Studying the ecological consequences of global warming
Studying the ecological consequences of global warming: insights into species distributions, migrations, and evolutionary responses. A lecture by Dr. John Harte, University of California, Berkeley
We are starting to understand that global warming has the potential to greatly impact all aspects of the natural world and to alter weather patterns, landscapes, and the oceans as we know them. For the most part, however, the popular focus on changes to weather patterns and their impacts on our daily lives leave less room for discussion of other impacts that are somewhat less tangible to us but no less important. For example, how will the changes in weather affect wild-lands and the plants and animals that live in them, as well as ecosystem processes such as CO2 consumption and water cycling? We also encounter little information on how the various ecological impacts of global warming are studied, and how scientists develop an understanding of how those impacts might play out over time.
Join us for a lecture by Dr. John Harte, Professor of Ecosystem Sciences at UC Berkeley. Dr. Harte began his studies of the ecological impacts of global warming 22 years ago, when the effects of global warming started to become clearly evident but the general concept had not been popularly accepted. Through his timely and innovative research, Dr. Harte has become one of the preeminent experts in the field, and is greatly contributing to our understanding of the interconnections between climate and ecosystems.
If you would like to attend, please email or call the McLaughlin reserve to register.
Cathy Koehler
mclaughlin@ucdavis.edu
(707)995 9005
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UPCOMING EVENTS APRIL-JULY: see the McLaughlin website http://nrs.ucdavis.edu/mclaughlin.html for more information.
We are starting to understand that global warming has the potential to greatly impact all aspects of the natural world and to alter weather patterns, landscapes, and the oceans as we know them. For the most part, however, the popular focus on changes to weather patterns and their impacts on our daily lives leave less room for discussion of other impacts that are somewhat less tangible to us but no less important. For example, how will the changes in weather affect wild-lands and the plants and animals that live in them, as well as ecosystem processes such as CO2 consumption and water cycling? We also encounter little information on how the various ecological impacts of global warming are studied, and how scientists develop an understanding of how those impacts might play out over time.
Join us for a lecture by Dr. John Harte, Professor of Ecosystem Sciences at UC Berkeley. Dr. Harte began his studies of the ecological impacts of global warming 22 years ago, when the effects of global warming started to become clearly evident but the general concept had not been popularly accepted. Through his timely and innovative research, Dr. Harte has become one of the preeminent experts in the field, and is greatly contributing to our understanding of the interconnections between climate and ecosystems.
If you would like to attend, please email or call the McLaughlin reserve to register.
Cathy Koehler
mclaughlin@ucdavis.edu
(707)995 9005
********************************
UPCOMING EVENTS APRIL-JULY: see the McLaughlin website http://nrs.ucdavis.edu/mclaughlin.html for more information.