• Andy Turner's EGC Research Cluster Page

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  • Introduction

    • This is for information about the Ecology and Global Change Research Cluster in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds.
    • Contents:
      • Details
      • Blog
      • References
      • Validation and Metadata

  • Details

    • Andy Turner's Ecology and Global Change Research Interest Web Page

  • Blog

    • 2006-05-11

      • Research commttee meeting feedback
        • SoG VAM has changed to help people who get lots of points get more resource for their cluster(s). 20% carry over + 20% feedback on extra to the clusters... Points are cashed in for research leave...
      • Launch Event
        • Application needs to be organised by 2006-07-30 else funds (£5000) might not be available...
        • Themed e.g. Tropical Forests: New Persepcitves (name suggested by Oliver) Tropical forest past, present and future, Human disturbance in ecosystems
        • What is the aim of the event?
          • Party...
          • To raise the profile of the group
          • Networking and collaboration
          • Publishing something
        • Invite old friends supervisors etc...
        • Special sessions at conferences considered to be a bad idea, but link to special issue of a journal considered as a good idea...
        • Brainstorm names of people to invite (sorry for wrong spelling of names)
          • Mark Bush Tropical Paleo ecologist UCL
          • Frank Mayle
          • Rob Marchant (Modeller)
          • Univerity York Environment and law Sandy Harris and Colin Prentice
          • Not someone at JRC or CGIAR or CIAT (Andy's idea) they are not natural environment they are agricultural (John)
          • Christian Koner(sp?) He has an opposite view to many in EGC group
          • David Coombes
          • Jarame Shabbey
          • Alistair micro ISA tropical forests
          • Malcome Presh
          • Sharron Caldine, Mark Madeline
          • Some lady from Sheffield...
          • Nicos...
          • Ed Tanner...
        • When to do it? September 2006... John here for first two weeks... May 2007 (too late?)
      • Let's make some posters. Everyone should do one...
      • LBA conference in July 2007 in Vallen
      • Web content and access to N:/ drive not discussed!
      • Actions
        • Andy to disseminates his notes (give to Tim so he can do some preperation for the launch...)

    • 2006-05-04

      • Joint EGC/EBI meeting
      • Dr Luke Skinner, from the Godwing Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Talked about "Abrupt climate change and the deep Atlantic heat and carbon budgets"....
        • I wonder how much effect the mid atlantic ridge and ocean floor spreading have had on ocean circulation...

    • 2006-02-15

      • Helen Busby Resource supply versus species type: assessing the roles of light availability and species traits in driving growth of trees in Amazonia
        • I think this work would benefit from the production of 2D visual displays (maps) and perhaps the use of Geographically Weighted Statistics.
      • Pia Wohland What controls CO2 exchange between the atmosphere and biosphere in tropical grasslands in the Okavango Delta, Botswana?
        • Savannas cover a large area of Earth. They are a diverse biome, and there are a variety of different environments caused by drianage, geomorphology, climate etc... Savannas are potentailly large carbon stores and sinks.
        • As with John Lloyd's seminar on 2006-02-09 the main the focus was on measuring photosynthetic and respiratory carbon balance in plants. I asked Pia to give me pointers to anyone working on preciptiation related aspects of carbon balance and she said she would :).
      • Kuo-Jung Chao Exciting new results on predicting tree death in Venezuela

    • 2006-02-09

      • Jon Lloyd Ecology and Physiology of Boreal and tropical Forests in a Changing World
        • Focus on measuring photosynthetic and respiratory carbon balance in plants. The seminar made me wonder if part of the carbon balance equation was missing, i.e. the amount of carbon returing from the atmosphere in precipitation. I asked a question, but John reckoned that the climate scientists had shown this to be negligible. I wonder what the state of this research is...

    • 2006-01-11

      • Richard Law Spatial Patterns and Inferences about Dynamics in Plant Communities
        • Illustrated an example of torus type distance weighting being useful. Interesting notions of pair and multiple densities. Often it is interesting when things appear in two's!
        • Illustrated the Janzen-Connell hypothesis as described in Hyatt l.A., Rosenberg M.S., Howard T.G., Bole G., Fang W., Anastasia J., Brown K., Grella R., Hinman K., Kurdziel J.P. Gurevitch J., (2003) The distance dependence prediction of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis. OIKOS 103: 590-602.
        • Described the use of inhomogenous K-function (as described here and here) for work on cancer epidemiology by Diggle P.J. and colleagues.
        • All the talk of kernels, scales and distance was refreshing. To encourage further collaboration I emailed Richard and pointed him to work on GAM/K

    • References

      • Related organisations
        • Potential collaborators.
        • Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics @ University of Sheffield
        • Yadvinder Malhi
        • The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (Andy Jarvis)
        • Consultitative Group on International Agricultural Research
        • European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (Andy Nelson)

  • Validation and Metadata

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    • Version 0.2.0 of this page published on 2007-05-02.
    • Based on Andy Turner's html4.01-strict EGC Research Cluster Page.
    • Page hosted on the School of Geography webserver at the University of Leeds.
    • Copyright: Andy Turner, University of Leeds.