Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Seminars
Spring 2012
All Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Seminars are held Mondays at 3:30PM, in 112 Newins-Ziegler Hall. Cookies and coffee are always served.
9-Jan
Dr. Steve Lougheed, Queen's University
“Range dynamics, contact zones and the origins of diversity”
16-Jan
Holiday
23-Jan
The seminar for this day has been canceled
30-Jan
Dr. Josiah Townsend, UF
“Integrative taxonomy reveals an hotspot of amphibian diversity in the Chortis Block of Central America”
6-Feb
Dr. Mark Bonta, Delta State University
“Chortis Highlands: biodiversity, endemism, and ethnoecology”
13-Feb
Jacob Marlin
“An integrated approach to biodiversity conservation in Belize, re-discovering wild Harpy Eagles”
20-Feb
Prof. A. Monadjem, University of Swaziland
“Bats as biological pest control agents in African agro-ecosystems”
27-Feb
Dr. Robin Chazdon, University of Conneticut
“From pastures to forests: Successional dynamics of tropical rain forests”
5-Mar
Spring Break
12-Mar
Claudia Penaloza, US Goelogical Survey
“Amazon turtle harvest and refining manatee survival estimates, reality and simulation”
19-Mar
Dr. Emilio Bruna, WEC
“Plant demography in Brazil's Cerrado - a political, agricultural, and biological hotspot”
26-Mar
Dr. Joe Mendelson, Zoo Atlanta
“Global Amphibian Extinctions: Lessons from the Lost”
2-Apr
Santiago Espinosa, WEC PhD
TBA
9-Apr
Emiliano Ramalho, WEC PhD
TBA
16-Apr
Dr. Jeff Gore (FWC), FL Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
“Perdido Key beach mouse: conservation of a chronically endangered species”
