Professor Philip Rundel

Keynote speaker for "Defining a Mediterranean Ecosystem" on Day One of the Scientific Program.

Philip Rundel is Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

He is also Director of the University of California, Los Angeles, Stunt Ranch Reserve and a senior investigator in the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing.

He has been a faculty member at the University of California since completing his PhD degree at Duke University in 1969.

His research centers on the ecophysiological adaptations of plants and plant communities to environmental stress, particularly in the five mediterranean-climate regions of the world. This research involves studies in California, as well as in mediterranean-type shrublands of central Chile and the Cape Region of South Africa.