date
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presenter
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topic
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2 Sep 2015
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Dr. Matthew Toro (FIU GIS
Lab)
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Coffee in the Bolaven
Plateau Region, Laos
|
16 September
|
Dr. Stephen Haggerty (Earth
and Environment)
|
Plants, Diamonds, and
Agro-mining
|
23 September
|
Dr. Santiago Madrinan (Univ.
de los Andes and Jardin Botanico de Cartegena
"Guillermo Pineres, Colombia
|
Paramo is the World's
Fastest Evolving and Coolest Biodiversity
Hotspot
|
30 September
|
Dr. Javier Francisco-Ortega
(Biology and FTBG) and Ms. Nancy Korber
(Librarian/Archivist FTBG, retired)
|
The Last Plant Expedition of
David Fairchild
|
14 October
|
Nichole Tiernan and Jonathan
Flickenger (FIU Biological Sciences)
|
An Expedition to the
Dominican Republic: Studies in Plumeria (Apocynaceae)
and Myrtaceae
|
21 October
|
Brittany Harris (FIU
Agroecology Program, Earth and Environment)
|
Insecticides and Pollination
of Imperiled Plants of the Lower Florida Keys
|
28 October
|
Dr. Chris Baraloto
(International Center for Tropical Botany, and
FIU Biological Sciences)
|
Tropical Plant Latex: an
Understudied Model for Plant Biology and Source
for Plant Products
|
4 November
|
Andrea Salas (Earth and Environment)
|
Effects of host plant density on herbivores and
their parasitoids: a field experiment with a
native perennial legume
|
25 November
|
Kristie Wendelberger (PhD
defense, Biological Sciences)
|
Detecting long-term community shifts in response
to sea level rise: Can life stage and
competitive ability be used as indicators in
guiding conservation actions?
|
13 January 2016
|
Dr. Brad Bennett
|
Science in fiction:
The novel and northern Florida
|
27 January
|
Dr. Scott Zona
|
Litter-trappers, filter-feeders of the plant
kingdom
|
3 February
|
Jaeson Clayborn
|
Monarch conservation in a changing world:
Milkweed, Michoacán, and Miami
|
10 February
|
Eddie Marques
|
Ant-mediated effects on Sarracenia
|
24 February
|
Joanna Weremijewicz (Univ. Miami Biology)
|
Roles of common mycorrhizal networks in
plant nutrition and interactions
|
2 March
|
Tim Perez
|
Intraspecific variability, niche breadth,
and geographic distribution of the tropical
understory
|
9 March
|
Haydee Borrero
|
Evaluating the population status of
Trichocentrum undulatum throughout its
distribution, a story of South Florida and
neighboring Cuba
|
23 March
|
Ashley DuVal (Yale School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies)
|
Invisible intensification in the Amazon
Estuary: farmer-driven domestication of the acai
palm (Euterpe oleracea Mart.)
|
30 March
|
Adel Peña
|
Using herbaria to document pine rockland
Fabaceae species decline
|
6 April
|
Javier Francisco-Ortega
|
From Canada to the Tropics: The Brothers of
the Christian Schools and Island Plants
|
13 April
|
Jason Downing
|
Will orchids survive the Homogenocene?
|
20 April
|
David Berthold (Earth and Environment/
Biology)
|
Co-Culturing of Microorganisms and Algae for
High Biomasss and Lipid Production
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