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

BLISS: CANCELLED

April 3, 2020
2212 Main Mall
room 224
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Fridays, 16:00 to 17:00, Biodiversity Research Centre, Room 224. Featuring research by grad students, postdocs, faculty, visitors and emeritus faculty interested in biodiversity research. Click here for more information or contact Andrea Thomaz (last name @ biodiversity.ubc.ca) to sign up. schedule...

BRS: CANCELLED

April 1, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Christopher Martin "The complex origins of vertebrate adaptive radiation: from adaptive gene flow to fitness landscapes" host: Dolph Schluter, cookies Dolph and Katie ? Abstract: Adaptive radiations produce many new species with diverse and often novel ecological niches. How do populations rapidly...

BLISS: CANCELLED

March 27, 2020
2212 Main Mall
room 224
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Fridays, 16:00 to 17:00, Biodiversity Research Centre, Room 224. Featuring research by grad students, postdocs, faculty, visitors and emeritus faculty interested in biodiversity research. Click here for more information or contact Andrea Thomaz (last name @ biodiversity.ubc.ca) to sign up. schedule...

BRS: CANCELLED

March 25, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Jeff Sayer "How change happens in forest landscapes" Abstract: Academic biodiversity science struggles to deal with the complex realities of places where biodiversity conservation happens. Conservation interventions themselves often focus on symptoms and neglect underlying drivers of biodiversity...

BLISS: CANCELLED

March 20, 2020
2212 Main Mall
room 224
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Fridays, 16:00 to 17:00, Biodiversity Research Centre, Room 224. Featuring research by grad students, postdocs, faculty, visitors and emeritus faculty interested in biodiversity research. Click here for more information or contact Andrea Thomaz (last name @ biodiversity.ubc.ca) to sign up. schedule...

BRS: CANCELLED

March 18, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Ingrid Parker “Phylogenetic ecology and plant disease” host: Jonathan Davies, cookies Marie and Laura P. Abstract: Pathogens play an important role in shaping the structure and dynamics of natural plant communities. We study how the phylogenetic and ecological structure of the surrounding community...

BLISS: CANCELLED

March 13, 2020
2212 Main Mall
room 224
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Fridays, 16:00 to 17:00, Biodiversity Research Centre, Room 224. Featuring research by grad students, postdocs, faculty, visitors and emeritus faculty interested in biodiversity research. Click here for more information or contact Andrea Thomaz (last name @ biodiversity.ubc.ca) to sign up. schedule...

BRS: Peter Chesson "Aedt: the new equilibrium for the nonequilibrium world of an ever-changing climate"

March 11, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Elizabeth Wolkovich, cookies Ellen N and Carla DF Abstract: The concept of equilibrium has always been controversial but always central in ecological thought. The problem is that most natural populations fluctuate greatly, and may exhibit trends on observable time scales. In the past, there...

BLISS

March 6, 2020
2212 Main Mall
room 224
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Fridays, 16:00 to 17:00, Biodiversity Research Centre, Room 224. Featuring research by grad students, postdocs, faculty, visitors and emeritus faculty interested in biodiversity research. Click here for more information or contact Andrea Thomaz (last name @ biodiversity.ubc.ca) to sign up. schedule...

BRS: Cathy Pfister "The dynamics of Kelp forests in the northeast Pacific and their diverse contributions to coastal productivity."

March 4, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Chris Harley, cookies provided by Alyssa G and Sandra E abstract: As foundational species, the underwater forests comprised of kelp species have known importance as habitat for fishes and invertebrates. I will show kelp forests also have significant effects on seawater chemistry, productivity...