View some of the previous events hosted in the last year by the BRC.
Past Events
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March 27, 2020
BLISS: CANCELLED
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. …
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March 25, 2020
BRS: CANCELLED
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…
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March 20, 2020
BLISS: CANCELLED
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. …
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March 18, 2020
BRS: CANCELLED
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…
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March 13, 2020
BLISS: CANCELLED
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. …
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March 11, 2020
BRS: Peter Chesson "Aedt: the new equilibrium for the nonequilibrium world of an ever-changing climate"
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,…
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March 6, 2020
BLISS
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. …
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March 4, 2020
BRS: Cathy Pfister "The dynamics of Kelp forests in the northeast Pacific and their diverse contributions to coastal productivity."
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,…
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February 28, 2020
BLISS
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. …
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February 26, 2020
BRS: Evolution lecture Nancy Emery "The evolution of dispersal in heterogeneous environments"
host: graduate students, cookies Pirmin N and Tom B Abstract: Dispersal plays a central role in adaptive evolution by determining the range of environments that are colonized and the extent of gene flow that occurs among populations. At the same time, an individual’s dispersal…