Fall Semester 2012
Ecology Seminar Series
Ecology Department
Thursdays 3:35-4:35, 304 Lewis Hall
Advance notice is requested so that accommodations can be made for special needs, thank you.
Date |
Seminar Details |
Aug. 30 |
- David Roberts
- Instructor
- Course Syllabus
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Sept. 6 |
- David Roberts
- Department Head
- Introduction of Department Researchers
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Sept. 13 |
- William Matter
- Professor and Associate Director, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona
- The Fence Effect: What Do We Know? Why Should We Care?
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Sept. 20 |
- Mark Taper
- Research Scientist, MSU & Affiliate Faculty, University of Florida
- Inferential Tools for Risk-based Viable Population Monitoring
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Sept. 27 |
- Vickie Bakker
- Assistant Research Professor, Ecology, MSU
- Population viability management and its application to the conservation of two island endemics
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Oct. 4 |
- Dean Pearson
- Deputy Program Manager, Wildlife and Terrestrial Ecosystems, Rocky Mountain Research Station
- Who has the home team advantage? Applying community assembly rules to invasion - the seed predation filter
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Oct. 11 |
- Estella Leopold- POSTPONED
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Oct. 18 |
- Mike Phillips
- Executive Director of Turner Endangered Species Fund
- The Ultimate Trump Card: Science or Politics
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Oct. 25 |
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Nov. 1 |
- Scott Creel
- Professor, Conservation Biology and Ecology Program, Dept of Ecology, MSU
- 15 is the new 30: elk calf recruitment and population dynamics in the Yellowstone Ecosystem
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Nov. 8 |
- Tor Bertin
- Senior, Biological Sciences, Fish & Wildlife Management and Ecology
- Red in tooth and claw: the ecology of within-Carnivora interspecific killing on and by the Felidae
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Nov. 15 |
- Travis Belote
- Research Ecologist, The Wilderness Society
- From sustainable working lands to resilient wild lands: considering social-ecological perspectives on conservation, restoration and resilience at landscape scales in the Crown of the Continent
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Nov. 22 |
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
Nov. 29 |
- Steven Kalinowski
- Professor, Dept. of Ecology, MSU
- Towards a scientific approach to teaching
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Dec. 6 |
- David Augustine
- Research Ecologist, USDA - Agricultural Research Service, Rangeland Resources Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO
- Is livestock production for the birds? Linking grazing management and grassland bird habitat in the Great Plains
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