18 July: Lecture by Eduardas Budrys
- Published on Wednesday, 14 July 2021 13:12
Grazing, the lost factor of our nature
Sunday, 18 July, 7pm
Lecture by Eduardas Budrys
Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts
Šaltenis Auditorum
E. A. Jonušo str. 3
Nida LT-93127
Participants must register here.
Grazing is one of the main factors that have been shaping nature in the past. In this lecture, we will discuss nature as a successional system, also looking at the Holocene, the last period of the Pleistocene - and the one that was changed by man. Finally, we will try to outline possible scenarios - what kind of nature do we want to preserve for future generations?
Dr. Eduardas Budrys graduated from Leningrad University in 1984 and is now a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Natural Sciences and Associate Professor at Vilnius University. He has held fellowships at Natural History Museums and other research institutions in Washington DC, San Francisco (1992), Leiden (1993), London (1995), and at the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation in Brussels (2001-2002). The focal points of Dr. Budrys’s research are insect phylogeny, evolution, ecology and behaviour, genetic diversity and molecular evolution of species, predator-prey interactions, ecological niche modelling, ecosystem services for plant pollination and management of herbivorous insect populations. Dr. Budrys has published 76 scientific papers and co-authored three books. He has also described 32 insect species new to science.