Speaker: Dr. Christos MAMMIDES (Guangxi University, China)

Title：(1) Anthropogenic impacts on bird communities in protected areas: examples from Cyprus, Kenya, and Sri Lanka

       (2) Using structural equation modelling to measure anthropogenic impacts on birds

Time: April 3rd (Tuesday) 2018, 2:00-4:00 pm

Venue: C1-24-26 report hall, Southwest biodiversity lab campus

• Brief introduction to the presentation:

• (1) Anthropogenic impacts on bird communities in protected areas: examples from Cyprus, Kenya, and Sri Lanka

• Habitat disturbance caused by anthropogenic activities remains one of the main threats to biodiversity. Understanding how these activities affect animal communities is important for devising effective conservation measures. In this talk, I will present examples from several parts of the world on how various anthropogenic activities, such as small-scale, non-mechanized logging in Africa and establishment of roads in Europe affect biodiversity, particularly bird communities.

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(2) Using structural equation modelling to measure anthropogenic impacts on birds

Habitat disturbance caused by anthropogenic activities remains one of the main threats to biodiversity. Structural equation modelling (SEM), a multivariate statistical method, can be used, among other things, to measure the direct and indirect effects of habitat disturbance on biodiversity. In this talk, I will present two examples from Kenya in Africa and Cyprus in Europe on how the method can be used to quantify the effect of anthropogenic activities on bird communities.

Introduction of the speaker:

Christos MAMMIDES received his PhD degree, in Conservation Biology, from Imperial College London where he used statistical analyses to quantify the impacts of anthropogenic activities on bird communities, using data from Kenya and Cyprus. In 2014, he joined Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Yunnan, China, as a postdoctoral researcher, to study how land-use and altitudinal gradients affect the associations of species in mixed-species bird flocks. He is currently part of the “Behavioural, Community Ecology, and Conservation Biology” group, at the College of Forestry of Guangxi University, where he works as an Associate Professor. Christos has published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals including the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Landscape Ecology, Biological Conservation, and Ecological Indicators. He is currently working on projects aiming at using statistical and spatial tools to understand the mechanisms by which human activities affect biodiversity.

　　Everyone is welcome! 

　　 State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution

　　Ecology, Conservation, & Environment Center (ECEC)

　　2018-03-26