Hosted by the School of Biological Sciences.
Dan, based at University of Exeter, is interested in climate change effects on food security, particularly plant pathogen epidemiology, and has done extensive modelling of climate impacts on species distributions (see bio below and his faculty page here).
If you’d like to meet with Dan, please contact Nina Ockendon-Powell
Bio: Dan Bebber obtained his PhD in Tropical Ecology at the University of Oxford, studying the effect of El Nino-related drought and insect herbivores on tree regeneration in Sabah, Malaysia. He then moved to the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto to take up a post-doctoral position in forest regeneration in Ontario, followed by a research into the role of fungi in forest nutrient dynamics at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford. In 2007 he joined the environmental NGO Earthwatch, based in Oxford, as Head of Climate Change Research, managing an international citizen science research programme into forest carbon dynamics. He joined Exeter in 2013, studying the global distributions of crop pests and pathogens and the impacts of climate change on crop production. He is particularly interested in abiotic and biotic threats to tropical crops like coffee and banana, and works closely with the organization CABI on pest and pathogen impacts. He is currently Chair of the British Mycological Society's Fungal Biology Research Committee, and co-Technical Director of CABI's Global Burden of Crop Loss initiative.