Thursday 21st November is week 6 of the Demography, Agriculture & Food series. It is being held, as always, in the Oxford Martin School 12.30-2:00pm.
The presenter this week is Dr Michael Bonsall, a member of the Zoology Department at Oxford University (and collaborator with Kenneth on the James Martin Future of Food Programme.). Dr Bonsall is interested in population biology.
His research focuses on a wide range of questions such as the population and evolutionary dynamics of life history strategies, the role of spatial structure on shared enemy and competing enemy interactions, the effects of enrichment on the diversity of ecological communities, the interplay between noise and dynamics in multispecies interactions and the evolution of resistance to microbes.
Mike Bonsall is presenting on ‘Fundamental population dynamics and its implications for understanding agricultural systems and technologies.’
His talk will present some of the ways that have been developed for understanding how uncertainty affects population dynamics in ecological systems. Focussing principally on insect population dynamics, he will discuss how uncertainty affects insect dynamics at both the regional and local scales and show how he has begun to incorporate this understanding of uncertainty into thinking about applied problems such as vector dynamics and disease control.
