Please join us for a seminar talk by Cory Merow.

Making the most of imperfect data: Inferring mechanism to forecast population and community dynamics in a changing world

Abstract

Forecasting ecological responses to dynamic, often no-analogue, environments will be key to mitigating global change. The societal demand for management strategies challenges ecologists to forecast systems lacking critical data. I will provide a general overview of my efforts to making the best of imperfect data to develop mechanistic forecasts of population, community and ecosystem responses to climate change, disturbance, and nonnative species. I will emphasize how my own research intersects with the wide range of topics that we hope to engage the Yale community in addressing together, with the help of Yale’s new Center for Biodiversity and Global Change.