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Duke University Program in Ecology Seminar: Spring Semester 2006
Fridays 1:15-2:30 pm in room 111 BioSci unless otherwise noted.
For University Credit as: UPE 303S or BIO 311S, Prof. Bernhardt.
Special Ecology/Behavior faculty candidate seminars are highlighted in blue.

Monday
9 Jan
4:15 pm, 144 Bio Sci
Barney Luttbeg
Postgraduate Researcher, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis
Ecology/Behavior faculty candidate seminar: How do individuals choose options in variable environments? Using data to evaluate alternative models.
Tuesday
10 Jan
1:30 pm, 140 Bio Sci
Barney Luttbeg
Postgraduate Researcher, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis
Second seminar
Thursday
12 Jan
4:15 pm, 144 Bio Sci
Michael Loeb
Postdoctoral Reseach Fellow, Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis
Ecology/Behavior faculty candidate seminar: Ecology and behavior of reproductive cooperation in communal egg layers
Friday
13 Jan
12:00 pm, 140 Bio Sci
Michael Loeb
Postdoctoral Reseach Fellow, Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis
Second seminar

Friday
13 Jan

Jack Brookshire
Graduate Student, Department of Biology, Virginia Tech

Shifting atmospheric contributions to forest nitrogen cycling and loss

Thursday
19 Jan
4:15 pm, 144 Bio Sci
Susan Bertram
Assistant Research Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Ecology/Behavior faculty candidate seminar: Maintenance of variation in sexually selected traits
Friday
20 Jan
12:00 pm, 140 Bio Sci
Susan Bertram
Assistant Research Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Second seminar: Quantification and origins of division of labor
Friday
20 Jan
Phil Townsend
Associate Professor, Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin
Erosion, sedimentation and long-term landscape change on Southeastern floodplains
Monday
23 Jan
4:15 pm, 144 Bio Sci
Manuel Leal
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Ecology/Behavior faculty candidate seminar: Signal evolution and species diversity in Anolis lizards
Tuesday
24 Jan
1:30 pm, 140 Bio Sci
Manuel Leal
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Second seminar: Look who's talking: redundancy and quality of signal content
Thursday
26 Jan
4:15 pm, 144 Bio Sci
Samantha Forde
Postdoctoral Associate, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ecology/Behavior faculty candidate seminar: Dispersal influences species interactions across space and time
Friday
27 Jan
12:00 pm, 140 Bio Sci
Samantha Forde
Postdoctoral Associate, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Second seminar: Dispersal influences
Friday
27 Jan
Richard Mack
Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University

Invasion! Immigration routes and ecological genetics of Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) in North America

Monday
30 Jan
4:15 pm, 144 Bio Sci
Katia Koelle
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Ecology/Behavior faculty candidate seminar: TBA
Tuesday
31 Jan
1:30 pm, 140 Bio Sci
Katia Koelle
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Second seminar
Friday
3 Feb
Weijun Shen
Research Associate, Nicholas School, Duke University
Rainfall mediation effects on desert ecosystem responses to elevated [CO2]: A modeling analysis
Monday
6 Feb
4:15 pm, 144 Bio Sci
David Smith
Research Scientist, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, National Institutes of Health
Ecology/Behavior faculty candidate seminar: The evolution of drug resistance: molecules, populations and money
Tuesday
7 Feb
1:30 pm, 140 Bio Sci
David Smith
Research Scientist, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, National Institutes of Health
Second seminar: Malaria transmission: why mosquitoes matter
Thursday
9 Feb
4:15 pm, 144 Bio Sci
Sam Brown
Human Frontier Science Fellow, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas-Austin
Ecology/Behavior faculty candidate seminar: Cooperation and conflict in microbial worlds
Friday
10 Feb
12:00 pm, 140 Bio Sci
Sam Brown
Human Frontier Science Fellow, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas-Austin
Second seminar
Friday
10 Feb
Sujay Kaushal
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) Appalachian Laboratory
Influence of land use on sources and transformations of nitrogen in streams

Friday
17 Feb

Bill Fagan
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Maryland
Growth rate variation and its consequences for ecological dynamics
Friday
24 Feb

Mike Dietze
Graduate Student, Program in Ecology & Department of Biology, Duke University

Final seminar: Regeneration Dynamics in Large Forest Gaps
Friday
3 Mar
Emily Minor
Graduate Student, Program in Ecology & Nicholas School, Duke University
Final seminar: The effects of urbanization on forest birds in the North Carolina Piedmont

Friday
10 Mar

No seminar
Friday
17 Mar
Spring break No seminar
Friday
24 Mar
Scott Davidson
Postdoctoral Researh Associate, Department of Biology, Duke University
Population dynamical consequences of environmental variation on baboons
Friday
31 Mar
Mike Wolosin
Graduate Student, Program in Ecology & Department of Biology, Duke University
Final seminar: Measuring 3D tree structure in closed canopies to understand growth
Thursday
6 Apr
4:30pm, 111 BioSci
preceded by light reception at 4:15pm
Monica Turner
Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Disturbance, heterogeneity and ecosystem function: lessons from the 1988 Yellowstone fires
(2006 Oosting Lecture)
Friday
7 Apr
Monica Turner
Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Frontiers in Landscape Ecology - discussion with graduate students
Friday
14 Apr
Inés Ibáñez
Graduate Student, Program in Ecology & Department of Biology, Duke University
Final seminar: Recruitment dynamics of tree species. Implications under global climate change
Friday
21 Apr
Curtis Smith
Graduate Student, Program in Ecology & Department of Biology, Duke University
Final Seminar: Evolution of dispersal distance in pattern-forming systems
Friday
28 Apr
Rob Dunn
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University
Biogeographic consequences of a seed-dispersal mutualism

Past Ecology seminars: Fall 2005 | Spring 2005 | Fall 2004 | Spring 2004