Presented By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Harvesting Insight from Grains through Granivores: an Investigation of Rodent Trophic Ecology in Michigan Agroecosystems
with Mariah Schlis-Elias, EEB Ph.D. Student
This event is part of our ongoing Tuesday Lunch Seminar Series.
Preview: Agriculture is a primary driver of biodiversity loss and biotic homogenization, generating agroecosystems with novel biotic and abiotic conditions that drastically alter the structure of vertebrate communities. At the same time, agroecosystems are a nexus of human-wildlife interactions, with surprisingly little known about the reciprocal impacts among rodents and agriculture. Notably lacking is information on seasonal variation in crop resource use and individual variation. For my dissertation, Schlis-Elias will use a combination of classic bulk tissue and cutting-edge compound-specific stable isotope analyses to address several understudied aspects of rodent trophic structure, resource use, and energy flow in Southeast Michigan agroecosystems.
Preview: Agriculture is a primary driver of biodiversity loss and biotic homogenization, generating agroecosystems with novel biotic and abiotic conditions that drastically alter the structure of vertebrate communities. At the same time, agroecosystems are a nexus of human-wildlife interactions, with surprisingly little known about the reciprocal impacts among rodents and agriculture. Notably lacking is information on seasonal variation in crop resource use and individual variation. For my dissertation, Schlis-Elias will use a combination of classic bulk tissue and cutting-edge compound-specific stable isotope analyses to address several understudied aspects of rodent trophic structure, resource use, and energy flow in Southeast Michigan agroecosystems.
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