Description
The rapid changes that humans impose on the biosphere require a new thinking about how to preserve its biodiversity. Limits to the size of protected areas and human-wildlife conflicts make it increasingly difficult to preserve fully complete and intact ecosystems in a pristine, wilderness-type setting. Species combinations without clear historical analogous arise and new types of ecological interactions are found.Understanding the resulting ecological changes requires the thorough analysis of ecosystems from the perspective of multiplex (i.e., multi-layer) networks, in which a diversity of interactions (as herbivory, predation, mutualism and ecosystem engineering) jointly determine community structure and ecosystem functioning. Using examples from a range of temperate to tropical ecosystems, I will address how this new multiplex network perspective is important for the preservation and restoration of biodiversity and associated key ecosystem services in a changing world.| Period | 13-Feb-2018 |
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| Event title | Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting 2018 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Conference number | 11 |
| Organiser | Netherlands Ecological Research Network (NERN) |
| Location | Lunteren, NetherlandsShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |