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| Distinguished Ecologist Series
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Past Visiting Ecologists:
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Dr. Randy Schaetzl
Michigan State University
Sept. 25, 2008
Unraveling the relationships among soils, vegetation and climate on the sandy uplands of Michigan's Northern Lower Peninsula.
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Dr. Alison Brody
University of Vermont
October 16, 2008
Understanding nature through species interactions: from Colorado to Kenya.
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Aaron Ellison
Harvard University
October 23, 2008
Cougars, Corridors, and Missing Linkages: 20 years of science, conservation, and advocacy.
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Dr. Elizabeth Losos
Duke University
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Changing Tropical Ecosystems
October 3-5, 2007 |
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Dr. Jennifer Harden
USGS, Menlo Park California
A Paradigm for Soil Resilience (abstract)
October 10-12, 2007 |
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Dr. Paul Beier
University. Northern Arizona
Cougars, Corridors, and Missing Linkages: 20 years of science, conservation, and advocacy
October 17-19, 2007 |
September 14, 2006
Svata Louda
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Evaluation of Ecological Risk to Populations of Threatened Plant from an Invasive Biocontrol Insect.
Nontarget Effects - The Achilles' Heel of Biological Control?
September 28, 2006
Julio L Betancourt - US Geological Survey
A 22,000-yr record of monsoonal precipitation from northern Chile's Atacama Desert.
Influence of landscape structure and climate variability on a late Holocene plant migration.
Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal-scale climate variability in the American Southwest.
Role of multidecadal climate variability in a range extension of pinyon pine.

October12, 2006
Richard Mack
Washington State University
Predicting the Identity of Plant Invaders: Future Contributions from Horticulture
The fate of alien conifers in long-term
plantings in the USA
Genetic Bottlenecks in
Alien Plant Species

September 22, 2005
Dr. Sarah Hobbie
University of Minnesota
"The influence of tree species on biogeochemistry: interactions among litter chemistry, earthworms, and microbes."
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October 6, 2005
Dr. Carolyn Bledsoe
University of California - Davis
"Frontiers in Mycorrhizal Research: Functional Diversity of ectomycorrhizas in Oak Woodlands."
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October 27, 2005
Dr. Rick Lindroth
University of Wisconsin - Madison
"What can chemistry tell us about ecology? Insights into the evolutionary and ecological 'success' of a principal North American tree species."
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September
9, 2004
Dr. James Tiedje
Michigan State University
"Genomic Insights into Environmental Microbiology"
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September
23, 2004
Dr. Sam McNaughton
Syracuse
University
"Thirty-one years of continuous Research
on the Serengeti Grazing Ecosystem" |

September 30, 2004
Dr. Mike Ryan
USDA
Forest Service
Rocky Mountain Research Station
"Carbon Allocation in Forest Ecosystems"
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October 28 , 2004
Dr. Joy Zedler
University
of Wisconsin, Madison
"Wetland Degradation and Restoration: Challenges in the Great
Lakes Region" |
October 2, 2003
Rob Jackson
Duke University
"Global
consequences of vegetation change: Linking ecosystem changes above
and belowground." |
October
9, 2003
Peter B.
Reich
University of Minnesota
"Causes and Consequences of Plant Functional Diversity: From
Functional Convergence to Ecosystem Engineering." |

October 27, 2003
Bob Naiman
University of Washington
"The Ecology of Interfaces: New Perspectives from Pacific Coastal
Riparian Systems. " |

September 19, 2002
Dr. Gary King
University of Maine
"Trace gas microbiology and biogeochemistry - seeing the forest and the trees"
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October 10, 2002
Dr. Dan Binkley
Colorado State University
"Connecting resource supply with forest growth - Brazil to the Colorado Rockies" |

October 17, 2002
Dr. David Read
University of Sheffield
"Lifelines in the soil - the role of mycorrhizae in ecosystem processes."
Last updated:
September 1, 2009
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