EEB Monday Seminar Presented by Dr. Rachel Gallery
When
Where
Environment and Natural Resources 2 Building, room S107 and Zoom (password: Seminar)
Event Description
Abstract: The twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss are among the world’s most urgent challenges, and they are interconnected. Alpine wetlands, mid-elevation forests, and desert grasslands—critical ecosystems for biodiversity and carbon storage—face escalating threats from climate warming, wildfires, and drought. What are the ecosystem consequences of these stressors? I will present findings from climate warming experiments in the Andean alpine wetlands (páramo), wildfires in Southwestern US forests, and drought simulations in the Sonoran Desert, focusing on the responses of plant and soil microbe communities.
Presenter Information
Rachel Gallery is a Professor of Microbial Ecology in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment and Director of the Thomas E. Lovejoy Center for Bridging Biodiversity, Conservation Science, and Policy in the Arizona Institute for Resilience at the University of Arizona.