Ecologist Yadvinder Malhi participates in the new edition of the Ramon Margalef Forum at the Faculty of Biology
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The ecosystem ecologist Yadvinder Malhi, winner of the 21st Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology, given by the Government of Catalonia, will be the main guest speaker at the Ramon Margalef Forum, to be held in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Biology on 29 October. This event — open to the public — is promoted every year by the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona, on the occasion of the presentation of the institutional award that the Government of Catalonia has been giving since 2004 in memory of Professor Ramon Margalef. He was an emeritus professor at the UB and an inspiration for many generations of ecologists worldwide.
The ecosystem ecologist Yadvinder Malhi, winner of the 21st Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology, given by the Government of Catalonia, will be the main guest speaker at the Ramon Margalef Forum, to be held in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Biology on 29 October. This event — open to the public — is promoted every year by the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona, on the occasion of the presentation of the institutional award that the Government of Catalonia has been giving since 2004 in memory of Professor Ramon Margalef. He was an emeritus professor at the UB and an inspiration for many generations of ecologists worldwide.
Yadvinder Malhi (United Kingdom) is a professor of Ecosystem Science at the Institute of Environmental Change at the School of Geography and the Environment (University of Oxford). He coordinates an extensive research programme on tropical forests and savannas in Asia, Africa and the Amazon and Andes regions of South America, and has developed an international research network across the tropics that collects data on ecosystem function and its links to biodiversity. Malhi receives the Ramon Margalef Prize for his contributions to the integration of ecosystem ecology into Earth system sciences, especially with regard to tropical forests, in the context of environmental change and biodiversity loss.
As part of the science forum, Malhi will give the lecture “Energy flow as a way of understanding ecosystem change and nature recovery”. As in previous editions, there will also be a round table with an open debate, featuring the participation of the award-winning scientist and the experts Imma Oliveras, from the University of Montpellier’s Botany and Plant Architecture Modeling (AMAP) and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD); Emma Cebrian, from the Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), and Beatriz Duguy, from the UB’s Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences.
In the afternoon session (from 4.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.), Malhi will take part in a session aimed especially at young students, led by experts Eli Martínez and Pol Capdevila, from the aforementioned UB department. On 30 October, the Aula Magna will also host a meeting with Yadvinder Malhi and high school students from different education centers.
Ramon Margalef, a role model in ecology
Ramon Margalef (1919-2004) is regarded as one of Catalonia’s most important scientists of all time and one of the pillars of 20th century ecology in the world. The UB’s first professor of Ecology and one of the leading international advocates of modern ecology, he was the driving force behind the creation of the former UB’s Department of Ecology and became a point of reference for several generations of scientists and naturalists across Spain. Thus, each year the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology aims to recognize a scientific career or a discovery in the field of ecological sciences that has contributed to the significant progress of knowledge or scientific thought, or to the development of theoretical instruments for the good management of natural resources, land and sea.
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Ramon Margalef, an international distinguished figure in ecology in the 20th century, launched the creation of the former Department of Ecology of the UB.
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