8 Oct – Tanner – How many tropical tree species are there? 15 Oct – Coomes – Rain forests in the context of global change 22 Oct – Tanner 29 Oct – Prof Sharon Robinson (Wollongong) – Monitoring temporal and spatial change in Antarctic terrestrial communities 5 Nov – Andy Hacket Pain – CO2 fertilization discussion 12 Nov – Tanentzap – Jellification 19 Nov – Prof John Thompson (UCSC) – Relentless coevolution in interactions among species 26 Nov – Rademacher/Friend 27 Nov – Prof Lawren Sack (UCLA) – A unified science of leaf venation: hydraulics, development, evolution, and ecology in past, present and future (*note special date and in LLT) 3 Dec – Tommaso, Andres, Bea – BES practice talks 7 Jan – Coomes – CCI SPG questions 14 Jan – ‘Slide of the Day’ (TaR) 28 Jan – ‘Slide of the Day’ cont’d 4 Feb – Tim Rademacher 11 Feb – Prof John Raven (Dundee) – Marine Primary Productivity and the Biological Pump: Past, Present and Future (LLT, 13:00**) 18 Feb – Coomes group – Forest biomass: how should we measure it and why should we bother? 25 Feb – Dieter Lukas (Zoology) – Social competition in animals and plants 11 Mar – Part IIs (LLT) 15 Apr – Rubιn Valbuena (University of Eastern Finland) – Benefits of remote sensing in forest inventory and forest structure assessment 22 Apr – ‘Slide of the Day’ 30 Apr/1 May – 1st year talks at SLCU (10:00 30 Apr, Orland; 11:30 30 Apr, Bell; 14:30 1 May, Lee) 6 May – David Gill (FFI) 7 May – Robert Beyer (Munich) – Spatial Leaf Area-Density based Modelling of Phototropic Crown Dynamics for Crops and Trees (TapR, 12:00) 11 May – Prof Jack Putz (Florida) – The Future of Tropical Forests and Forestry (1pm, TapR, *note date change) 13 May – Grubb – trade-offs and traits