Les Ecologistes

'Les Ecol' presents lunch time seminar talks of general ecological and evolutionary interest, Thursdays 12:30-13:30 in B9242. (Unless noted*)

*In fall 2021, Les Ecologistes talks will be given over ZOOM. The login for this semester is below.

Meeting ID: 616 7237 9857
Password: 975054

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
23-Sept-21	Bernie Crespi	Biological Sciences, SFU	Batural Selection: The Evolutionary Ecology of SARS-CoV-2 The following links provide some background reading to Dr. Crespi's talk: https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/2020/1/314/5923290 https://mast.queensu.ca/~tday/pdf/Otto2021.pdf
7-Oct-21	Krista De Groot	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Seasonal patterns of bird mortality and species vulnerable to collisions with buildings on the West Coast
28-Oct-21	Wade VanderWright	Biological Sciences, SFU	Gill slits provide a window into the respiratory physiology of sharks
4-Nov-21	Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor	School of Resource and Environmental Management, SFU	Enabling conditions for a Blue Economy
11-Nov-21	Samantha Sherman	Biological Sciences, SFU	Diversity, Abundance, and Distribution of Rays on Tropical Coral Reefs
18-Nov-21	Joey Bernhardt	Zoology, UBC	Towards a coherent and mechanistic science of global change: from cells to ecosystems and human well-being
25-Nov-21	Devin DeZwaan	Centre for Applied Conservation Research, UBC	Coping strategies of alpine birds in response to environmental stressors across the annual cycle
2-Dec-21	Asim Renyard	Biological Sciences, SFU	Bimodal pheromone and vibratory alarm communication in Western carpenter ants
9-Dec-21	Michael Price	Biological Sciences, SFU	Centennial-scale impacts of climate, fishing, and enhancement on Skeena River sockeye salmon

Spring 2020

16-Jan-20	Ron Ydenberg	Attack of the Dutch killer muskrats
*23-Jan-20 Starts at 12:00pm	Kate Fremlin	Ecological Impacts and Risks of Rodenticides to Owls in North Vancouver
30-Jan-20	Scott Flemming	Unravelling the indirect and cascading effects of hyperabundant geese on Arctic-nesting shorebirds
06-Feb-20	Rémi Matthey-Doret	Background selection and FST: Consequences for detecting local adaptation / Plasticity and Developmental Robustness
13-Feb-20	Norah Brown	Ecological responses to ocean acidification
20-Feb-20	N/A	READING BREAK
27-Feb-20	Elijah Reyes	The coevolution of dispersal and resource traits in multi-resource landscapes
05-Mar-20	Andrew Simon	Biodiversity beyond boundaries: networking biodiversity projects in the Salish Sea
12-Mar-20	Debora Obrist	Islands fed by the sea: how marine-derived nutrients affect terrestrial bird ecology
19-Mar-20	Asim Renyard & Jaime Chalissery	There and back again: trail following behavior and foraging ecology of ants
26-Mar-20	Melissa Guzman	Using occupancy models on pollination networks
02-Apr-20	David Moulton	Examining the interplay of multiple stressors affecting migrating Fraser River sockeye salmon
09-Apr-20	Evan Hersh	A clone together: exploring the causes and consequences of range divergence between sexual and asexual Easter Daisies
16-Apr-20	Kieran Cox	Coastal Shellfish: Cultivation, Marine Subsidies, and Implications for Nearshore Biodiversity

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