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SEMINARS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY
BIOLOGY
Thursday 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm,
Ackert Hall, Room 324
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Seminars in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
are a weekly series of presentations and
workshops that are hosted by members of the Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology Section in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University.
Seminars in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are informal and we have
traditionally had a diverse mix of presentations from local or visiting
speakers, including graduate students, postdocs and new faculty.
The seminar format is typically a 40 to 50 minute presentation followed
by a 10 to 20 minute question period. We encourage all interested
persons to attend the seminars - folks from other departments, Konza
docents, and the public are welcome to join us. The seminar
coordinators for Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 are
Brett K. Sandercock (bsanderc@k-state.edu)
and
Jesse B. Nippert (nippert@k-state.edu).
Please send us your suggestions for speakers! |
Seminar notices
Weekly notices regarding the EEB
seminar series are posted to the EEB_Seminar mailing list.
1. To join the list, send an e-mail
message to
listserv@listserv.ksu.edu
with no subject and the following line in the text of the message:
sub eeb_seminar yourfirstname
yourlastname
You will receive a confirmation e-mail with additional instructions
on posting messages, how to customize your account and signing off from
the list.
2. To post messages to the group, send e-mail to
eeb_seminar@listserv.ksu.edu
3. To leave the list, send an e-mail
message to
listserv@listserv.ksu.edu
with no subject and the following line in the text of the message:
signoff eeb_seminar
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SPRING 2009 - SEMINAR SCHEDULE
(Print a Copy) |
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Date |
Seminar Speakers and Titles of
Presentations |
| January 22 |
Speaker:
Dr. Robert
G. Moyle, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Natural
History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas
Title: Patterns of diversification in Solomon Island birds |
| January 29 |
Speaker:
Andrea Loayza, Department of Biology, University of Missouri at St.
Louis
Title: Species-specific consequences of seed dispersal for
population growth rate of Guettarda viburnoides (RUB.): When a
good disperser goes bad |
| February 5 |
Speaker:
Dr. Martin A. Stapanian, U.S. Geological Survey, Lake Erie Biological
Station (Ohio)
Title: Decreased catchability of age-0 yellow perch associated
with establishment of dreissenid mussels |
| February 12 |
Speaker:
Dr. Philip A. Fay, Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory,
USDA-ARS, Temple, Texas
Title: Grassland responses to atmospheric carbon dioxide:
Lessons from 20 years of CO2 gradient research |
| February 19 |
Speaker:
Dr.
Eileen Hebets, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska at
Lincoln
Title: Complex courtship signaling and variable female
preferences in wolf spiders |
| February 26 |
Speaker:
Jonathan Z. Shik, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology,
University of Oklahoma
Title: Metabolic scaling reveals that colonies are not the sum
of their ants |
| March 5 |
Speaker:
Dr.
Helen Alexander, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University
of Kansas
Title: Detection, survival rates, and dynamics of a cryptic
plant, Asclepias meadii: applications of mark-recapture models to
long-term monitoring studies of plants |
| March 12 |
Speakers:
Alexis Reed and Lisa Tiemann, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University
of Kansas
Title (Reed): Growth trend and isotopic evidence of oak decline
in the Boston Mountains of Arkansas
Title (Tiemann): Linking microbial community function with
community structure in Kansan grasslands |
| March 19 |
Spring Break - No Seminar
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| March 26 |
Speaker:
Dr. J. Checo Colón-Gaud, Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University
at Carbondale
Title: Consumer response to amphibian losses in tropical upland
streams |
| April 2 |
Speaker:
Dr. Drew
Tyre, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Title: Parapatric boundaries are an emergent property? |
| April 9 |
Speakers:
Daniel Catlin and Joy Felio, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Title: Population dynamics of Piping Plovers on the Missouri
River: the effects of large-scale management |
| April 16 |
Speaker:
Dr. Gail Wilson, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management,
Oklahoma State University
Title: The functioning of grasslands: Looking belowground for
answers |
| April 23 |
Speaker:
Brett Benz, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University
of Kansas
Title: Mouse-warblers, Fantails, and Bowerbirds: deciphering
the phylogeographic patterns within New Guinea’s montane avifauna |
| April 30 |
Speaker:
Dr. Christopher Rogers Department of Biological Sciences, Wichita State
University
Title: Songbird ecology: Demographic analyses and optimal body
mass models |
| May 7 |
Speakers:
Bridget Sousa, Department of Biology, University of Kentucky and Rebecca Lohnes, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University
Title (Sousa): The effects of grassland management on mating patterns
of Dickcissels
Title (Lohnes): Breeding ecology of nightjars at Konza Prairie |
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FALL 2008 - SEMINAR SCHEDULE
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Date |
Seminar Speakers and Titles of
Presentations |
| August 12 (special time) |
Speaker:
Dr. Jodie N. Price, University of New England (NSW Australia)
Title: Strategic grazing for the the control of the invasive wetland
weed lippia (Phyla canescens) |
| August 28 |
Speakers:
Cynthia Chang and
Meghan Avolio, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale
University
Title (Chang): Relationships between genotypic and phenotypic
variation of a dominant species (Andropogon gerardii), community
diversity, and productivity in the tallgrass prairie.
Title (Avolio): Effect of climate change on the genotypic
diversity of a dominant species, Andropogon gerardii |
| September 4 |
Speaker:
Dr. Deon van der Merwe, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State
University
Title: Environmental effects on forage nitrate accumulation |
| September
11 |
Speaker:
Dr. John Blair, Division of Biology, Kansas State University
Title: Planning for LTER activities and renewal at Konza
Prairie |
| September 18 |
Speaker:
Dr. John Briggs, Division of Biology,
Kansas State University
Title: Global change from local drivers: causes and
consequences of woody plant encroachment worldwide |
| September 25 |
Speaker:
Dr. Nathaniel A. Brunsell, Department of Geography (Atmospheric Sciences
Program), University of Kansas
Title: Assessing the predictability of the water cycle: a
multiscale framework |
| October 2 |
Speaker:
Dr. Brian Maricle, Department of Biological Sciences, Ft. Hayes State
University
Title: Environmental influences on salt marsh grasses: the
roles of water-logging, salinity, and sulfide |
| October 9 |
Speaker:
Dr. Douglas Goodin, Department of Geography, Kansas State University
Title: The impact of rapid anthropogenic land cover change on
hantavirus ecology in Paraguay |
| October 16 |
Speakers: EEB Graduate Students
Title: Graduate students on parade (4 slides/4 min) |
| October 23 |
Speakers: EEB Graduate Students
Title: Graduate students on parade (4 slides/4 min) |
| October 30 |
Speaker:
Beatriz Blanco Fontao, Dept. Biología de Organismos y Sistemas,
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Title: Trophic ecology of a peripheral capercaillie population
as a mechanism of habitat selection |
| November 6 |
Speaker:
Dr.
Brenda Koerner, Department of Biological Sciences, Emporia State
University
Title: Urban impacts on desert ecosystem function |
| November 13 |
Speaker:
Dr. John Blair, Division of Biology, Kansas State University
Title: [LTER seminar cancelled] |
| November 20 |
Speaker:
Dr. Chris Toomajian, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State
University
Title: Understanding natural genetic variation in
Arabidopsis |
| November 27
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American Thanksgiving - No Seminar
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| December 4 |
Speaker:
Dr. Greg Houseman, Department of Biological Sciences, Wichita State
University
Title: Impacts of perturbations on community convergence,
divergence, and formation of multiple community states |
| December 11 |
Speaker:
Dr. Taki Kawakami,
Division of Biology, Kansas State
University
Title: Grasshoppers in Down Under - speciation and chromosomal
rearrangements |
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