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SBS Seminar - Peter Reich

“Global change and the terrestrial biosphere: linking plant traits, communities, and ecosystems”Host

Date:
Time:
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Hamilton Hall Room: 112
639 N 12th St
Lincoln NE 68588
Additional Info: HAH
Contact:
Agnes Wu, (402) 472-2729, ywu5@unl.edu
The traits of organisms result from evolutionary and physiological processes, and reflect variation in ecological strategies. They provide a lens through which those ecological strategies, and their consequences, can be compared among taxa that co-occur locally, as well as across climate zones and vegetation types worldwide. For example, a multiple-trait envelope demonstrates that all taxa have leaf traits that reside somewhere along a continuum from a ‘slow’ to a ‘fast’ return on investment design strategy. Thus, traits influence whole-plant function, and the assembly, dynamics, structure, and function of communities and ecosystems. Such links are relevant to both the historical ecological landscape of the past and to the dynamic and rapidly changing world of the 21st century, replete with its changing climate, chemistry and biota. Using data ranging from local studies to cross-continental observations to ecosystem-scale manipulations of global change factors such as CO2, temperature, rainfall and biodiversity, I provide an overview of the connections across some of these ecological strands.



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