Date

Title

Presenter

January 10

Agricultural landscapes:  insects, birds, coffee, ecology and conservation

Stacy Philpott, University of Toledo

January 17

No seminar

January 24

Parasite succession, competition or randomness: explaining the dynamics of malaria in Espirito Santo, Vanuatu

Luis Fernando Chaves, EEB graduate student

January 31

No seminar

February 7

A proposal for studying evolutionary dynamics in dioecious tropical tree species

Professor Christopher Dick

February 14

Los Amigos Biological Station: Where the biodiversity is so hot, it is smokin'

Professor Robyn Burnham

February 21

Gene dispersal of a native shrub (Miconia affinis) in the shade coffee agroecosystem

Shalene Jha, EEB graduate student

February 28

Winter Recess

March 6

Plant recruitment limitation, biological control and forest organization: Evidence from the Diospyros oleifera system

Javier Ruiz, EEB graduate student

March 13

Coffee production systems in Mexico, Puerto Rico and India

Professor John H. Vandermeer

March 20

Food, farm, farmer and forest: Food policy and biodiversity in Grahnjee Bay Ahg-AH

Jahi Chappell, EEB graduate student

March 27

Biodiversity conservation in the Jamaican agricultural matrix

Jesse Lewis, SNRE graduate student

April 3

White halo fungus as endophyte and entomopathogen in shade coffee plantations

Aley Joseph, EEB graduate student

April 10

Management and parasites: Avian ectoparasites within a (little known, totally obscure) coffee agroecosystem of Chiapas, Mexico

Kate Goodall, SNRE graduate student