02/04/2009 Thiago Rangel, University of Connecticut Simulating Spatial Patterns in Bird Species Richness under Niche Dynamics Processes
Host: J. Wiens
02/11/2009 Erika Edwards, Brown University Why the cactus? An historical perspective on a major evolutionary innovation
Host: R. Geeta
02/18/2009 Angelique Corthals, Stony Brook University Wrath of the Gods: Historical Ecology of Infectious Diseases
Host: D. Dykhuizen
02/25/2009 Roger Arditi, INAPG Complexity, stability, and stinking French cheese
Host: L. Ginzburg
03/04/2009 Robert P. Anderson, CUNY Integrating museum specimens, phylogenetics, and GIS in biogeographic studies of Neotropical mammals
Host: C. Graham
03/11/2009 Simon Levin, Princeton University The Challenge of Sustainability
Host: R. Akcakaya/Ginzburg speaker
03/18/2009 Patricia Wright, Stony Brook University Climate change, cyclones and lemur biology
Host: M. Bell
03/25/2009 Jacqueline Webb, University of Rhode Island Non-Visual Prey Detection in Fishes: Development and Evolution of an Adaptive Phenotype in the Mechanosensory Lateral Line System
Host: M. Bell
04/01/2009 Tiffany Knight, Washington University Interspecific interacations as drivers of population dynamics of rare and invasive plants
Host: Students/Slobodkin Speaker
04/22/2009 Carl Schlichting, University of Connecticut Dissecting an evolutionary radiation: leaf shape diversification in Pelargonium
Host: M. Pigliucci
04/29/2009 Francesca Gherardi, Universita di Firenze Invasive Crayfish of the World: Problems and Solutions
Host: D. Padilla
05/06/2009 Daniel Weinreich, Brown University Predicting evolutionary trajectories on adaptive landscapes in principle and in practice
Host: D. Dykhuizen
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