PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Competition, Hydraulic Damage, and the Universal Rules Regulating Plant Water Use
LENGTH ・ 01:06:19Tiny valves on the surfaces of leaves, called stomates, regulate carbon gain and water loss by plants, and are thus linchpins of the global carbon and water cycles. Amazingly, the same simple model regulates stomates worldwide. This model is…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: The Bonds We Make and the Bonds We Break; A Chemist’s View of How Metals Drive Biology
LENGTH ・ 00:59:34You may have learned in high school that covalent combinations of the CHNOPS elements comprise nearly all of biology. However, it is the family of less abundant elements, particularly iron, manganese, cobalt and copper, that mediate the most important…
Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits and Obstacles
LENGTH ・ 00:6001Claire Kremen (born 1961) is an American biologist, and professor of conservation biology at University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Biology in 1982, and from Duke University with a PhD in Zoology in 1987.[2] She studies the impacts of deforestation in Madagascar,…
