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Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series
Seminars from the RSB Division of Ecology and Evolution (E&E).
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Past events
24
Mar
2020
Remote Sensing of Wildfire: Fuels, Fire and Recovery in a Changing World »
Dr Dar Roberts is a Professor in Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he has served since 1994. He is the UCSB Principal Investigator of the Southern California Wildfire Hazard Center and leads the group in developing wildfire fuels maps and mapping fuel moisture using remote sensing.
20
Mar
2020
CANCELLED - E&E PhD Exit Seminar: The insight of Eucalyptus pauciflora (snow gum) genome »
In this talk, I will introduce a suite of new methods and biological insights gained from the assembly and analysis of Eucalyptus genomes. I will start by introducing new methods of assembling and assessing nuclear, mitochondrial, and chloroplast genomes with long- and short-read data.
17
Mar
2020
CANCELLED - Females; Form, Function and Fitness »
CANCELLED - How do we explain costly and ridiculous traits like bright colours, elaborate ornaments, exaggerated weapons and lethal aggression?
13
Mar
2020
E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Leek Orchids versus Extinction: understanding mycorrhizal fungi to save a genus of threatened orchids »
Australia is a global hotspot for orchid diversity, but also has one of the highest rates of orchid extinctions in the world.
10
Mar
2020
The Wonderful World of Marsupial Chromosomics »
Australia is home to a diverse range of marsupials, which are a treasure trove of interesting biology. Marsupial genomes, which are packaged into beautiful, large chromosomes, provide a powerful resource for studying the mechanisms of genome evolution.
03
Mar
2020
Explaining imperfect mimicry - the case of ant mimics »
Batesian mimics are deliciously palatable species that gain protection from a predator by resembling a defended or unpalatable model. Theory predicts that mimics that closely resemble their model should have the greatest advantage, while inaccurate mimics should be recognised and attacked by predators.
28
Feb
2020
E&E Special Seminar: Behavioral ecology of swarming in the Western honey bee »
Animals that travel in groups must synchronize the timing of impending departures to ensure group cohesion. Until recently, the ultimate and proximate mechanisms used by honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies to organize the departure of a swarm from its nest remained a mystery.
25
Feb
2020
Why we should all study (and play) video games - an exploration of human evolution and behaviour »
Are you actually reading this? Oh wow. Okay... I wasn't really ready for that. Umm, geez...alright, this talk is going to be about video games and why people play them. A little bit about how we can use technology to explore human behaviour.
18
Feb
2020
Scales feathers or fur? Babies or eggs? What matters for vertebrate reproduction? »
Vertebrates take very different routes to reproduction and caring for their young. Broods can be small or large, frequent or infrequent, and of large or small progeny.
10
Feb
2020
E&E Special Seminar: Understanding the non-problem of collinearity in multiple regression analysis: a (minimally mathematical) dissection of what multiple regression does »
Michael works on evolutionary quantitative genetics and statistical methods.
07
Feb
2020
E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Biodiversity through space and time: explorations in macroecology »
A central aim of ecology is to characterise and explain how species interact with each other and their environment and looking at how these interactions scale up to shape global patterns of biodiversity is the key idea behind the study of macroecology.
17
Jan
2020
Diversity of Serendipitaceae Mycorrhizal Associations of Australian Terrestrial Orchids »
PhD exit Seminar Diversity of Serendipitaceae Mycorrhizal Associations of Australian Terrestrial Orchids
17
Dec
2019
Unraveling the impact of regional warming on Antarctic vascular plants: Learning from an in situ warming experiment »
What special features do species that flourish in harsh environments possess? This has been an enigmatic question for scientists.
13
Dec
2019
E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Refugia, lizards and northern Australia »
Understanding what has driven the distribution of biodiversity across the world is a central question in biogeography.
13
Dec
2019
E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Linking Ecology and Evolution to understand diversification in diverse Tropical Savannas »
What promotes biological diversity? Accurately recognising and describing patterns of diversity is fundamental to understanding the evolutionary and ecological processes underpinning diversification.
