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Monday Seminar: Oct. 2, Dr. Jessica Kuang of EEB on "Theory of Predation and Competition in Desert Annual Plants"4pm in Biosciences West (map), Room 301 Host: Peter Chesson |
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Talk Abstract The theory of the role of predation in species coexistence was until recently poorly developed. There is much conventional wisdom on this topic, but a recent review showed that much of the conventional wisdom was either unsupported or contradicted by the mathematical models that had then been studied. The work of Jessica Kuang has changed this landscape entirely. Her development of models of seed predation for competing annual plants has shown that predation interacts in quite unexpected ways with competition, sometimes promoting coexistence, but often undermining mechanisms of coexistence operative in the absence of predation. Many of the lessons of her work appear generalizable beyond annual plant systems. She will be reporting this work in her talk on Monday. This work represents her PhD at the University of California, Davis. She is now a postdoc in EEB, extending her PhD work. |
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