Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Seminar 2012

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Wednesday Seminar

Telkänpöntto (2402), Biocentre 3, Viikinkaari 1
Coffee at 14:45, seminars start at 15:15

15.2. Heikki Helanterä (University of Helsinki)

22.2. Robert Ewers (Imperial College London)

Predicting Amazonian deforestation and its biodiversity impacts

29.2. Shotaro Hirase (Tokohu University)

Phylogeography of the Japanese intertidal goby Chaenogobius annularis: long-term vicariance and secondary-contact between the two geographical groups

7.3. Spring symposium

14.3. Jukka Forsman (University of Oulu)

Learning the ecological niche

21.3. Henrik De Knegt (University of Helsinki)

Hyperthermia Risk Couples Solar Movement to Diel Vertical Migration in African Elephants

28.3. Lukás Choleva (Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics ASCR/UH)

Life with a sexual abstinence: evolutionary genetics of clonal vertebrates

11.4. Prof. Bas Ibelings (NIOO):

Phytoplankton: how did / does it get so diverse?

17.4. TUESDAY@9:00!!
Michael Hochberg (Université Montpellier II)

The evolution of cultural group binding and meltdowns

2.5. Mikael Puurtinen (University of Jyväskylä)

Genetics of Fitness in Small Populations

9.5. Steve Beissinger (University of California)

Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small Mammals and Birds in California: The Grinnell Resurvey Project

16.5. Enrico Di Minin (University of Helsinki)

Conservation businesses and conservation planning

23.5. John M. Drake (University of Georgia)

Early warning signals of extinction in a deteriorating environment

Host: Ilkka Hanski

Abstract: Recent studies have shown that tipping points in banking system failures, earth and atmospheric climate shifts, and physiological processes are all anticipated by characteristic statistical phenomena. Many (but not all) such “signatures of tipping points” are the result of critical slowing down that coincides with a bifurcation in the mathematical description of the system. Although not previously studied in this respect, standard models of population dynamics exhibit the relevant class of bifurcations and therefore should exhibit these phenomena prior to the crossing of a macroscopic tipping point. In this work, we show some of the conditions under which such early warning signals may be observed and present experimental work documenting the phenomena in a model system.

30.5. No seminar