Meeting Abstract BERN-1 Friday, Jan. 6 19:00 – 20:00 We have soiled our next: Now what? CREWS, David; University of Texas at Austin crews@mail.utexas.edu http://www.utexas.edu/research/crewslab Our environment is now permanently contaminated. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution to the more recent Chemical Revolution, the confluence of environmental stressors has reached a point of no return. For example, […]
year: 2017
Integrating physiology, behavior, and ecology to understand the mechanisms that regulate and limit animal populations
Meeting Abstract BART-1 Thursday, Jan. 5 19:00 – 20:00 Integrating physiology, behavior, and ecology to understand the mechanisms that regulate and limit animal populations SHERIFF, Michael; Penn State Univ. mjs72@psu.edu http://michaeljsheriff.weebly.com George A. Bartholomew championed the idea of a unified biology and a hierarchy of biological explanations. In 1964, he stated that ‘…each level [of biology] finds […]
Life in the Plankton, Stories from automated submersible microscopy and flow cytometry
Meeting Abstract AMS-1 Friday, Jan. 6 19:30 – 20:30 Life in the Plankton, Stories from automated submersible microscopy and flow cytometry SOSIK, H.M.; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution hsosik@whoi.edu This presentation will highlight vignettes that include parasitoid control of diatom blooms, dynamics of harmful algal blooms that threaten human health, sex and death in the plankton, and climate-related […]