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Duke University Program in Ecology Seminar: Fall Semester 2007
Fridays 1:15-2:30 pm, 2237 French Family Science Center (new location!).
For University Credit as: UPE 303S or BIO 311S, Prof. Bernhardt.

Friday
31 Aug
UPE faculty speed seminars

Friday
7 Sep
111 BioSci

Nick Gotelli
Professor, Department of Biology, University of Vermont

Community assembly: from small to large spatial scales

Friday
14 Sep
Katia Koelle
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Duke University
Modeling the dynamics and phylogenetics of antigenic immune escape
Friday
21 Sep
Hong Qian
Associate Curator of Botany, Illinois State Museum

Biogeography and species diversity of vascular plants in eastern Asia and North America

Friday
28 Sep

Friday
5 Oct

J. Emmet Duffy
Professor, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: are they important in the real world?
Friday
12 Oct
Pat Megonigal
Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Priming the microbial pump: Enhanced soil organic matter decomposition at elevated CO2
Friday
19 Oct

Valerie Eviner
Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Embracing variability to improve our understanding and management of ecosystems
Friday
26 Oct
Michael Piehler
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Marine Sciences, UNC Institute of Marine Sciences
Stable states and ecosystem function: Science to support management of shallow coastal lakes

Friday
2 Nov

Keith Clay
Professor, Dept. of Biology, Indiana University
Community and ecosystem consequences of endophyte symbiosis with tall fescue
Friday
9 Nov
Brian Enquist
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Toward a general quantitative scaling theory: Building from traits to communities to ecosystems
Friday
16 Nov
Mariana Vale
Graduate Student, University Program in Ecology, Duke University
Bird distribution and conservation in the Amazon
Friday
23 Nov
Thanksgiving break
No seminar
Friday
30 Nov
Gene Likens
Distinguished Senior Scientist, Ecologist, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Ecosystem science, environmental change and society: a personal view
Friday
7 Dec
Corbin Jones
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of North Carolina
A genomic view of of host specialization and its consequences

Past UPE seminars: Spring 2007 | Fall 2006 | Spring 2006 | Fall 2005 | Spring 2005 | Fall 2004 | Spring 2004

UNC Curriculum in Ecology seminars