitoring the sustainability and value of wild meat harvest

 Dr Marcus Rowcliffe

2010