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PUBLIC TALK: Conservation and Restoration in the Anthropocene

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Today's date is Friday, March 29, 2024
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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
Location Gentilli Lecture Theatre, Second Floor, Geography and Geology Building, UWA
Contact Institute of Advanced Studies <[email protected]> : 6488 1340
URL http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/seastedt
Start Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:00
End Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:00
RSVP RSVP is required.
Submitted by Audrey Barton <[email protected]>
Last Updated Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:06
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