Restoring Ecosystems in a Time of Ongoing Global Change

Date: 

Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Online

Free Virtual Public Lecture

David Moreno Mateos, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Affiliate of the Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Advance Registration Required.

How long does it take for an ecosystem to recover after it is disturbed or destroyed by human activities? How do we know when an ecosystem has recovered? In this lecture, restoration ecologist David Moreno Mateos will discuss the traditional methods used to assess the recovery of terrestrial ecosystems—such as changes in biodiversity or soil carbon levels—and highlight their limitations. He will make a case for more comprehensive and long-term approaches to understanding and measuring ecosystem recovery and highlight their potential for enhancing environmental policies and large-scale restoration strategies.

This program is supported by the Michael V. Dyett Lecture Fund.

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