Monday, January 23. 3:30-4:30
Habitat-driven extinctions: Insights from spatially implicit models
Kate Meyer ‘09 is a Carleton Biology alum who morphed into a mathematician and is now an Assistant professor of Math at Carleton. Her talk will consider (1) what simple models can tell us about why biodiversity exists in the first place, (2) how habitat loss drives extinctions, and (3) what can be done about it.