Deborah Goldberg Ph.D: Research Designated Campus Colleague! Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill
Monday, August 25, 2025,
3:00-4:00 pm,
ASA Great Room and Zoom
Climate change is having major impacts on ecological systems; therefore, understanding and predicting those changes and their consequences is an important goal for ecologists. Deborah Goldberg will first review some of these impacts using examples from around the globe, then focus on two projects from her own research to illustrate a range of approaches to this problem and the complexity of finding clear answers. The first project uses long-term vegetation plots on Tumamoc Hill in Tucson that were first mapped in 1906, which makes them the oldest such plots in the world. 106-year record of vegetation change was analyzed. The second project takes an experimental approach in the mountains of Norway, where we transplanted entire montane plant communities to warmer (lower elevation) and/or drier (more inland) locations.
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