Biodiversity Research Seminar Series

The Biodiversity Research Seminar Series (BRS) is held on Wednesdays at noon in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum auditorium

The BRS series organizers are Diane Srivastava, John Richardson, and Judith Mank. Cookies and coffee are provided in the Biodiversity Research Centre atrium at 11:30am. To update the title/speaker changes, please contact Katie Beall.

Upcoming Events

BRS: Stephen Wright "Y degenerate? Evolutionary genomics of plant sex chromosomes”

host: Keith Adams Abstract: Classical models suggest that recombination rates on sex chromosomes evolve in a stepwise manner to localize sexually antagonistic variants in the sex in which they are beneficial, thereby lowering rates of recombination between X and Y chromosomes. We investigated this...

BRS: NO SEMINAR

REMEMBRANCE DAY

BRS: Xiangtao Xu "More than deciduous and evergreen: unraveling tropical leaf phenological diversity with observations and models across scales"

host: Naomi Schwartz Title: More than deciduous and evergreen: unraveling tropical leaf phenological diversity with observations and models across scales Abstract: Despite being largely depicted as a dichotomy of evergreen and deciduous, tropical forests harbor a wide range of leaf phenological...

BRS: Belinda Medlyn "Predicting climate change impacts on forests and woodlands"

host: Sean Michaletz Abstract: Climate change, driven by rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations, is well under way. Rising temperatures, increased heat extremes, and hotter (and therefore more severe) droughts are already having major impacts on native vegetation. Predicting the likely impacts of...

BRS: Loralee Larios “Disentangling the effects of small mammals on plant community structure”

host: Jennifer Williams Title: “Disentangling the effects of small mammals on plant community structure” Abstract: Determining the factors that regulate plant abundance and composition has been a long-standing endeavor for ecologists. Traditionally, this issue has been addressed with a “bottom-up”...

BRS: Holly Moeller "Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How acquired metabolism creates ecological opportunity and fuels evolutionary innovation"

host: Jason Pither Abstract: While biologists typically think of an organism's metabolism as hard-wired in its DNA, in reality a vast array of species gain access to additional forms of metabolism through interactions with other species. This acquired metabolism can be obtained through interactions...

BRS: Will Cornwell

host: Matt Pennell

BRS: Cameron Ghalambor

host: Jill Jankowski

BRS: Alison Donnelly "Exploring discrepancies between in situ phenology and remotely derived phenometrics"

host: Elizabeth Wolkovich Title: Exploring discrepancies between in situ phenology and remotely derived phenometrics Abstract: In recent years, the use of satellite sensors and near-surface cameras to monitor vegetation phenology at landscape and higher scales has become increasingly common. These...

BRS: Deborah McGregor

host: UBC-O

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BRS: Stephen Wright "Y degenerate? Evolutionary genomics of plant sex chromosomes”

BRS: NO SEMINAR

BRS: Xiangtao Xu "More than deciduous and evergreen: unraveling tropical leaf phenological diversity with observations and models across scales"

BRS: Belinda Medlyn "Predicting climate change impacts on forests and woodlands"

BRS: Loralee Larios “Disentangling the effects of small mammals on plant community structure”

BRS: Holly Moeller "Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How acquired metabolism creates ecological opportunity and fuels evolutionary innovation"

BRS: Will Cornwell

BRS: Cameron Ghalambor

BRS: Alison Donnelly "Exploring discrepancies between in situ phenology and remotely derived phenometrics"

BRS: Deborah McGregor