Disciplines/Fields: Ecology, Mathematical modelling, Systems ecology
Dr. Ferenc Jordán will overview how network models help in describing various ecological systems (animal social networks, food webs, habitat networks). We will focus on key nodes and critically important links, and discuss how to connect vertically the above-mentioned, horizontal organization levels. Based on real problems, data, novel methods and approaches we will discuss the limits and perspectives of studying socio-ecological systems. Various hot topics will be discussed, ranging from marine overfishing to the emergence of leadership in social groups, and from systems-based conservation to habitat fragmentation, all from the same systems perspective.
Literature:
- Jordán F 2022. The network perspective: Vertical connections linking organizational levels. Ecological Modelling, 473, 110112, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110112.
- Bradshaw CJA, Ehrlich PR, Beattie A, Ceballos G, Crist E, Diamond J, Dirzo R, Ehrlich AH, Harte J, Harte ME, Pyke G, Raven PH, Ripple WJ, Saltré F, Turnbull C, Wackernagel M, Blumstein DT 2021. Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 1, 615419, https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419
- Jordán F, Ehrlich PR, Blumstein DT 2020. Pandemics have multiple, interacting drivers. Psychology Today, 26 July.
- Sagarin R, Taylor T (Editors) 2008. Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World. The University of California Press.
Lecturer
Dr. Ferenc Jordán is Hungarian biologist (PhD 1999, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary), focusing mostly on part-to-whole problems in ecology, based on network models. These range from food webs to animal social networks and from habitat networks to protein-protein interaction networks. Formerly The Society in Science: Branco Weiss Fellow (ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2003-2008), Principal Investigator at The Microsoft Research: Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (Trento, Italy, 2008-2014), Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany, 20162017), presently researcher at University of Parma (Italy, 2022-) and external associate to Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Napoli, Italy, 2016-). Increasingly interested and active in science communication, panel member of several organizations (e.g. European Research Council, Polish National Science Center) and editor in some journals (e.g. Ecology Letters). Currently lives in Vienna.