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Climate change, keystone predators, and the coastal marine biodiversity of British Columbia
About the event
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Harley
Professor, IOF and Zoology
Director, IOF pro tem
The oceans are changing. Waters are warming and becoming more acidic, the distribution and abundance of species are shifting, and ecosystem function and sustainable food production are at risk.
With an emphasis on the rocky coasts of British Columbia, Dr. Christopher Harley and his students explored the balance of forces that help to hold diverse ecological communities together. In this talk, he will begin by outlining how environmental stress and interactions among species create patterns of biodiversity in…
