ABS Seminar co-hosted with EEB Presented by William S. Currie, Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan Abstract: Sustainability as a framework for considering human and ecological interactions has evolved over more than three decades.  In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences named Sustainability Science as a new branch of science, fundamentally interdisciplinary and defined […]

ABS Seminar, Co-hosted with Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presented by Dr. Amanda Subalusky, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University Animal migrations can play an important role in moving resources across ecosystem boundaries, and these resource subsidies can strongly influence food web structure and ecosystem function. In the Mara River, East Africa, large animal migrations provide substantial portions of […]

ABS Seminar co-hosted with the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Presented by Dr. Jim Mead, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University (website) Abstract: There are a variety of definitions of a species differing from Biological Species, Paleontological or Fossil (Morphological, Typological, Phenetic) Species, Chronospecies, Phylogenetic Species, Molecular Species, Ecospecies, among others. […]

WFSC Animal Conservation Seminar Dr. Kentaro Inoue, Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M Natural Resource Institute Dr. Kentaro Inoue will present aspects of his research on molecular systematics, taxonomy and conservation of endangered freshwater mussels in the US.

Across the Tree of Life: Interactions in Ecology and Evolution The Ecological Integration Symposium is an interdisciplinary, graduate student led and organized event that unites students and renowned researchers in the themes of ecology, conservation, evolutionary biology, geography, and more. During this free, two-day event we will explore ecology through the theme of Across the Tree […]