Presented By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
EEB Tuesday Seminar Series - The Forest and the Trees: Paleobotanical Context, Proxies, and Assumptions
Dr. Aly Baumgartner, Collection Manager of Vascular Plants, University of Michigan Herbarium
This event is part of our ongoing Tuesday Seminar Series.
Plants are not just the "green background" that animals live in front of; for most terrestrial environments, plants are the environment. Being non-motile photoautotrophs means that plants reflect the realities of their local environment. For more than a century, paleobotanists have used leaf physiognomic-climate relationships to develop proxies to reconstruct paleoclimate and paleoenvironment. However, as these relationships have primarily been studied in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, there is still much to learn about the relationships of "Gondwanan" floras to climate.
Join Remotely: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94285293918
Meeting ID: 942 8529 3918
Passcode: tuesem
Plants are not just the "green background" that animals live in front of; for most terrestrial environments, plants are the environment. Being non-motile photoautotrophs means that plants reflect the realities of their local environment. For more than a century, paleobotanists have used leaf physiognomic-climate relationships to develop proxies to reconstruct paleoclimate and paleoenvironment. However, as these relationships have primarily been studied in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, there is still much to learn about the relationships of "Gondwanan" floras to climate.
Join Remotely: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94285293918
Meeting ID: 942 8529 3918
Passcode: tuesem
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