The Center for Biodiversity and the Department of Biology at East Carolina University would like to invite you to attend and participate in a symposium entitled "Biodiversity responses to climate change: perspectives from the southeastern US" that is scheduled to take place on March 14 and 15, 2014 at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. Our goals are to advance our collective understanding of how biodiversity is responding to climate change in the southeastern US and more broadly to provide a general framework that could guide researchers, managers and policy makers in other regions to enhance their understanding of how climate change may affect biodiversity in their regions. The symposium will feature 12 invited lectures, poster presentations, and open discussion. Our speakers and the tentative titles for their lectures are provided below. More information about the symposium can be found at http://www.ecu.edu/biology/ncbiodiversity/.
If you would like to present a research poster on biodiversity in the southeastern US or to attend the symposium, please register at http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/biology/ncbiodiversity/upload/symposium-registration.docx by Feb. 24. Limited lodging support for students presenting posters is available and students can make requests for this support on the registration form. Speakers and tentative titles Terry Root (Stanford University): Changing Climate: Changing Species Ryan Boyles (North Carolina State University): Future climates for the southeastern US Jim Clark (Duke University): Forest response to climate change in the Southeast: perspectives on the Piedmont and southern Appalachians Ray Semlitsch (University of Missouri): Abundance, diversity, and disturbance relationships: examples from pond-breeding amphibians Bob Christian (East Carolina University), Dennis Allen (University of South Carolina), David Kimmel (East Carolina University), Anthony Overton (East Carolina University), and Enrique Reyes (East Carolina University): Potential future of the Pamlico Sound ecosystem: a space for time analysis. Joel Kingsolver (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): Ecological and evolutionary responses of insects to climate changes: are means or extremes more important? Allen Hurlbert (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill): The consequences of climate change for avian biodiversity and migration Ellen Damschen (University of Wisconsin- Madison): How complex landscapes shape plant movement and persistence in a changing climate Brian Silliman (Duke University): Food webs, climate change and new theory in ecology. Erik Sotka (College of Charleston): Adaptation to warming estuaries of the northwestern Atlantic: an evolutionary perspective Rob Dunn (North Carolina State University): Dead trees and stinging ants. The future of the South in a warming and less predictable world Reed Noss (University of Central Florida) & Joshua Reece (Valdosta State University): Climate change and biodiversity in Florida: long-term and short-term concerns
