HMEI Faculty Seminar: “Towards Understanding Interdependence of the Climate and Biodiversity Crises”
Steve Pacala, the Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emeritus, will present “Towards Understanding Interdependence Of The Climate And Biodiversity Crises” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Pacala is the first speaker in the spring 2024 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.
Decades of experimental and observational work have demonstrated strong relationships between terrestrial plant biodiversity and ecosystem-level carbon uptake, carbon storage and water cycling. Professor Pacala will discuss work conducted by his lab, over the past twenty years, to develop models of competition for light and water among a very few representative plant functional types that control the exchange of matter, energy, and momentum between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere in the GFDL Earth system models. He will explain how physiological and structural diversity among terrestrial plant species maintains very high species diversity, which affects carbon and water cycling, and hence biosphere-climate feedback.
This seminar is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available in the Guyot Atrium at noon. All attendees can register here in advance to attend this event via Zoom livestream.
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HMEI Faculty Seminar: “Towards Understanding Interdependence of the Climate and Biodiversity Crises”
Steve Pacala, the Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emeritus, will present “Towards Understanding Interdependence Of The Climate And Biodiversity Crises” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Pacala is the first speaker in the spring 2024 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.
Decades of experimental and observational work have demonstrated strong relationships between terrestrial plant biodiversity and ecosystem-level carbon uptake, carbon storage and water cycling. Professor Pacala will discuss work conducted by his lab, over the past twenty years, to develop models of competition for light and water among a very few representative plant functional types that control the exchange of matter, energy, and momentum between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere in the GFDL Earth system models. He will explain how physiological and structural diversity among terrestrial plant species maintains very high species diversity, which affects carbon and water cycling, and hence biosphere-climate feedback.
This seminar is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available in the Guyot Atrium at noon. All attendees can register here in advance to attend this event via Zoom livestream.
