Natural History and Modern Conservation

When: February 22, 2003
Where:  George Bush Presidential Conference Center, Texas A&M University

This article from Agrilife Today highlights the program.

Speakers

• Terry Erwin, Smithsonian Institution
  Title:  “Mapping patterns of biodiversity for beetles across the western Amazon Basin: A preliminary case for improving conservation strategies”   [Paper, TAMU Repository]
• Harry Greene, Cornell University
  Title:  “Darwin and Kant:  Appreciating biodiversity”
• Hans Paerl, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  Title:  “Assessing estuarine ecological change: A moving target influenced by human and climatic perturbations”
• Maureen Stanton, University of California-Davis
  Title:  “Evolutionary consequences of environmental heterogeneity for plant populations”
• Tom Sherry, Tulane University
  Title:  “The Garden of Eden meets Noah’s Ark: Wildlife ecology in human-cultivated ecosystems”
• Tom Swetnam, University of Arizona
  Title:  “Droughts, forest fires & people: ‘Natural histories’ from tree rings”