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Professor Paul Giller is a Zoologist and Ecologist in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at University College Cork. His research expertise lies in population and community ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and freshwater biology. He is joint editor of Disturbance and Recovery of Ecological Systems: Proceedings of a Seminar Held on 14-15 February 1995.