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Brown Bag Talk at 2012 by Holly Jones
Holly Jones
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Conservation and Restoration Locally and Globally
When: Thursday, February 21st, 2013, Reception @ 12:00 m
Where: Wirtz 216
Given the rise of human populations and continued exploitation of the ecosystems on which humans depend, restoration is becoming one of the most important tools in managers’ toolboxes. I will first cover a meta-analysis I am conducting with collaborators that looks at ecosystem recovery and restoration after a wide variety of severe disturbances including agriculture, deforestation, invasive species, and oil spills. I will next focus on one particular disturbance - invasive vertebrate introduction - on island ecosystems. Invasive vertebrates have been devastating to island ecosystems and island-breeding species. The majority of the world’s extinctions has occurred on islands and was caused by invasive vertebrates. Invasive vertebrates have now been eradicated from over 700 islands globally with the goal of restoring island ecosystems. This part of the talk will look at my research quantifying ecosystem recovery after invasive vertebrate eradication on New Zealand Islands. Lastly, I will detail a project that attempts to identify where coastal human populations are most vulnerable to climate change and where ecosystems might be able to serve a role in helping people adapt to climate change stressors (sea-level rise and tropical storms).
Dr. Jones is a restoration ecologist and works at the intersections of ecological theory, community ecology, invasive species biology, and ecosystem ecology. She has broad research interests that include using ecosystem resilience theory and ecosystem
service theory to prioritize restoration, and using geospatial information to prioritize climate change adaptation strategies.Return to Brown Bag
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