Consequences of biodiversity loss

Scientific Lecture: The ecological consequences of biodiversity loss

Consequences of biodiversity loss pdf

Presentation: The ecological consequences of biodiversity loss (PDF, 2.42 MB)

Michel Loreau is Full Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in theoretical ecology at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). After receiving his Ph.D. from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium), he was research assistant of the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium), lecturer at the Free University of Brussels, programme manager at the Science Policy Office (Belgium), and professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris, France).

Michel Loreau is renowned internationally for his work on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, but his scientific interests cover a wide range of topics at the interface between ecosystem ecology, community ecology, and evolutionaray ecology. He has won several scientific prizes, including the International Ecology Institute Prize, the Silver Medal of the National Centre for Scientific Research (France), and the Agathon De Potter and Max Poll Prizes of the Royal Academy of Belgium. He has been member of numerous national and international scientific committees. In particular, he chaired the Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS, the international programme of biodiversity science, the International Steering Committee of the consultative process towards an International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity (IMoSEB), the Steering Committee of the European Science Foundation programme Linking Community and Ecosystem Ecology (LINKECOL), and the Scientific Committee of the International Conference Biodiversity Science and Governance organised by France under the high patronage of Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic, and Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO.

Contact Information:
Department of Biology, McGill University
1205 avenue Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada
E-mail: michel.loreau@mcgill.ca