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Study: One-Third of Plant and Animal Species Could be Gone in 50 Years

Wednesday

University of Arizona researchers studied recent extinctions from climate change to estimate the loss of plant and animal species by 2070. Their results suggest that as many as one in three species could face extinction unless warming is reduced.

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Save the Giants, Save the Planet

Feb. 4, 2020

Protecting large animals such as elephants and whales, and large plants like the sequoias, has a disproportionate positive impact on the health of the planet and resilience to climate change.

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Study Traces Evolution of Acoustic Communication

Jan. 17, 2020

A study tracing acoustic communication across the tree of life of land-living vertebrates reveals that the ability to vocalize goes back hundreds of millions of years, is associated with a nocturnal lifestyle and has remained stable.

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Events & Seminars

3 p.m. Feb. 17, 2020

"The role of demographic and evolutionary processes in buffering populations from climate change" by Seema Sheth (North Carolina State University)

Monday Seminar @ ENR2 S107

12:30 p.m. Feb. 18, 2020

"Microbial mediation of leafcutter bee-plant interactions" by Victoria Luizzi | "Plasticity-led evolution of cellular differentiation in the volvocine green algae" by Dinah Davison

Noon Seminar @ ENR2 S225

3 p.m. Feb. 24, 2020

"Adaptation, resistance, and host range: microbial evolution and implications for public health" by Valerie Morley (Penn State Univ)

Monday Seminar @ ENR2 S107

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