Ecological studies are the bridge that link biodiversity and global change issues. Please join us at the first Fall 2009 lecture in the Harvard University Center for the Environment and Bank of America series on: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change "Climate Change and How We Got the Fauna We Have Today" Mark McPeek David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College TODAY 5:00 pm Harvard University Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA Current projections of climate suggest grave problems for humankind going forward. However, past climate events may have played a significant role in shaping patterns of biodiversity that we have today. In this presentation, Mark McPeek will review evidence for the various roles that past climate events have played in the adaptation and diversification of North American damselflies, and suggest ways in which our concepts of ecology and evolution may need to be altered to account for these effects. McPeek is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist, using both empirical and theoretical approaches to understand the ecological processes that determine the distributions and abundances of organisms today, and that shaped the adaptation and diversification of these organisms in the past. In combined studies he integrates ideas, data and approaches from a number of disciplines, including population and community ecology, population genetics, molecular systematics, comparative biology, macroevolution and paleontology. The Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. This lecture is free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Contact: Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425 ============================================== You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list: http://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&… Our mailing address is: Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Our telephone: (617) 495-0368 Forward this email to a friend: http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&id… Update your profile: http://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/profile?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&…