PUBLIC TALK: Conservation and Restoration in the Anthropocene
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A public lecture by Tim Seastedt, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Fellow, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado.
Conservationists are faced with managing for environmental changes they cannot control. Ecosystems now experience longer growing seasons and altered seasonality and amounts of precipitation. The plant communities are exposed to increased carbon dioxide and plant-available nutrients that differentially affect competitive interactions within the plant community. ‘Extreme events’ such as fire and floods, which historically have been factors for natural ecosystem renewal, now can function as transformative events. These environmental drivers are acting upon both native and introduced species, with the latter group having the potential to act as ‘wild cards’ in terms of community assembly and reorganization. This talk will present a number of case studies from North America and suggest approaches that may mitigate some of the daunting challenges to preserving biodiversity in an era of rapid environmental change.
Cost: Free, but RSVP required via http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/seastedt
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