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EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The ecosystem consequences of wildfire activity over space and time: a field station perspective

Kendra McLauchlan, Kansas State University, Professor, Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
12:00-1:00 PM
1010 Biological Sciences Building Map
Recent changes in ecosystem properties highlight major uncertainties about how disturbances will interact with ongoing climate change. Shifting fire regimes may lead to long-lasting directional changes or shifts in biogeochemical states, potentially impacting carbon and nitrogen balance over large spatial and temporal scales. However, data have been lacking to test these ideas over longer timescales – and to consider their implications for future projections – until only recently. A network of paleoecological records will document the role of climate in past fire-regime variability, and the potential for changing biogeochemical impacts will be evaluated. Combined with inferences from ecosystem and Earth system models, these results characterize how disturbances shape biogeochemical dynamics across a range of spatial and temporal scales. The important role of biological stations in catalyzing cutting-edge research, education, and outreach will also be explored.
Building: Biological Sciences Building
Event Type: Workshop / Seminar
Tags: AEM Featured, Biology, Biosciences, Bsbsigns, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, Research, Science
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Program in Biology, EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars