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Ecology seminars, 2009

All seminars organized for 2009 by the Penn State Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, plus other ecology-related seminars.
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Mon Feb 09 at 04:00PM Beth Shapiro (Penn State)
Sequencing the dead: using DNA from fossil remains to reconstruct demographic history
112 Borland
Mon Feb 16 at 04:00PM Warren Abrahamson (Bucknell University)
Three decades of study on goldenrod galls: a medley of questions and approaches
112 Borland
Mon Mar 02 at 04:00PM Andrew Read (Penn State)
Vaccination: the evolutionary consequences of humankind’s biggest attempts to deliberately perturb organismal ecology
112 Borland
Mon Mar 16 at 12:10PM Norm Ellstrand (University of California-Riverside)
Lessons from crop (trans)genes out of place – environmental & other implications
108 Wartik
Mon Mar 16 at 07:00PM CANCELED Judge John Jones
Our Constitution's Intelligent Design
100 Life Sciences Bldg (Berg Auditorium)
Mon Mar 23 at 04:00PM David Winkler (Cornell University)
Life history variation in Tachycineta swallows over time and space
112 Borland
Mon Mar 30 at 04:00PM CANCELED Fred Gould (North Carolina State University)
Can release of genetically engineered pests help sustain biodiversity?
112 Borland
Mon Apr 06 at 04:00PM Susan Kalisz (University of Pittsburgh)
Finding Darwinian Heroes: Among family variance in inbreeding depressions
112 Borland
Mon Apr 13 at 04:00PM Al Savitzky (NSF)
Purloined Poisons: Sequestered chemical defense in a Japanese snake
112 Borland
Mon Apr 20 at 04:00PM Stephen Hubbell (University of California- Los Angeles)
Niches, neutrality, and the dynamics of a neotropical tree community: perspectives from a 29-year study
112 Borland
Tue Apr 21 at 04:00PM Bill Hansson (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology)
The contrivances by which orchids and other flowers are pollinated
101 Althouse
Tue Apr 28 at 04:00PM Craig Benkman (University of Wyoming)
Specialization and coevolution in the adaptive radiation of crossbills
101 Althouse
Mon Sep 14 at 01:00PM Adam Miller (Penn State University)
Coexistence in disturbance-prone communities: how a resistance-resilience trade-off generates coexistence via the storage effect
301D LSB
Mon Sep 21 at 01:00PM Richard Smith (Penn State)
Can lessons from agriculture inform invasive plant ecology?
118 ASI
Mon Sep 28 at 01:00PM Sarah Goslee (Penn State University/USDA ARS)
Plant diversity, ecosystem function, and grassland agriculture
118 ASI
Mon Oct 12 at 01:00PM Baptiste Faure (Penn State University)
Speciation in the deep sea: divergence and gene flow between two hybridizing species of hydrothermal vent mussels
118 ASI
Mon Oct 19 at 01:00PM Courtney Murdock (Penn State University)
Studies on the ecology of avian malaria in an alpine ecosystem
118 ASI
Mon Oct 26 at 01:00PM Margot Kaye (Penn State University)
Ponderosa pine woodlands in the Great Plains: seeing the forest through the grass
118 ASI
Mon Nov 02 at 01:00PM Daniel Munari
Challenges for the monitoring of larger mammals in the Amazon Forest
301D Life Sciences Building
Mon Nov 09 at 01:00PM Jennifer Dean (Penn State University)
Soil factors influence sugar maple herbivory and defense signaling
118 ASI