Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminars
Spring 2009
Cookies – AERL atrium, 3:40 pm
Seminar – AERL auditorium, 4:00 pm
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
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Jan. 7 |
Rebecca J. Rundel UBC |
Diversification of the rock and leaf litter-dwelling land snails of Belau (Republic of Palau, Oceania) |
Leander |
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Jan. 14 |
Trent Hoover UBC |
Physical controls on ecological processes: Tales from a mountain stream system |
Richardson |
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Jan. 21 |
Simon Conway Morris U Cambridge |
The Cambrian explosion: A reality check for evolution? |
Whitlock |
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Jan. 28 |
Thomas Quinn U. Washington |
Predation by bears on salmon: ecology, behavior and evolution |
E. Taylor |
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Feb. 4 |
Ruth Stockey U Alberta |
Distinguishing angiophytes from the earliest angiosperms: new evidence from the fossil record |
Berbee |
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Feb. 11 |
Ivana Gudelj Imperial College |
Quantifying fitness in a public goods game |
Doebeli |
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Feb. 18 |
None |
MIDTERM BREAK |
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Feb. 25 |
Diane Srivastava UBC |
Diversity in two dimensions and the dynamics of bromeliad food webs |
Srivastava |
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March 4 |
Karl Cottenie U Guelph |
Species richness - convenience versus confusion |
Shurin |
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March 11 |
Anurag Agrawal Cornell U |
Comparative tests of plant defense theory |
Chitty Lecture |
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March 18 |
Dan Bolnick U Texas, Austin |
Yes, we are all individuals!: The evolutionary and ecological consequences of niche variation |
Schluter |
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March 25 |
Anne Salomon UC Santa Barbara |
Human Alteration of Coastal Food Webs: Navigating Towards Social-Ecological Resilience |
Harley |
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April 1 |
Kris Metzger UBC |
Use of long term data for conservation planning |
Sinclair |
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April 8 |
Rachael Y. Dudaniec UBC |
Impact and ecological genetics of an invasive parasitic fly of Darwin's finches |
Richardson |
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April 15 |
John Wakeley Harvard |
tba |
Otto |
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April 22 |
Cancelled
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Questions? Suggestions? Please email Tony Sinclair (sinclair@zoology.ubc.ca) or Lebby Balakshin (admin@biodiversity.ubc.ca)
PREVIOUS SEMINARS
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminars
Fall 2008
Cookies – AERL atrium, 3:40 pm
Seminar – AERL auditorium, 4:00 pm
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
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Sept. 10 |
Josh Korman UBC |
Early life history dynamics of rainbow trout in a large regulated river |
Walters |
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Sept. 17 |
John Kominoski UBC |
Linking resource and consumer diversity to ecosystem function in detritus-based watersheds |
Richardson |
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Sept. 24 |
Charles Krebs UBC |
Climate Change and Vertebrate Population Dynamics in the Boreal Forests and Tundra of Northern Canada |
Krebs |
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Oct. 1 |
Antoine Leduc UBC |
Effects of weak acidity on behavioural risk assessment by juvenile salmonids |
Rosenfeld |
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Oct. 8 |
Rob Heinsohn Australian Nat. U |
Transvestites of the tree-tops: extreme reversed sexual dichromatism in Eclectus parrots |
Arcese |
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Oct. 15 |
Monika Winder UC Davis |
Climate forcing at the base of the aquatic food web: subtle causes and big effects |
Shurin |
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Oct. 22 |
Jim Bever Indiana U |
Ecological dynamics and evolutionary maintenance of the plant-mycorrhizal fungal mutualism |
Turkington |
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Oct. 29 |
Trevor Price U Chicago |
Speciation into and out of the Himalayas |
Evolution Lecture |
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Nov. 5 |
Sean Rice Texas Tech U |
Towards an axiomatic theory of evolution |
Aviles |
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Nov. 12 |
Rebecca Goldman Martone UBC |
Rights-based fisheries in Baja California: A management success story? |
Chan |
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Nov. 19 |
Morgan Ernest Utah State U |
Zero-sum dynamics, the niche, and metacommunities: a
desert rodent |
Goheen |
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Nov. 26 |
Janna Rist UBC |
The use of hunters, baselines and cameras in monitoring |
Vincent |
Spring 2008
Cookies – AERL atrium, 3:40 pm
Seminar – AERL auditorium, 4:00 pm
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
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Jan. 9 |
David Reznick UC Riverside |
The evolution of placentas in the |
Evolution Lecture |
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Jan. 16 |
Steven DeClerck UBC |
Aquatic biodiversity and its relation with resource limitation, structural diversity and among-patch connectivity |
Shurin |
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Jan. 23 |
John Richardson UBC |
Donor-controlled ecosystem subsidies and facilitation are important processes in freshwater foodwebs |
Richardson |
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Jan. 30 |
Marlene Zuk, UC Riverside |
Rapid evolution in silence: the causes and consequences of signal variation |
Chitty Lecture |
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Feb. 6 |
Todd Palmer U Florida |
Ants, plants and elephants: long-term dynamics of a multi-species ant-Acacia protection symbiosis |
Goheen |
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Feb. 13 |
J.C. Cahill U Alberta |
Main effects are dead: Interactions among interactions likely drive community structure in a grassland |
Turkington |
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Feb. 20 |
None |
MIDTERM BREAK |
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Feb. 27 |
Antoine Lecerf UBC |
Linking ecosystem structure and ecological functions in human-dominated environments |
Richardson |
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March 5 |
Laurent Lehmann Stanford |
The co-evolution between culturally-inherited helping behaviors and cultural transmission |
Whitlock |
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March 12 |
Susannah Porter UC Santa Barbara |
The evolution of mineralized skeletons |
Leander |
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March 19 |
Sabrina Taylor UBC |
Ancestral genetic variation in New Zealand saddlebacks and its consequences for recent serial translocations |
Arcese |
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March 26 |
Brad Davis UBC |
Extinction & Compensatory Mutation |
Whitlock |
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April 2 |
Troy Day Queens |
Modeling the evolutionary biology of coral bleaching |
Doebeli |
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April 9 |
Rene Beyers UBC |
Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Elephants and other Ungulates in the Congo Forest |
Sinclair |
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April 16 |
Julia Sigwart University College Dublin, & National Museum of Ireland |
Deep sea chitons: Life on sunken wood |
Harley |
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Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminars
Fall 2007
Cookies – AERL atrium, 3:40 pm
Seminar – AERL auditorium, 4:00 pm
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
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Sept. 5 * |
Anthony Waldron UBC |
Geographic Range Size: Speciation, extinction and the stuff that happens in between |
Schluter |
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Sept. 12 |
Adam Chippindale Queens U |
Gender load: Sexual conflict over gene expression reduces the fitness of sexual populations |
Otto |
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Sept. 19 |
Michael Nachman U Arizona |
The genetic basis of reproductive |
Rieseberg |
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Sept. 26 |
Peter & Rosemary Grant U Princeton |
How and Why Species Multiply: the adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches |
Schluter |
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Oct. 3 |
Mark Blows U Queensland |
Genetic limits to evolutionary change |
Schluter |
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Oct. 10 |
KEEP OPEN |
KEEP OPEN |
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Oct. 17 |
Andrew Dobson U Princeton |
Metalife! The ubiquity of parasitism and the dynamics of pathogens with multiple hosts |
Sinclair |
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Oct. 24 |
Will Cornwell UBC |
Plant functional diversity: ecological causes and ecosystem effects |
Sinclair |
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Oct. 31 |
Dilara Ally UBC |
The Cost of Longevity: loss of sexual function in clones of P.tremuloides |
Otto |
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Nov. 7 |
Michael Russello UBC-O |
Revealing cryptic diversity in |
Schluter |
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Nov. 14 |
Jabus Tyerman UBC |
Phenotypic divergence in the lab: What can E. coli
tell us about "the |
Doebeli |
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Nov. 21 |
Hiroshi Tomimatsu UBC |
Plant responses to forest fragmentation in northern Japan |
Vellend |
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Nov. 28 |
Rolf Vinebrook U Alberta |
Non-additive ecological surprises by global stressors |
Shurin |
* Note that the Sept. 5 seminar will be held in Biosciences Room 2000.
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminars
Spring 2007
Cookies – AERL atrium, 3:30 pm
Seminar – AERL auditorium, 4:00 pm
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
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Jan. 10 |
A.R.E. Sinclair UBC |
Longterm dynamics in the Serengeti ecosystem: Lessons for conservation and society |
Sinclair |
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Jan. 17 |
Ben Kerr UW |
The evolution and resolution of a 'tragedy of the commons' in a host-pathogen metapopulation |
Doebeli |
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Jan. 24 |
Brent Gurd UBC |
Functional ecomorphology, resource partitioning and the
organization of |
Sinclair |
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Jan. 31 |
Brian Leander UBC |
Convergent evolution in predatory cells |
Leander |
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Feb. 7 |
Hopi Hoekstra UC San Diego |
The genetic basis of adaptive change: from mice to molecules |
Schluter |
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Feb. 14 |
Mark Drever UBC |
Of beetles and birds: resource availability, guild structure, and avian richness in the Cariboo-Chilcotin |
Martin |
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Feb. 21 |
None |
MIDTERM BREAK |
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Feb. 28 |
Bob Holt UF Gainesville |
Niche conservatism, evolution, and applied ecology: Challenges and opportunities |
Chitty Lecture |
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March 7 |
Stuart West U of Edinburgh |
tba |
Evolution Lecture |
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March 14 |
Jason Hoeksema National Evolutionary Synthesis Center Durham, NC |
Incorporating stoichiometry and economic principles into models of species interactions |
Turkington |
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March 21 |
Janneke Hille Ris Lambers UW |
Exotic annual invaders in California: the role of resource competition and grazing |
Vellend |
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March 28 * |
Ray Hilborn UW |
Learning from fisheries successes: managing fish is managing people |
Larkin Lecture |
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April 4 |
Laurie Marczak UBC |
Trophic flows across ecosystem boundaries - when do they matter? |
Richardson |
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April 11 |
Marc W Cadotte UCSB |
Species diversity: understanding by linking local and larger scales |
Srivastava |
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April 18 |
Jason Weir UBC |
Climatic fluctuations and the origin of the Latitudinal diversity gradient |
Schluter |
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April 25 |
Ricardo Holdo UF Gainsville
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Effects of herbivory, fire, and frost on woodland structure and composition in Kalahari savannas |
Sinclair |
* Note Change of Time. The Larkin Lecture will start at 5:00 pm in AERL Rm 120. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the AERL atrium 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Open to all but please contact office@fisheries.ubc.ca if you wish to attend.
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminars
Fall 2006
Cookies – AERL atrium, 3:30 pm
Seminar – AERL auditorium, 4:00 pm
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
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Sept. 13 |
Ian Walker UBC-O |
The world according to midges
|
Myers |
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Sept. 20 |
Jane Reid U. Aberdeen |
Evolutionary ecology of inbreeding and sexual selection in song sparrows |
Arcese |
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Sept. 27 |
Lasse Fast Jensen Danish Institute for Fisheries Research |
Natural selection in wild populations: a study of MHC variation in Danish brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) populations. |
E. Taylor |
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Oct. 4 |
Arianne Albert UBC |
Sex and the stickleback |
Schluter |
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Oct. 11 |
Michelle Tseng UBC |
Linking ecological variation to evolutionary change using host-parasite systems |
Myers |
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Oct. 18 |
Blake Matthews UBC |
Food web ecology of lake zooplankton communities |
Shurin |
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Oct. 25 |
Doug Armstrong Massey U. NZ |
The role of population ecology in improving our management of reintroduced populations |
Arcese |
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Nov. 1 |
Laura Prugh UBC |
Island biogeography revisited: testing the importance of patch area and isolation with a global cross-taxonomic meta-analysis |
Sinclair |
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Nov. 8 |
Matt Arnegard UBC |
Candidate gene for electric signal diversification among Africa's |
Schluter |
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Nov. 15 |
Bradley Fedy UBC |
Combining molecular and ecological research to understand the metapopulation dynamics of an alpine obligate grouse species. |
Martin |
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Nov. 22 |
John Fryxell U. Guelph |
Spatial dynamics and the viability of Serengeti herbivores |
Sinclair |
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Nov. 29 |
Robert Dudley UC Berkeley |
Evolutionary Origins of Human Alcoholism in Primate Frugivory |
Brauner |
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminars
Spring 2006
Cookies – AERL atrium, 3:30 pm
Seminar – AERL auditorium, 4:00 pm
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
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Jan. 4 |
Kai Chan |
Conservation planning for ecosystem services |
Chan |
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Jan. 11 |
Ray Callaway |
Que es mas macho, novel weapons or the evolution of increased competitive ability? |
Turkington |
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Jan. 18 |
Brad Cardinale |
Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and scale |
Richardson |
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Jan. 25 |
Kurtis Trczinski |
The failure of an unfished Atlantic Cod population to recover: increasing trends in natural mortality and the role of seal predation |
Srivastava |
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Feb. 1 |
Makiko Mimura |
Dynamics of species' range: adaptation and gene flow in Sitka spruce. |
Aitkin |
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Feb. 8 |
Sue Hannon |
Reproductive source sink dynamics of American Redstarts |
Myers |
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Feb. 15 |
None |
MIDTERM BREAK |
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Feb. 22 |
Rees Kassen |
The ecology and genetics of adaptation and diversification |
Otto |
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March 1 |
Anthony Ives |
Phylogenetic signal in host-parasitoid associations and Diversity and biological control of aphids |
Chitty Lecture |
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March 8 |
Greg O'Corry-Crowe |
The Molecular Ecology of Marine Mammals in a Changing Environment: Steller Sea Lions and Beluga Whales |
Trites |
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March 15 |
Ingi Agnarsson |
Spider sociality: repeated origins of an evolutionary dead-end? |
Aviles/Maddison |
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March 22 |
Sean Rogers |
The genetic bases of adaptation and reproductive isolation in the lake whitefish species complex (Coregonus clupeaformis) |
Schluter |
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March 29 |
Richard Svanbäck |
Ecology and Evolution of Adaptive Morphological Variation |
Schluter |
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April 5 |
Brian Starzomski |
The effects of metacommunity size and indirect interactions on local species diversity |
Srivastava |
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April 12 |
Paul Brakefield |
Butterfly evo-devo and what determines occupancy of morphospace |
Evolution Lecture |
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April 19 |
Allan Baker |
Influence of large-scale paleoenvironmental changes on the evolutionary history of birds |
Ritland |
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminars
Fall 2005
Cookies – AERL atrium, 3:30 pm
Seminar – AERL auditorium, 4:00 pm
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
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Sept. 7 |
Charles Krebs |
Controlling rodent pests: on the ecology of house mouse outbreaks in Australia and ricefield rat control in SE Asia |
Krebs |
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Sept. 14 |
Barry Hall |
Predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance |
Redfield |
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Sept. 21 |
Tara Martin |
Predicting Australian woodland bird response to livestock grazing |
Arcese |
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Sept. 28 |
Keith Martin-Smith |
Ecology & biodiversity of stream fish in Borneo |
Vincent |
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Oct. 5 |
Helen Regan |
Dealing with uncertainty for conservation management |
Gergel |
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Oct. 12 |
Luke Harmon |
Repeated radiations of island lizards |
Schluter |
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Oct. 19 |
Nathan Taylor |
The Hierarchical Ecological Detective |
Walters |
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Oct. 26 |
David Coltman |
Evolutionary response to human harvesting |
E. Taylor |
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Nov. 2 |
Kurt Grimm |
A general theory of living systems |
Grimm |
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Nov. 9 |
Sandy Andelman |
Dynamics of fire, elephants and vegetation in the Kruger |
Arcese |
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Nov. 16 |
Craig Benkman |
Specialization and coevolution in the adaptive radiation
of |
Irwin |
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Nov. 23 |
Chris Lortie |
A test of the stress gradient hypothesis using meta-analysis |
Turkington |
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Nov. 30 |
Wayne Maddison |
Monsters lurking in the phylogenetic jungles: confounding asymmetries, skewed error and incomplete lineage sorting |
Maddison |
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminars
Spring 2005
Cookies - Hut B8, 3:30 pm
Seminar - Room 60, Fam. and Nutr. Sci. Bldg. 4:00 pm
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
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Jan. 5 |
Mark Lewis |
Mechanistic home range analysis |
Doebeli |
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Jan. 12 |
Claire Horner-Devine |
Big questions about small worlds: Patterns of bacterial diversity and community composition |
Shurin |
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Jan. 19 |
Andrew MacColl |
Cooperative parental care in long-tailed tits |
Schluter |
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Jan. 26 |
Lesley Evans Ogden |
Impacts of elevation on avian life history |
Martin |
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Feb. 2 |
Mark Collard |
Hominid Phylogeny Reconstruction: Problems and Prospects |
Maddison |
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Feb. 9 |
Azim Mallik |
Destabilizing black spruce-Kalmia communities of eastern Canada: Allelopathy, disturbance severity and seedbed limitation. |
Richardson |
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Feb. 16 |
None |
MIDTERM BREAK |
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Feb. 23 |
Steve Perlman |
Evolution and ecology of a recently discovered symbiont that manipulates reproduction in insects |
Aviles |
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March 2 |
David Schindler |
Climate Change, Human Use, and Freshwaters of the Western Prairies in the 21st Century |
Chitty Lecture |
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March 9 |
Irby Lovette |
How to build a warbler: the |
Schluter |
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March 16 |
Bob Denno |
Multi-trophic interactions across variable landscapes: consequences of predator invasions for insect herbivores |
Srivastava |
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March 23 |
Brian Charlesworth |
The importance of being closely linked |
Evolution Lecture |
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March 30 |
Risa Sargent |
Pollinator-mediated selection and diversity in flowering plants |
Otto |
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April 6 |
Katie Peichel |
Genetic analysis of reproductive isolation in sticklebacks |
Schluter |
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April 13 |
Peter Keightley |
The degraded hominid genome |
Otto |
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminars
Fall 2004
Cookies - Hut B8, 3:30 pm
Seminar - Room 60, Fam. and Nutr. Sci. Bldg. 4:00 pm
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
Host Lab |
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Sept. 15 |
Dolph Schluter |
Ecological Genetics of Adaptation |
Schluter |
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Sept. 22 |
Alida Janmaat |
Environmental Stress and Costs of Resistance |
Myers |
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Sept. 29 |
Roger Nisbet
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Population cycles |
Doebeli |
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Oct. 6 |
Chris Eckert |
Evolutionary consequences of biological invasion: interactions between founder effect and natural selection |
Whitton/Otto |
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Oct. 13 |
Keith Adams |
Exploring the Genomic Mysteries of Polyploidy |
Adams |
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Oct. 20 |
Jon Witt |
Accelerated Molecular Evolution and Microvicariance in a Crustacean Genus |
E. Taylor |
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Oct. 27 |
Ryan Norris |
Geographic connectivity and seasonal interactions in a migratory songbird |
Irwin |
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Nov. 3 |
David Green |
Social evolution and adaptive sex ratio manipulation in birds: an Australian perspective |
Smith |
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Nov. 10 |
Greg Sharam |
The decline and restoration of riparian forest fragments in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania |
Sinclair |
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Nov. 17 |
Andrew MacDougall |
Stability dynamics in dynamic ecosystems |
Turkington |
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Nov. 24 |
Laura Prugh |
Coyote-mediated community dynamics during a snowshoe hare decline in Alaska |
Krebs |
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Dec. 1 |
Jim Elser
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Biological Stoichiometry from Genes to Ecosystems |
Shurin |
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Dec. 8 |
Cort Griswold |
Theoretical models of the genetics of adaptation |
Whitlock |