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Peter Søgaard Jørgensen

Macroecology is the subfield of ecology that deals with the

study of relationships between organisms and their environment

at large spatial scales to characterise and explain statistical

patterns of abundance, distribution and diversity.

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2014 1995 1989

A global innovation platform of early-career ecologists

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Current focus

Macroecology Real world

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US Americans killed by evolution: 670,000 / yr

Andrew Read 2013

~ 1 % of world GDP

2 of 2075 gene therapy trials

finally approved

Introduction

of antibiotic

Evolution of

first resistance

RESISTANCE CATCHES UP

Socio-ecological governance

One planet economy

One planet economy

Brown et al. 2011 Bioscience

Brown et al. 2011 Bioscience

Macroecology ”Macro-socio-ecology”

• Natural ressource use of nations (1960-2010)

• Structure

• Efficiencies (social, economic, environmental)

• Data consistency

• Variation & trends

• First movers

• Reconciling controversies

Globalized supply chains

Hoekstra & Wiedmann 2014 Science O’Rourke 4 Science

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