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SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM - Friday, February 26
| 12:00-1:20 p.m. |
Lunch (Food service 12:00-12:45 p.m.) |
| 1:30-2:15 p.m. |
Peggy Fiedler, Director, UC Natural Reserve System - Opening remarks
Suzanne Olyarnik, Manager, Bodega Marine Reserve - Introduction to
Bodega Marine Laboratory and Reserve |
| 2:15-2:40 p.m. |
Raiding behavior in an obligate slave-making ant
Joe Sapp,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2:40-3:05 p.m. |
Seed preferences of the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex rugosus in coastal sage scrub
Christopher Briggs, Department of Entomology
University of California, Riverside
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| 3:05-3:25 p.m. |
Break |
| 3:25-3:50 p.m. |
Exploring the causes of natural clearings around Jeffrey pine trees that reduce fire severity in the Eastern Sierra
Sarah Dalrymple, Population Biology Graduate Group University of California, Davis
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| 3:50-4:15 p.m. |
Effects of amphibian declines and extinctions on community interactions and stability in alpine lakes in the Sierra Nevada
Thomas C. Smith, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 4:15-4:30 p.m. |
Break |
| 4:30-6:00 p.m. |
Tour of the laboratory
Suzanne Olyarnik and Jackie Sones |
| 6:15-7:45 p.m. |
Dinner (Food service 6:15 - 7:00 p.m.) |
| 7:45-8:45 p.m. |
LECTURE: Habitat specialization, herbivores, and the diversity of
Amazonian trees
Paul Fine, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley |
| 8:45-9:45 p.m |
Social |
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