Past Events

BRS Elena Bennett: Monitoring, modelling, and managing multiple ecosystem services in Canada’s working landscapes

host: UBC-O Title: Monitoring, modelling, and managing multiple ecosystem services in Canada’s working landscapes Abstract: The current scale, rate, and intensity of anthropogenic change is unprecedented, and has evoked broad discussion about how these changes will affect the…

BRS Jennifer Gremer: Seeds of change: evolutionary ecology of germination timing in a variable and changing world

host: Williams Lab Title: Seeds of change:  evolutionary ecology of germination timing in a variable and changing world Abstract: In variable and changing environments, timing critical life history transitions such as emergence and reproduction with favorable conditions can be…

BRS No seminar this week

Biodiversity Public Lecture: Peter Marra "The Epic Migrations of Birds"

Biodiversity Lecture Series with Peter Marra On November 4, Dr. Peter Marra, Professor and Director of the Georgetown Environmental Initiative, will present about the unknown migrations of the birds, explaining the latest technologies used for tracking and why it’s important…

BRS Vianey Leos Barajas: Fitting hidden Markov models to ecological time series

host: Wolkovich Lab Title: Fitting hidden Markov models to ecological time series Abstract: Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are an increasingly popular statistical framework for the modeling of ecological time series as they assume that observations are manifestations of an underlying…

BRS Joana Meier: The role of hybridization in adaptive radiation

host: Schluter Lab Title: The role of hybridization in adaptive radiation Abstract: While hybridization is traditionally thought to counteract diversification, it can sometimes facilitate rapid adaptive radiations by instantly generating large genetic variation. I will show…

BRS Jeff Ross-Ibarra: A Tale of Two Teosintes (and the origins of modern maize)

host: Biodiv Postdocs (Julia Kreiner) Title: A Tale of Two Teosintes (and the origins of modern maize) Abstract: In the talk I first discuss the role of adaptive introgression into maize from its wild relative teosinte. I then show how this admixture seems to have played a role in…

BRS Al Uy: On the Origin of Species On Islands: Signal Divergence and Speciation in Solomon Island Flycatchers

host: Irwin Lab Title: On the Origin of Species On Islands: Signal Divergence and Speciation in Solomon Island Flycatchers Abstract: My long-term work in the Solomon Islands takes advantage of a single species of bird with populations on the verge of splitting into several…

BRS Sarah Benson-Amram: Does cognition facilitate the adaptation of wildlife to urban environments? A case study of raccoons

host: Richardson Lab Title: Does cognition facilitate the adaptation of wildlife to urban environments? A case study of raccoons Abstract: The ability of animals to perceive, learn about, and respond to the world around them has profound fitness consequences. Advanced cognitive…

BRS Masato Yamamichi: Rapid evolution promotes species coexistence via sexual interactions and temporal fluctuations

host: Germain Lab Title: Rapid evolution promotes species coexistence via sexual interactions and temporal fluctuations Abstract: How does rapid evolution promote species coexistence? Previous studies have focused on resource partitioning and the trade-off between intra- and…