Ecological studies are the bridge that link biodiversity and global change issues. Please
join us at the Harvard University Center for the Environment and Bank of America series
on
Biodiversity, Ecology, & Global Change
"Forests in a Changing Climate”
Paul Moorcroft, Professor of Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University
TODAY, Wednesday, February 16
5:00 pm
Biolabs Lecture Hall
Harvard University
16 Divinity Ave
Cambridge, MA
Ongoing changes in climate, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and disturbance regimes are
transforming the composition, structure, and functioning of the earth’s terrestrial
ecosystems. Thus far, insights into how forests and other terrestrial ecosystems will
change in response to changes in climate and rising atmospheric CO2 levels have relied
heavily on the predictions of terrestrial biosphere models that contain detailed,
mechanistic representations of the biological processes that underpin terrestrial
ecosystem dynamics. In this talk, Moorcroft discusses some recent insights these models
have provided on the impacts of changes in climate forcing on the fate of temperate forest
ecosystems. He then discusses some recent progress on bridging between these complex,
process-based models and simpler, analytically-tractable formulations in order to develop
a predictive, non-equilibrium theory of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics.
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. The
lecture will be followed by a reception.
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
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