John Maron to present Division of Biology Seminar
John Maron, professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Montana, will present Coexistence and community assembly as part of the Division of Biology Seminar Series at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22, via Zoom.
Why don t species that produce the most propagules in a community outcompete those species that are less fecund? The ecological factors and functional traits that enable species varying in propagule size and fecundity to coexist remain unclear. We have been addressing this issue by examining how flowering plant species that differ in seed size, number and other traits coexist in perennial grasslands in western Montana. In particular, we have been experimentally evaluating two coexistence mechanisms competitive tolerance to the community dominant bunchgrass and vulnerability to post-dispersal seed predation by mice and how the strength of these differ among species depending on their seed size, fecundi
Lyric Bartholomay to present Division of Biology Seminar
Lyric Bartholomay, professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, will present Controlling Mosquito Borne-Diseases at the Source: Critically Evaluating the Old, and Innovating New, Mosquito Control Interventions as part of the Division of Biology Seminar Series at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15, via Zoom.
In the upper Midwest, mosquito-borne viruses including West Nile, LaCrosse , Jamestown Canyon and Eastern equine encephalitis continue to cause devastating disease in people and livestock. Adding to that threat, there is a precariously limited toolkit for controlling the associated vector species. The greater Chicagoland area has a long-standing network of mosquito abatement districts that enact vector control for