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A Tempo and Mode Seminar hosted by the Centre for Macroevolution & Macroecology.

Using observed patterns to infer underlying biophysical drivers of eco-evolutionary dynamics is a challenge for global-change ecology.

I will describe the analysis of a plot-based ‘snapshot’ dataset spanning Australia’s tall eucalypt forests, combining point-pattern statistics, likelihood-based inference and pattern-oriented modelling.

I will then introduce the ‘Forest of Stars’ project, a cross-disciplinary collaboration between biology and physics to apply astrophysical methods of analysis to the tall-forest dataset.

This project merges ideas and methods across starkly different research fields, with practical implications for data visualization and modelling.

Finally, I will embed this work in the broader context of the impacts of land-use and climate change on biodiversity, via the overarching concepts of decoupling and ‘ecomodernism’.

https://secure.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/plant-science/barry-brook