Population Ecology Award Ceremony & Lecture

Ceremony & Lecture｜15 November｜09:30〜10:30｜lang. Bil

Toward a solution to the Prestonian shortfall of biodiversity knowledge

Dr. FUKAYA Keiichi (National Institute for Environmental Studies)

Abundance, which describes the size of a population, is a major quantity in ecology. Accurate quantification of species abundance requires, however, a considerable amount of effort and expertise for careful sampling and long-suffering counting. Although new technologies that simplify field measurements are emerging continually, the assessment and prediction of species abundance remain difficult. As a result, modern ecology does not always have sufficient answers to the essential question: when, where, and how many individuals of species are there? In this talk, I present a current set of potential approaches and issues that need to be addressed to achieve the (seemingly prohibitive) comprehensive understanding of the spatio-temporal distribution of species abundances and discuss a pathway to a deeper understanding of biodiversity in terms of abundance.