Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Seminars - Spring 2025
Seminar Leads: Abby Powell and Conor McGowan
Room 112 Newins-Ziegler Hall & Zoom at 3:30 pm
13 January
First day of class - orientation
27 January
Kevin McCraken, University of Miami
"The challenges of diving at high altitude: O2 transport and utilization in two iconic breath-hold divers in the Andes"
Seminar Recording
3 February
Therese Lamperty, UF Post-doc
"Cascading ecological impacts from two major threats to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: defaunation and climate change"
Seminar Recording
10 February
Betsie Rothermel, Archbold Field Station
“Slow Ecology: Insights from Long-term Tracking of Gopher Tortoises at a Sentinel Site in Southern Florida”
Seminar Recording
17 February
Kelly Robinson, Georgia Unit/UG
“Making Hard Decisions: Accounting for Uncertainty and Climate Change in Aquatic Conservation and Management”
Seminar Recording
24 February
Ke Zhang, UF
Exit Seminar: "Movement strategies and roost-foraging patterns of white ibis (Eudocimus albus) and tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor) during the non-breeding season in the Gulf of Mexico"
Seminar Recording
3 March
Meghan Beatty, UF
Exit Seminar: "Explaining and forecasting the interplay of demography and dispersal in a metapopulation"
Seminar Recording
10 March
Orlando Acevado-Charry, UF
Exit Seminar: "Leveraging ‘the power of people’ for biodiversity conservation: Insights from community science data on population dynamics, biogeography, and local ecological knowledge"
Seminar Recording
24 March
No Seminar
31 March
Nathan Hostetter, NCSU CRU
"Developing age-structured integrated models to link harvest, monitoring, and research data: Black bear abundance and demographics"
Seminar Recording
7 April
No Seminar
14 April
Costanza Manes, UF
Exit Seminar: "Integrative assessment of fibropapillomatosis dynamics in aggregations of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) from the northeastern Florida Gulf"
Seminar Recording
21 April
WEC MS Symposium
Brandon Welty - "Linking Burmese Python Ecology with Removal Efforts in the Everglades"
Peter Xiong - "The Role of Scent Lures in Improving Camera Trap Detection of the Invasive Tegu (Salvator merianae)"
Kathleen Carey - "The Role of Microbiomes on Longleaf Pine Restoration: Methods and Outcomes"
Lara Elmquist - "Assessing Behavioral Responses of Snail Kites to Boat Disturbance"
Lillian Maxwell - "Mule Deerpox Virus Insights into Transmission, Detection, and Management"
Seminar Recording
WEC Seminar Archive