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CBER External Seminar - Dr Adam Algar, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada
09 May 2022, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Title: 'Scaling Thermal Ecology: From Organisms to Orders, Seconds to Centuries, and Gaps to the Globe'
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students | UCL alumni
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Dr. Alex Pigot
Location
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Abstract: On a tiny island in the Caribbean, a small lizard seeks shelter from the beating sun underneath a palm frond. Meanwhile on a Scottish moor, a butterfly lazily stretches out its wings in the sunshine. Finally, in Canada’s boreal forest, a frog burrows into the leaf litter while the world freezes around it. No matter where they live, the lives of 'cold-blooded' species are a never-ending thermal balancing act, where tipping too far to the warm or cold can have deadly consequences but getting it right can have great rewards. In this talk we will explore the effects of climate change on this temperature-tightrope, combining ecological field work, biophysical modelling, and remote sensing technologies to understand how fine-scale interactions between individual organisms and their thermal environments scale to influence global macroecological patterns.
About the Speaker
Dr Adam Algar
Associate Professor at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Adam Algar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Prior to joining Lakehead in January 2021, he spent 10 years as Assistant, then Associate, Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. Before that, he completed a post-doc with Jonathan Losos in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, and his PhD at the University of Ottawa (Canada) under the supervision of Professors David Currie and Jeremy Kerr. Adam’s research integrates thermal and functional ecology with macroecology and macroevolution, with an emphasis on lizards. His lab at Lakehead is also developing work on the northern range margins of treefrogs in the boreal forest.
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