The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP) warmlt invites you to the DEEP Advanced Seminar Series (DASS) on 21 November, which is open to all and is first come first seats. Always at 14-15:00 in N399. A fika follows in the lunchroom.

This seminar will be presented by Prof. Nicole Fenton from Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, who is currently a guest professor at DEEP. 

Title

Drivers of landscape patterns of bryophytes in Eastern Canada

Abstract

Management of forests for wood products results in changes in stand characteristics, but also forest landscape patterns. Both of these can have significant impacts on the diversity of species that live in forest landscapes. The boreal forests of Canada are vast, covering over 3 million km2 from Newfoundland in the east to the Yukon in the west. Despite this broad extent, much of which is still primary forests, we have observed changes in stand composition and structure, and landscape configuration across much of the southern boreal forest that is intensively targeted by forest harvesting. In this presentation, highlighting recent student results, we will discuss how bryophyte traits interact with changes in landscape configuration to influence bryophyte communities. This specious and sensitive taxonomic group are dominant in terms of biodiversity and also abundance in northern coniferous forests, giving additional importance to their responses to changing environmental factors across numerous scales. Although many similarities exist between boreal Fennoscandinavia and boreal Canada, many differences also exist, and the impacts of these differences will be explored.

Read more about Prof. Nicole Fenton.