A graduate student ecology seminar meets once per week to discuss
topical issues in ecology. All are invited.
In Spring, the seminar meets 3:00-3:50 PM on Mon in LSII Room
430 to discuss classic ecological papers.
Lunch-time brown-bag seminars
All talks will be on Fridays in LS II 450 and begin at 12:00
PM unless otherwise indicated or announced.
Feb1 Clint Meyer (PLB) Soil and plant recovery in restorations
of the Platte River valley.
Feb 15 Cary Krajewski (Zool). Complete mitochondrial genomes
in the phylogeny of cranes.
Feb 29 Eric Holzmuller (For). Ecology of flowering dogwood
(Cornus florida L.) in response to anthracnose and fire
in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA
March 7 Ulrich Reichard (Anthro). Long-term research on a
long-lived mammal: behavioral-ecology of white-handed gibbons
at Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
March 27 THURSDAY.John Day (LSU). The Mississippi delta as
a model of ecosystem restoration in times of climate change and
energy scarcity. LSIII Auditorium, 4:00 pm.
April 4 Justin Schoof (Geog). Changes in the length of the
frost-free season in the Midwestern USA from historical records
and climate model projections.
April 24 THURSDAY Gary Mittelbach (MSU). Diversity Across
Latitudes. Parkinson, Rm. 124, 4:00 pm.
April 25 FRIDAY. Kay Gross (MSU). Do clonal species modify
the effects of resource heterogeneity on plant diversity in grasslands?"
in Lawson Rm. 131, 12:00 pm.
Past Seminars
Fall 2007
Sept. 26 Karl Williard (Forestry). Nutrient and sediments
in riparian buffers.
Oct. 10 Laurie Achenbach (Microbiology). Microbial ecology
of bioremediation.
Oct. 24 Nicholas Pinter (Geology). Human magnification of
flooding on U.S. and European Rivers.
Nov. 7 Clay Nielson (Wildlife/Zoology). Cougars in the Midwest.
Nov. 28 Robert Colombo (Fisheries/Zoology). Impacts of commercial
harvest on riverine species with implications to differing life
histories.
Spring 2007
Jan 24th: Greg Nowacki (USFS Region 9 Ecologist) Altered
Disturbance Regimes: The Demise of Fire in the Eastern United
States.
Feb 21st: Charles M. Ruffner (SIUC Forestry) - Lessons in
Conservation Biology from Killarney National Park, Ireland. (Room
TBA)
March 7th: John Groninger (SIUC Forestry) Forest Resources
of Afghanistan.
March 21st: Scott Meiners, (Eastern Illinois University,
Dept. of Biological Sciences) - Title TBA
April 4th: Eric Shauber (SIUC Zool) Contacts among deer:
who, where, when, and why?
Fall 2006
September 20 Ken Anderson (SIUC Geol): Ambers: What they
are and what they can tell us about paleoenvironments.
October 11 Lisa Ainsworth: Exploring the Effects of Increasing
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ozone on Agricultural Ecosystems..
November 8 Mike Sears (SICU Zool): Evaluating tests of the
cost-benefit model of thermoregulation: perspectives from space.
November 15 Brian Benscoter (SIUC PLB): Post-fire compositional
and functional recovery of boreal bogs.
November 29 (2:00 PM) Loretta Battaglia (SIUC PLB): Disassembly
and reassembly of coastal plant communities: The role of abiotic
and biotic filters in seaward and landward migrations.
Spring 2006
Feb 15 Mike Sears (Zool): Ecophysiology/Animals
Feb 23 Thursday 4:30, LSIII Auditorium Elizabeth Loos (President
and CEO, Organization of Tropical Studies): Tropical Ecology.
Mar Thursday 4:30, LSIII Auditorium Roy Stein (The Ohio State
University): Aquatic Ecology/Fisheries.
Mar 22, Eric Hellgren (Cooperative Wildlife Lab): Black bears
in the Tex-Mex metapopulation: Rise and fall of a satellite.
Apr 5 Chad Montgomery (Zool): Snake ecology.
Apr 19 Jon Schoonover (For): Hydrology.
Fall 2005
Sept. Sara Baer, (SIUC PLB): Changes in Soil N Dynamics from
Exotic Shrub Encroachment in an Agricultural Landscape: Multiple
Positive Feedbacks.
September 22: Gary Barrett (University of Georgia): Challenges
of Integrative Science.
Oct. 5 Frank Wilhelm, (SIUC Zool): Ecological Investigations
in Campus Lake and Shawnee Forest Wells.
Oct. 19 Greg Whitledge (SIUC Fisheries and Zoology): Applications
of Otolith Chemistry for Reconstructing Fish Environmental History.
Nov. 9 John Haddock (SIUC Micro): Microbial Degradation of
Polychlorinated Biphenyls.
Nov. 30 Richard Thomas, (SIUC Zool): Mite development and
genetics, and why ecologists might be interested.
Spring 2005
Jan 26 Mae Davenport (For): Collaborative natural resource
management: building partnerships in rural communities.
Feb 23 Brian Klubeck (PSGA): Enhancement of soybean inoculation
for maximizing yields.
March 9 Greg Nowacki (Regional Ecologist, USDA Forest Service,
Milwaukee, WI ): Altered disturbance regimes: The demise of fire
in the east.
March 23. Laura Kirwan (Univ. College, Dublin): Measuring
the functional value of biodiversity.
March 31 Jim Reichman (National Center for Ecological Analysis
and Synthesis, UC Santa Barbara):
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
Belowground Herbivores as "Keystone Consumers"
and Ecosystem Engineers.
April 20 Alan Covich (Director, Insitute of Ecology, Univ.
Georgia):
The role of biodiversity in benthic processing of organic
matter in streams.
How does the Institute of Ecology help integrate disciplines?
Fall 2004
Sept 3 Henri Schurtz (Math): Some Mathematical Models of
Population Ecology Based on SDEs (Stochastic Differential Equations)
Sept 17 Wanxiao Sun (Geog): Separation of Dead Tree Crowns
from the Oak Woodland Forest Mosaic by Integrating Spatial Information
October 1 Anita Kelly (Fisheries): Role of Experience in
Juvenile Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) and Management
Implications for Hatchery Stocking Programs.
October 8 Ahmed Fakhoury (PGSA): Mycotoxigenic Aspergilli:
An ecological perspective.
October 22 Michael Madigan (Micro): Phototrophs and other
sulfur-cycling prokaryotes from a permanently frozen Antarctic
Lake.
November 5 David Brussell (PLB): The global urgency of ethnopharmacology
research.
November 12 Charlotte Roy (Wildlife): Ecological and evolutionary
aspects of intraspecific nest parasitism by female wood ducks.
Spring 2004
Feb 6 Tim Spier (Fisheries and Zool): Habitat Use of Shovelnose
and Pallid Sturgeon in the Middle Mississippi River.
Feb 20 Rob Neumann (Fisheries and Zool):. Impacts of fishing
tournaments on mortality of black bass.
March 5 John Connolly (University College Dublin, Ireland):
Designs and Models for experiments on multi-species plant communities
- applications in crop weed associations and biodiversity studies.
March 26 William Platt (LSU): Department of Biological Sciences,
Louisiana State University. Natural Disturbances, Invasions,
and Directional Species Replacements: A Southeastern Pine Savanna
Perspective.
April 9 Don Sparling (Wildlife and Zool): Ecotoxicology.
Fall 2003
Sept 10 - M. Flinn (Zool): Invertebrates and fish in Pool
25 of the Upper Mississippi River.
Sept 24 - M. Ibraham (Zool): Migration patterns of the African
armyworm moth.
Oct 8 - B. Young (PSGA): Weed ecology.
Oct 22 - M. Eichholz (Zool): Inference from correlational
data: proceed with caution; A case study of lesser Canada geese
staging in interior Alaska.
Nov 5 - L. Battaglia (PLB): Chinese tallow invasion of a
forest-marsh complex.
Nov 12 - D. Vitt (PLB): Cumulative effects on carbon balances.
Spring 2003
Jan 22 - John Reeve (Zool): Population Biology of Bark Beetles
and Their Predators.
Feb 5 - Phil Robertson (PLB): Field Ecology of the Northern
Rocky
Mountains: Educational and Research Opportunities for the Ecology
Consortium.
Feb 19 - Jim Fralish & Andrew Carver (PLB/FOR): Past,
present and future communities of the Shawnee National Forest.
Mar 5 - Eric Schauber (Zool): Chronic Wasting Disease, Models
and Management: Why Theory Matters.
Mar 12 - no seminar, Spring Break.
Mar 19 - Stephen Ebbs (PLB): Preferential Cyanide Assimilation
by Plants: A New Component of the
Nitrogen Cycle?
April 2 - Ed Heist (Zool): Molecular Ecology of Nurse Sharks
in the Dry Tortugas.
April 16 - Peter Minchin (LSU): Robust Multivariate Tools
for Ecologists.
April 30 - Scott Ishman (Geol): South Florida Coastal Marine
Ecosystem Restoration: A Historical Perspective.
Fall 2002.
Sept. 11 Sara Baer (For): Restoration Ecology.
Sept. 25 Mike Lydy (Zool/Fisheries): Ecotoxicology.
March 6. Karl Willard (For):Water Quality Benefits of Riparian
Buffer Zones in Southern Illinois.
March 20. David Gibson (PLB): Aliens in the Ecology Lab.
April 17. John Groninger (For): Silviculutral Strategies
to Re-establish Forest Cover on Abandoned Agriculutral Bottomlands.
May 1. Joe Ely (PLB): Test of the core-satallite species
hypothesis.
Fall 2001.
October 18th Dale Vitt (PLB): The sensitivity to the boreal
peatland carbon reserve to past and future climate change
October 24th. Thomas Wentworth (NCSU): Rare vascular flora
of the Longleaf Pine-Wiregrass ecosystem: Temporal responses
o fire frequenct and population size.
November 7th. Del Levia (Geog) Winter stemflow leachate dynamics
from deciduous canopy trees in relation to precipitation event
characteristics.
November 14th Charles Ruffner (For): Stand dynamics and fire
history in mixed oak forests of eastern North America.
Dec 5th Matt Whiles (Zool): The ecology and ecosystem significance
of grassland cicadas.
Center
for Ecology
Seminars