Nicholas Talks -- Fall 2007
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Dec. 6 - "Macroecology: Do Mechanisms Matter?"

A seminar by John Harte, professor of ecosystem sciences, University of California, Berkeley.  Harte is a recipient of a Pew Scholars Prize in Conservation and the Environment, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2001 Leo Szilard prize from the American Physical Society.  He is an elected Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society and has authored over 180 scientific publications. Of these, his book /Consider the Spherical Cow/ is a widely used textbook on environmental modeling.

In his talk he discusses what role is played by explicit mechanisms in ecology.

Presented by the Center on Global Change