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Spring 2006: Ecology Across Scales
Ecology Across Scales is the theme of the Spring 2006 Penn State Ecology seminar series. A dozen speakers from around the U.S. cover a wide range of ecological systems and processes.
| when | who | where |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 20 | Barbara Peckarsky (University of Wisconsin) The influence of predators on prey population dynamics in open systems | 11:15, 101 ASI |
| Jan 30 | J. Timothy Wootton (University of Chicago) Insights into multi-species systems: a community dynamics approach | 1:25, 101 ASI |
| Feb 6 | Lou Derry (Cornell University) Tracing the biogeochemical cycle of silica in forested systems: new tools and results | 1:25, 101 ASI |
| Feb 13 | Christine Goodale (Cornell University) Patterns and processes of carbon and nitrogen sequestration at a range of spatial and temporal scales | 1:25, 101 ASI |
| Feb 27 | Matthew Liebold (University of Texas) Food web and metacommunity dynamics in pond ecosystems | 1:25, 101 ASI |
| March 13 | Nelson Hairston (Cornell University) Assessing evolutionary rates in an ecological timescale: copepodology for the ornithologist revisited | 1:25, 101 ASI |
| March 20 | Peter Reich (University of Minnesota) From tropics to tundra, seedling to tree, and molecule to ecosystem to globe: How constraints from trade-offs, stoichiometry, and biophysics make plants behave simply in a complex world | 1:25, 101 ASI |
| March 27 | Peter Morin (Rutgers University) Small worlds: using microorganisms to explore big patterns in ecology | 1:25, 101 ASI |
| April 3 | Eric Post (Penn State) Phenological responses to climate change across spatial and organizational scales | 1:25, 101 ASI |
| April 10 | Robert Denno (University of Maryland) Multi-trophic interactions across variable landscapes: consequences of predator subsidies for insect herbivores and food-web dynamics | 1:25, 101 ASI |
| April 17 | John Weins (The Nature Conservancy) How large is the gap between science and conservation practice, and is it a scaling issue? | 1:25, 101 ASI |
| April 24 | Oscar Rocha (Kent State University) Fragmentation in seasonally dry tropical forests: reproductive biology and gene flow in tree populations | 1:25, 101 ASI |
Series cosponsored by the Entomology Department, Penn State Institutes for the Environment, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, and the Department of Geosciences.