180825 Conference Highlight：Annual Meeting of Ecology Society of America 2018

Title:
Conference Highlight：Annual Meeting of Ecology Society of America 2018

Speaker:
張峰勳 (Feng-Hsun Chang)

Time:
08/25 (Sat.) 7 pm PDT, 8 pm MDT, 9 pm CDT, 10 pm EDT
08/26 (Sun.) 10 am Taiwan

Keywords:
Ecology, Aquatic ecology, Community ecology, Biodiversity

Abstract:

Annual meeting of the Ecology Society of America (ESA) is the most popular ecology annual meeting in the world. There are over 4000 ecologists across the world to attend this meeting to discuss a variety of ecological topics from population to ecosystem level as well as from terrestrial to aquatic systems. The meeting consist of contributed sessions that will regularly occur each year and organized sessions that are organized voluntarily and approved by the ESA according to the pre-determined common theme of the meeting each year.

In this talk, I would like to first introduce/review what is ecology and the commonly seen sub-fields in ecology, including community ecology and ecosystem ecology. I will then review an old ecology question that still hunted nearly all, if not every, ecologists - why and how are there are so many species? An interesting follow up question is - what are those species doing in the system and are we human rely on them? This burgeoning question is what I think at least the community ecologists are pursuing contemporarily. I will finally summarize my talk with a take home message that we should conserve the species before we figure out the consequences of losing them.