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Long-term study shows effect of climate change on animal diversity
Two species of giraffe, several rhinos and five elephant relatives, along with multitudes of rodents, bush pigs, horses, antelope and apes, once inhabited what is now northern Pakistan. But when climate shifted dramatically there some eight million years ago, precipitating a major change in vegetation, most species became locally extinct rather than adapting to the new ecosystem, an extensive, long-term study of mammal fossils spanning a five-million-year period reveals.
Results of the study, by professor and paleoecologist Catherine Badgley and coworkers, were published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences August 20, 2008.
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Become a UROP partner
Would you like help getting a new project started or expediting a project in progress? Would you like to introduce and recruit a diverse group of students to your field? You can become a research partner for bright and enthusiastic undergraduate students through the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). See the one-page application.
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Welcome new lecturer
Welcome to new lecturer, Dr. Katie Wharton. She will coordinate and teach the honors section of Biology 171, conduct new Graduate Student Instructor training and, this fall, co-teach General Ecology. (more)
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 Wright wins best poster
EEB graduate student Jeremy Wright received the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists’ Storer Award in Ichthyology for his poster, “The phylogenetic distribution of siluriform venom glands.” (more)
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The EEB Fall Weekend: Meet, mingle, and explore!
The 24th annual EEB Fall Weekend will be held at the U-M Biological Station from Friday evening, Sept. 5, until noon, Sunday, Sept. 7. (more)
- Deadline is Monday
for photo and video contest
This is your last call to submit photos and videos related to your research by Monday, Sept. 8. We've got lots of great ones and would love to see even more. (more)
- Tuesday lunch seminars
12:10 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 9, Room 2009 Ruthven.
Professor John Vandermeer presents
"Robust criticality and its cause in a Mexican agroecosystem."
- TROPIBIO seminars
The fall 2008 schedule is coming soon.
- Thursday seminar series
4:10 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 11, Natural Science auditorium. Dr. Stephen Wright, assistant professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, presents "Polymorphism and divergence in Arabidopsis and Capsella: Does inbreeding matter?"
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