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Duke University Program in Ecology Seminar: Spring Semester 2008
Fridays 1:15-2:30 pm in room 2237 French Family Science Center unless otherwise noted. For university credit as: UPE 303S or BIO 311S.

Friday
18 Jan
Nicki Cagle
Graduate student, Program in Ecology, Duke University
Final seminar: A multiscale analysis of snake species-habitat relationships and conservation in the tallgrass prairie of Illinois

Friday
25 Jan

John King
Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University

Net primary production, residue biochemistry and decomposition dynamics regulate northern forest ecosystem response to atmospheric change

Friday
1 Feb
Todd BenDor
Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, UNC - Chapel Hill
Modeling the wetland mitigation process and its dynamic effects on no net loss policy

Friday
8 Feb

Elizabeth Losos
Adjunct Professor, Environmental Sciences & Policy, Nicholas School; President and CEO, Organization for Tropical Studies

Seeing the forest for the trees: Changing tropical ecosystems

Friday
15 Feb
Emily Stanley
Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
On the receiving end: nitrogen in Wisconsin streams

Friday
22 Feb

Jeff Vincent
Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management, Nicholas School, Duke University

Storm protection services of mangroves: Evidence from Orissa

Friday
29 Feb
Miles Silman
Associate Professor of Biology, Wake Forest University
Thinking outside the hectare: climate change, humans, and tree diversity in the Tropical Andes biodiversity hotspot

Friday
7 Mar

David Pfennig
Professor of Biology, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Ecology, development, and the origins of biological diversity

Friday
14 Mar
Spring Break

Friday
21 Mar

Bob Hall
Associate Professor, Dept. of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming

Controls of nitrate removal and denitrification in U.S. streams

Friday
28 Mar
Ariana Sutton-Grier
Graduate Student, University Program in Ecology, Nicholas School, Duke University
Final seminar: Not for the faint-hearted! Plant diversity and biogeochemistry in N.C. restored wetlands

Friday
4 Apr

David Skelly
Professor of Ecology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

Frogs in a changing world: contemporary evolution across a temperature gradient

Friday
11 Apr
Varun Swamy
Graduate Student, Nicholas School, Duke University
Final seminar: Fruit to sapling: an integrated study of tree recruitment in an Amazonian rainforest

Thursday
17 Apr
4:00pm, Love Auditorium, B101 LSRC

Bill Schlesinger
President, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

More than a beast, but much less than an angel
(2007 Oosting Lecture)

Friday
25 Apr
Dalia Amor Conde
Graduate Student, University Program in Ecology, Nicholas School, Duke University
Final seminar: Past, present and future of the Mayan forest: Impact of road investments on deforestation and jaguar habitat

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

UNC Curriculum in Ecology seminars