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ADV - Lunch with a Scientist: Old field succession
Lunch with a Scientist: Old field succession website
2660 Fawn Lake Dr NEEast Bethel, MN 55005
Join life-long learners IN PERSON!! for a monthly lunch and learn series at Cedar Creek. Bring your lunch and hunger for knowledge, we will provide the brain food! Grasslands provide key ecosystem services in supporting livestock production; however, the sustainability of these services is threatened by variability in environmental conditions between and across years. Shifts in environmental conditions are predicted broadly across the US, with sustained patterns of both longer and more severe drought. Consequently, there is a need to better understand the factors that promote stable production under extreme drought conditions to better provide land managers with tools for maintaining sustainable forage. Plant community characteristics, such as species diversity, have been recognized as potential buffers promoting production stability in the face of drought, however the mechanisms driving this pattern are poorly understood. Dr. Amy Churchill’s project specifically examines the importance of competition among plants in different successional grassland communities in predicting losses of productivity and shifts in nutritional quality. Findings will increase our understanding of potential mechanisms capable of improving sustainability of grasslands and provide land managers with increased explanation for why increased biodiversity supports healthy ecosystems.
THIS PROGRAM WILL BE IN PERSON AND ONLINE. To sign up for online go to: http://z.umn.edu/LWASonline
Meet at the:
Lindeman Research and Discovery Center
2660 Fawn Lake Drive NE
East Bethel 55005
Course Dates:
Meeting from 11:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. on:
- Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Instructor Information
Dr. Barale Potter is the Associate Director at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, where she also manages education and community engagement programs. Her background is in wildlife ecology, and she holds a B.S. in Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology as well as a masters and Ph.D in ecology and evolutionary biology. She studied wildlife and animal behavior all over the world (mostly monkeys in Ethiopia) before finding her true passion doing environmental education! Currently, she manages the daily operations of the Cedar Creek field station as well as leading K-12 field trip groups, public science projects, research tours and volunteer opportunities.
Sponsor Information
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve
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