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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
21
Oct
2021
E&E Webinar: Investigating effects of social context on complex cooperative behavior »
Social behaviors are essential to the lives of many animals. “Complex” social behaviors are interactions among conspecifics take many forms, including repeated associations with particular individuals, interactions that differ across different contexts, or coordinated behaviors among many individuals.
08
Oct
2021
E&E PhD Exit Webinar: Get high with your weed: lessons from a tropical ‘seaweed-invertebrate-fish’ food chain »
Canopy-forming seaweeds, generally brown macroalgae, are worldwide dominant primary producers and habitat constructors in our marine environments.
07
Oct
2021
E&E Webinar: Marine Threats »
Invited Panel: John Morrongiello and Jennie Mallela
23
Sep
2021
E&E Webinar: Philosophy of science »
Invited Panel: Simone Blomberg and Shinichi Nakagawa
02
Sep
2021
E&E Webinar: Simpson’s Question: How does behaviour determine evolution? »
For more than 50 years, the scientific study of animal behaviour has been defined by Tinbergen’s Four Questions. Two of his questions consider the connection between evolution and animal behaviour. They ask: how is behaviour is adaptive, and what is its evolutionary history?
12
Aug
2021
Ecology and Evolution Discussions Down Under: Human Culture »
Invited Panel: Michael Kasumovic & Dominique Potvin
06
Aug
2021
E&E PhD Exit Webinar: Using information from others: social learning and predator avoidance eavesdropping »
Using information adaptively is crucial to survival. Accordingly, animals have evolved sensory and cognitive systems for detecting and processing information, including from other individuals.
05
Aug
2021
E&E Webinar: Could a Fembot Army Disarm the Incel Insurrection? »
New developments in robotics, virtual reality, and especially artificial intelligence (AI) are giving rise to a new type of technologies: the ‘artificial intimacies’.
27
May
2021
Ecology and Evolution Discussions Down Under: Evolutionary Interactions »
Invited Panel: Ary Hoffmann, Karyn Johnson, Ben Schwessinger
14
May
2021
E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Using reconstructed visual reality in insect navigation research »
Visual insect navigation is an active research topic. Insects have low resolution eyes and a tiny brain, yet they continuously solve very complex navigational problems; an ability that underpins fundamental biological processes such as pollination and parental care.
13
May
2021
E&E Webinar: Social interactions can generate sexual selection on brains and behavior: insights from the ocellated wrasse »
Sexual selection is an important evolutionary force, driving the evolution of striking traits that can appear not only beautiful, but also counter-intuitive and even ridiculous.
06
May
2021
E&E PhD Exit Webinar: Conservation and management of the forty-spotted pardalote »
Despite conservation efforts, the number of species that have recovered after management remain small. Low success rate in species management can be attributed to severe lack of funding for conservation and ‘evidence complacency’ (i.e. use of anecdotes rather than evidence) by many conservation practitioners.
30
Apr
2021
E&E MPhil Exit Seminar: The effects of water on life-history and mating in seed beetles »
How animals adapt to environmental stress has long been of concern. Studies looking at effects of resource limitation often focus on food. Water is also essential for life and can often be limiting in the environment.
29
Apr
2021
Ecology and Evolution Discussions Down Under: The speed of evolution »
Ecology and Evolution Discussions Down Under: The speed of evolution
22
Apr
2021
E&E Webinar: Environments, kinship, and the evolution of societies »
There is great variation in how individuals interact with each other. Variation in sociality has been argued to reflect adaptations to the environment, but the exact links between local conditions and social behaviors are often unclear.