EEB Thursday Seminar: Do we need biodiversity for ecosystem services?
Rachael Winfree - Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University
The importance of biodiversity to ecosystem functions such as biomass production and carbon storage is a key question in basic ecology, where it has been investigated largely through small-scale experiments and theory. It is also a key assumption in the conservation world that maintaining ecosystem services requires maintaining biodiversity. The role of biodiversity in ecosystem service provision in real-world landscapes is far from clear scientifically, however, in part because new conceptual approaches are required to even frame the question at these larger scales. In this talk I will discuss how my research program is tackling this problem.
View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/ortGYFbEWpo
Sponsored by the U-M Museum of Zoology Theodore H. Hubbell Memorial Lectureship
View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/ortGYFbEWpo
Sponsored by the U-M Museum of Zoology Theodore H. Hubbell Memorial Lectureship
Building: | Biological Sciences Building |
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Event Type: | Workshop / Seminar |
Tags: | Biology, Biosciences, Bsbsigns, Earth Day At 50, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, science |
Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Program in Biology, EEB Thursday Seminars, Research Museums Center |