EEB and the Institute for Global Change Biology Thursday Seminar: The long-term climate change mitigation potential of working lands
Whendee L. Silver, Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry and Rudy Grah Endowed Chair in Forestry and Sustainability, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley
Land management has been proposed as a means to help lower greenhouse gas emissions and reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)...
EEB Thursday Seminar: Unraveling the tangled web: the evolutionary impact of hybridization
Molly Schumer, Assistant Professor of Biology, Stanford University
How distinct species persist in the face of gene flow is a long-standing and central question in evolutionary biology, reinvigorated by the...
EEB Thursday Seminar: Carnivores - competition and connectivity
Scott Creel, Professor, Conservation Biology & Ecology Program, Montana State University
Current extinction rates are comparable to five prior mass extinctions in the earth’s history, and are strongly affected by human...
EEB Thursday Seminar: The evolution of X-linked hybrid male sterility in Drosophila
Colin Meiklejohn, Assistant Professor School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
During speciation, sex chromosomes accumulate interspecific genetic incompatibilities faster than the rest of the genome. As a consequence,...
EEB Thursday Seminar: Do we need biodiversity for ecosystem services?
Rachael Winfree - Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University
The importance of biodiversity to ecosystem functions such as biomass production and carbon storage is a key question in basic ecology,...
