All are welcome to this event - really excellent speaker. Please do circulate further.
Mark [NB - 'Reply' goes to all on list unless edited]
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15th Annual Kent-Kew Distinguished Ethnobotanist Lecture
Evolutionary ecology as a driver of new questions in ethnobotany
Professor Doyle M. McKey
Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE) CNRS, University of Montpellier
17.00 - Tuesday 14 October, 2014
Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Kew Gardens
(entry via Jodrell Gate on Kew Road from 4.30pm. Postcode: TW9 3DS. 10 minutes from Kew Gardens tube station) All welcome - no ticket/booking required.
http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/15th-annual-kent-kew-distinguished-ethnobotanist-lecture
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Doyle McKey is professor of ecology at the University of Montpellier and is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He studies interactions between plants and animals, and between plants and humans, in tropical ecosystems. His widely cited work covers diverse topics including the interactions between plants and vertebrate frugivore seed-dispersers, the theory of plant defence against herbivores, the ecology of protective ant-plant mutualisms, plant evolution under domestication, chemical ecology of plant-human interactions, historical ecology and landscape domestication. Research he led on the domestication of manioc by Amerindian farmers in South America has reshaped our ideas about the evolution of clonally propagated crops. For the past six years, he has directed an interdisciplinary project on the ecology of seasonally flooded savannas.
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