00:00 - Introduction to the Verral from Helen Roy
01:58 - Housekeeping and Announcements
05:47 - Introducing Dr Ed Turner
07:28 - The Verrall Lecture - Key challenges for insects
14:30 - Future landscapes
15:54 - Oil palm as a model system
25:04 - Variable effects of logging on biodiversity
34:22 - Oil palm experimental study plots
43:30 - Yield results
46:19 - The RERTA Project and impacts of temperature change
48:27 - Impacts of warming temperatures on insects in England
53:34 - Variation in topography, vegetation and moisture impacts on temperature
55:28 - Non-academic outputs
57:41 - Conclusions
58:51 - Thank you Dr Edgar Turner
1:00:16 - Q&A
1:15:25 - President's Medal Award
1:16:23 - Close
“Managing tropical ecosystems for insect biodiversity”
Tropical ecosystems contain an astonishing variety of life, but are increasingly threatened, particularly by logging, agricultural expansion, and the pervasive impacts of climate change. In this talk I will explore our ongoing work with collaborators in #Malaysia and #Indonesia investigating some of the impacts of forest logging and conversion to oil palm on insects, but also ways that landscapes can be managed to maintain and even increase insect biodiversity.
This year, the annual Verrall Lecture took place at the Flett Theatre, Natural History Museum, London on March 1st 2023.
Read more about this year's Verrall Lecture here:
www.royensoc.co.uk/event/verr...
#Entomology #Science #Education #Research #Tropical #Ecosystem #Insects #Biodiversity #Logging #Forest #Agriculture #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #OilPalm #Diversity
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