The UNL Center for
Grassland Studies is again offering its Monday seminar series this fall.
This year's theme is Grassland Ecology. Below is a list of
speakers and their topics. All seminars, which are open to the public,
are 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the East Campus Union. If you have questions, please
call the Center office at 402/472-4101.
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Martin Massengale, UNL Center for Grassland
Studies
Introduction to and Instructions
for Seminar (for students taking for credit)
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Paul Johnsgard, UNL School
of Biological Sciences
"Ecology and Distribution of
Grassland Birds of the Great Plains"
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Svata Louda, UNL School
of Biological Sciences
"Biological Control in Rangelands:
A Double-edged Sword"
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John Watkins, UNL Plant
Pathology Department
"Ecology of Grassland Diseases"
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Ann Antlfinger, UNO Biology
Department
"Survival of Orchid Seedling
Transplants at Nine Mile and Allwine Prairies"
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Patrick Reece, UNL Agronomy
Department
"Seasonal Dynamics of Defoliation
Effects on Upland Sandhills Range Ecosystems"
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Richard Alward, UNL School
of Biological Sciences
"Shortgrass Prairie Responses
to Warm Nights"
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No seminar
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Anthony Joern, UNL School
of Biological Sciences
"Role of Insect Consumers in
Grassland Ecology"
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No seminar
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Walter Schacht, UNL Agronomy
Department
"Topography and Plant Communities
in the Nebraska Sandhills"
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Ken Cannon, UNL Department
of Geography graduate student
"Comparison of the Ecology of
Grasslands of the Past, Present, and Future"
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Gina Tichota, UNL Agronomy
Department graduate student
"Carex filafolia Propagation
for the Mixed Grass Prairie"
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Tiffany Moss Heng, UNL
Department of Entomology graduate student
"Ecology of Chinch Bugs (Blissus
occiduus) and Resistance in Buffalograss"
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Steve Archer**, Department
of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University
"Trees in Grasslands: Historical
Changes and Ecological Consequences"
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Dallas Virchow, UNL School
of Natural Resource Sciences
"Prairie Dogs and Grasslands:
What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Think We Know"
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