E&E Seminar: “Consequences of environmental variation for plant populations: earlier flowering under climate change and pollinator declines” by Amy Iler (Chicago Botanic Garden)
April 25, 2023
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location
SELE 4289
Calendar
Download iCal FilePlease join us on April 25, 2023 at 12:30 pm in SELE 4289 for an E&E Seminar featuring Dr. Amy Iler (Chicago Botanic Garden)
Host: Emily Minor
Abstract: Earlier flowering is one of the most widespread biological responses to climate change, and these shifts in the timing of flowering are especially pronounced at high elevations and high latitudes, places were climate change is occurring rapidly. This talk will therefore begin by examining what is driving these changes in flowering dates, using subalpine plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains as a case study. After thinking about drivers of earlier flowering, we will consider population-level consequences of earlier flowering. Another type of environmental variation that my group thinks about a lot is fluctuations in pollinator services, and this talk will conclude by examining the effects of altered pollination for plant population dynamics, something we know surprisingly little about.
Date posted
Sep 13, 2022
Date updated
Apr 5, 2023