From 1967 to 2017: fifty years since the creation of the Department of Ecology of the UB

On June 1, 1967, the scientist Ramon Margalef took office of the first position as Professor of Ecology at the University of Barcelona and in all Spain. According to the academic tradition, this fact marked the creation of the Department of Ecology of the University of Barcelona, which holds the ephemerides this year with a program of activities –available on the website 50 years of the Department of Ecology of the University of Barcelona.

The celebration events for the fiftieth anniversary of the former Department of Ecology, now part of the Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, will start next Friday, May 19, with an Eco Café (11.30 h) that will lead to a first lecture, entitled “La recerca en ecosistemes terrestres i el paper de Ramon Margalef en la impulsió dels seus estudis” (11.30h), in the seminar of the Ecology Section at the Faculty of Biology.

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