Speaker: Gabor Lovei, Senior Scientist Emeritus, Aarhus University, Denmark
Madagascar, often called the "eighth continent" or the "land that time forgot," is a hotspot of evolutionary divergence. Having broken off from Africa roughly 88 million years ago, its long isolation allowed for the evolution of roughly 150,000 unique species, 90% of which are found nowhere else on Earth.
This talk is based on a one-month long field course spent in the Kirindi Nature Reserve on the west coast of Madagascar. This is a habitat for lemurs, birds, lizards and snakes, all in a frenzy of activities at the start of the rainy season.
Gabor Lovei is a terrestrial ecologist, with research interests on invasion biology, environmental biosafety, agroecology, conservation biology, biodiversity, and ornithology. Over the past 35 years he has studied vertebrate and invertebrate ecology in Europe, East Africa, New Zealand, and China. He was a teacher at a field course of the Cambridge-based Tropical Biology Association that took place in Madagascar.
Everyone welcome.
