Seminars and events

The Herbarium hosts free public seminars at the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens.

They are held from noon until 1pm in the second week of the month—in the FM Bailey conference room in the Herbarium building.  You don’t need to register, just turn up on the day. 

June

Monday 17 June

‘A comparison of the international IUCN for ecosystem risk assessment with the Queensland regional ecosystem biodiversity status assessment’

Bruce Wilson, Science Leader, Queensland Herbarium

The recent paper by Keith et al. Scientific Foundations for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems has put forward new risk assessment criteria for ecosystems.

Like the IUCN ‘red list’ and the regional ecosystem framework we have been using in Queensland for over a decade,  Keith’s criteria incorporate decline in ecosystem extent, restricted distribution and degradation of biotic and ecological processes.

However, the IUCN protocol has more quantitative sub-components within each criterion, different thresholds and more risk categories.

This talk will detail the background scientific justification to the IUCN framework and compare it to the Queensland regional ecosystem framework.