SAGE Seminar Series
Anthropogenic Biomes: New Vision for a Used Biosphere
Event Details
Date
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Time
4 p.m.
Location
272 Enzyme Institute
Description
Erle Ellis, Uiversity of Maryland, Baltimore County.Anthropogenic biomes offer a new way forward for global ecological research and education, supporting models and investigations of the terrestrial biosphere that integrate human and ecological systems, going beyond the conventional view of these as a single dimension of human disturbance, impact or domination, and moving towards an operational view of humans as shapers of ecosystem structure and function.
Cost
Free
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