Date

Title

Presenter

September 17

Pre-Pleistocene population structure of tropical trees: resilience under climate change

Christopher Dick, EEB professor

September 24

no seminar

October 1

The influence of dispersal on the spatial structure of two codispersed palms of the Peruvian Amazon

Juanita Choo, graduate student, University of Texas at Austin

October 8

One piece of a complex puzzle: fungal pest control in a tropical coffee agroecosystem

Doug Jackson, Ph.D. Student, EEB

October 15
Location: Modern Language Building, Lecture Room 1

Student evaluation seminar:
Resolving phylogenetic relationships among Asian colobine monkeys with estimates of the underlying species tree

Lucy Tran, Ph.D. Student, EEB

October 22

Evolution of mutualisms

Egbert Leigh, Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

October 29
Location: Modern Language Building, Lecture Room 1

Student evaluation seminar:
Dietary niche breadth of Myotis lucifugus in northern Michigan

Emily Sluzas, Ph.D. Student, EEB

November 5
Location: Modern Language Building, Lecture Room 1

Student evaluation seminar:
The future of forest dynamics: growth response of woody vines under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide

David Marvin, Ph.D. Student, EEB

November 12

Spiders associated with ants in a coffee agroecosystem

Linda Marin, SNRE graduate student

November 19

Neutral, semi-neutral, quasi-semi-neutral, niche-like, and quasi-niche-like theoretical speculations about ant communities in Chiapas Mexico

John Vandermeer, EEB Professor

November 26

Thanksgiving

December 3

Using plant DNA barcodes to reconstruct diets of herbivorous beetles in Panama

Brian Sedio, Ph.D. Student, EEB