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Spring 2012 Seminars and Events

January 16, 2012 (EEB Seminar)

Cory Merow

PhD Defense: Developing and Assessing Modeling Strategies in Plant Population and Community Ecology

1:00PM in BPB 130

January 26, 2012 (EEB Seminar)

Dustin Rubenstein (Columbia University)

Environmental uncertainty and the evolution of complex sociality: patterns, processes, and mechanisms

4:00PM in BPB 130

February 2, 2012 (EEB Seminar)

Kevin Lafferty (Univ. California-Santa Barbara)

Parasites and food webs

4:00PM in BPB 130

February 9, 2012 (EEB Seminar)

Matthew Niemiller (Yale University)

Evolutionary insights on the origin and conservation of subterranean fishes and salamanders

4:00PM in BPB 130

February 16, 2012 (EEB Seminar)

Eldridge Adams (University of Connecticut)

The self-organization of group behavior during conflicts

4:00PM in BPB 130

February 23, 2012 (Teale Seminar)

Sir Peter Crane (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies)

“The Future of Plants”

4:00PM in Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

March 1, 2012 (Teale Seminar)

David Gessner (University of North Carolina Wilmington)

“In Pursuit of a New Environmentalism”

4:00PM in Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

March 8, 2012 (EEB Seminar)

David Foster (Harvard Forest)

The history and future of New England’s woods

4:00PM in BPB 130

March 22, 2012 (EEB Seminar)

Manuel Morales (Williams College)

Population dynamics and community ecology of mutualism

4:00PM in BPB 130

March 29, 2012 (Teale Seminar)

Michael Mann (Earth System Science Center, The Pennsylvania State University)

"The Hockey Stick: On the Front Lines in the Climate Wars"

4:00PM in Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

April 5, 2012 (EEB Seminar)

Ricardo Rozzi (University of North Texas)

Field environmental philosophy to confront biocultural homogenization in a rapidly changing world

4:00PM in BPB 130

April 12, 2012 (EEB Seminar)

Stacey Smith (University of Nebraska)

Ecology and genetics of floral diversification: A case study in Andean Iochroma (Solanaceae)

4:00PM in BPB 130

April 19, 2012 (EEB Seminar)

Volker Rudolf (Rice University)

From individuals to ecosystems: Consequences of ontogentic functional diversity for natural communities

4:00PM in BPB 130

April 26, 2012 (EEB Seminar)

Jeannine Cavender-Bares (Univ. of Minnesota)

Reconciling local adaptation and deep evolutionary history in the assembly of ecological communities: Implications for global change

4:00PM in BPB 130