Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Abstract

Why conserve nature ? This question is far from simple. While the first nationwide conservation initiatives can be datedback to the 17th century, initially focusing on forest management, the methods and motivations behind nature conservation have undergone profound changes. Today, several currents of thought coexist, and sometimes clash, in this field. And it's only recently that biological invasions have been taken into account in conservation strategies. In this seminar, I'll be giving you an overview of the different approaches to conservation that exist in the Western world, and their underlying practical or philosophical principles. This will enable us to better understand the place of biological invasions in these different perspectives. Finally, I will outline the strategies employed to control or eradicate an invasive species when deemed necessary.

Guillaume Latombe

Guillaume Latombe

Guillaume Latombe is Lecturerin the Biology of Environmental Change at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh. He is an ecologist and modeler whose work focuses on invasion science, conservation, macroecology and community ecology. Originally trained as an engineer, he holds an engineering degree from ENSIEG, Grenoble, and an M.Eng in machine learning from the École de technologie supérieure in Montreal, Canada.
After studying cognitive science with primates for a year at the University of Barcelona, he completed a PhD at the University of Montreal, working on animal movement modeling, focusing on caribou, moose and wolves. Before coming to Edinburgh, Guillaume Latombe was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria, in the Bioinvasions group, where he worked on the AlienScenarios project. This project aimed to assess the range of plausible futures of biological invasions for the 21st century at different spatial scales and for a range of taxonomic groups.
Guillaume Latombe was also previously affiliated with the Biomathematics Group and Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and the McGeoch Research Group at Monash University, Australia.

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Guillaume Latombe

Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

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