TOPIC：Ecological Consequences of Mass Insect Migrations

SPEAKER：Dr Jason Chapman, University of Exeter, UK

TIME: April 15th, 2024 (Monday) 16:00-17:00

LOCATION: Room 3060A, Plant Protection Building, West Campus of China Agricultural University

PROFILE：

Dr Jason Chapman is a Professor of Migration Ecology, and Director for Global Engagement, in the Centre for Ecology and Conservation (CEC), at the University of Exeter in the UK. He is also Visiting Professor of Insect Migration in the lab of Prof Gao Hu at Nanjing Agricultural University and works extensively in China. He has made many important discoveries about insect migration during the past 25 years, and regularly publishes these results in the top scientific journals, e.g. Science (x3), Nature, PNAS (x4), Current Biology (x5), and the Annual Review of Entomology (x3). Much of this work has been done in collaboration with Prof Gao Hu at Nanjing Agricultural University, Dr Lei Zhang at CAAS (Beijing) and Dr Hongqiang Feng at HAAS (Zhengzhou).

ABSTRACT：

In this seminar, Dr Jason Chapman will introduce the work he has been doing recently with a team of international collaborators, to quantify the intensity and patterns of mass insect migrations around the globe. He has also done some important work to estimate the ecosystem services provided by beneficial migratory species, and the implications of migration for crop damage and disease spread.