Greetings, Please join us for Ecolunch tomorrow (Wednesday), Aug. 22 at 12:30 PM in Lilly G-456. Dr. Jennifer Lau from Kellogg Biological Station (Michigan State University) will be presenting a talk entitled "Evolutionary consequences of global change: Effects on populations, communities, and ecosystems." An abstract of her talk is copied below. You can learn more about her research at her website: https://www.msu.edu/~jenlau/index.html ABSTRACT: Because of human activities, plant populations face a wide variety of novel environmental conditions. I use experimental manipulations in the field to investigate how plant populations respond both ecologically and evolutionarily to climate change, nitrogen deposition, and increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations. My work uses quantitative genetic analyses to predict how anthropogenic environmental changes will affect the evolution of plants and experimental evolution studies to test for rapid evolutionary responses to global change. My work suggests that species interactions play a key role in mediating plant evolutionary responses to global change. As a result, to understand how global changes will influence plant evolution, weneed to understand how global changes affect species interactions and plantevolution in natural communities -- Nancy C. Emery Assistant Professor Biological Sciences / Botany & Plant Pathology Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054 Office: 765.496.6931