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View some of the previous events hosted in the last year by the BRC.

BRS: Cameron Ghalambor "Plasticity and the time course of rapid evolution in patterns of gene expression"

January 20, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Jill Jankowski

BRS: Will Cornwell "An unresolved problem in ecology: a bottom-up predictive model of body size"

January 13, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Matt Pennell Abstract: Despite the importance of the processes of respiration and decomposition and the impact of heterotrophic organisms on the cycling of terrestrial carbon, we currently have no theory to predict the body size of a consumer of a piece of organic matter, from an ecosystem...

BLISS

December 11, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Schedule can be found here: https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/bliss/

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

December 9, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

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...

BLISS

December 4, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Schedule can be found here: https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/bliss/

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

December 2, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

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”...

BLISS

November 27, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Schedule can be found here: https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/bliss/

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

November 25, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

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...

BLISS

November 20, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Schedule can be found here: https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/bliss/

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

November 18, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

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...