Tropical Biology Seminars

Fall 2007 tropical biology seminars

Seminars are held from 12 - 1 p.m. on Thursdays in Room 2111 Kraus Natural Science Building



Date

Title

Presenter

September 6

No seminar

September 13

Animal pollination and the maintenance of tropical tree diversity

Professor Christopher Dick

September 20

A new (or perhaps not) theory of tropical species diversity

Professor John H. Vandermeer

September 27

Resilience to climatic variability effects in malaria of Vanuatu mediated by Insecticide treated bednets

Luis Fernando Chaves, EEB graduate student

October 4

Pollination and gene flow of native plants in a Mexican coffee agroecosystem

Shalene Jha, EEB graduate student

October 11

Foraging patterns of forest birds in the coffee agroecosystem

Casey Taylor, SNRE graduate student

October 18

Complex coexistence in a community of tropical twig-nesting ants: neutral versus niche processes

George Livingston, EEB undergraduate student

October 25

Are mountain passes higher in the tropics? Examples from Andean rodents

Diego Alvarado Serrano, EEB graduate student

November 1

Comparative phylogeography of figs and fig wasps

Roosevelt García Villacorta, EEB graduate student

November 8

Control of arthropod populations by bats and birds in a coffee agroforest

Kim Williams-Guillén, SNRE postdoctoral researcher

November 15

Spatial dimension of tropical beetle diversity

Heidi Liere, EEB graduate student

November 22

Thanksgiving break

 

November 29

Phylogeny and biogeography of Chamaesyce (Euphorbiaceae)

Ya Yang, EEB graduate student

December 6

Seed dispersal in a tropical legume tree

Javier Ruiz, EEB graduate student

December 13

Community phylogenetics in tropical ecology - what can we learn?

Brian Sedio, EEB graduate student


Please contact Christopher Dick, if you would like to reserve a spot, or have any comments or questions.

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