March 19, 2008
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Louie Yang |
Soil ecologist and President's Postdoctoral Fellow Louie Yang of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, will speak on "The Ecology of Resource Pulses and Other Extreme Events" from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8 in the Life Sciences Addition conference room, Room 1022.
This is part of the soil ecologist recruitment process affiliated with the UC Davis departments of entomology and nematology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Yang received his bachelor's degree in biology in 1999 from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and his doctorate in population biology from UC Davis in 2006. He studied with major professor and insect ecologist Richard Karban.
Yang focuses his research program on how resource pulses, disturbance events and the timing of species interactions affect the above-ground and below-ground components of ecological communities.
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| Cicada. Click to enlarge. (Photo by Susan Ellis, bugwood.org) |
In the Karban lab, Yang studied "the ecological consequences of resource pulses in natural communities." His dissertation research focused on the effects of 17-year periodical cicadas (Magicicada spp.) in forest communities."
Yang aims much of his research at understanding the resilience of ecological systems; how do communities respond to strong perturbations and changing conditions? To investigate this question, he works to integrate behavioral, community and ecosystem ecology in soil-plant-insect systems.
Yang's talk is open to the public.
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--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
