View some of the previous events hosted in the last year by the BRC.
Past Events
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November 25, 2020
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…
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November 18, 2020
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…
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November 4, 2020
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…
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October 28, 2020
BRS: Krithi Karanth "Transforming Human-Wildlife Interactions Using Compensation, Mitigation and Conservation Education"
NOTICE this seminar will be held at 9:00am. host: Claire Kremen Abstract: Addressing human-wildlife interactions are a global conservation challenge. The role of mitigation, compensation payments and conservation education in resolving human-wildlife conflict are widely debated. I will…