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Episode 14: Ecosystem Resilience - Navigating Our Tenuous Connection to Nature

Originally Aired February 5, 2016

Sustainability of the services provided by Earth's ecosystems is dependent on mechanisms of resilience that include maintenance of biotic diversity and avoidance of climatically-controlled 'tipping points'. This lecture will explore how recent trends in land use and anthropogenic climate warming have exposed vulnerabilities in the mechanisms of ecosystem resilience, and revealed the potential for surprising shifts in the productivity and persistence of ecosystems.

IN THIS EPISODE

Russell Monson, Louise Foucar Marshall Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, College of Science, University of Arizona
Joaquin Ruiz, Vice President of Innovation and Strategy, Executive Dean, Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science, Dean, College of Science, Professor of Geosciences

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