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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Please
join us for a <i>Tuesday</i> NCEAS Ecolunch:<o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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Forest Isbell, University of Minnesota</b><o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Causes
and consequences of changes in grassland plant
diversity</b><o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">**Tuesday**
February 14th @ 12:15<o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">From Dr.
Isbell:<o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Humans
are causing many changes on a global scale, such as
changes in nutrient availability,
species origin (native vs. exotic), land use, and
climate. There is concern
that these anthropogenic influences could tip ecosystems
over critical
thresholds, leading to rapid, and potentially
irreversible, changes in
ecosystems. Furthermore, biodiversity is declining
worldwide, and there is
considerable evidence that ecosystem functioning (e.g.,
productivity, nutrient
cycling) directly depends on biodiversity. Thus, there
is concern that
biodiversity declines will decrease the services that
ecosystems provide for
people. This talk will explore: (1) whether nutrient
enrichment can cause a
critical transition from a diverse to a depauperate
grassland plant community
by promoting an exotic species invasion, and (2) the
extent to which grassland
plant species are functionally redundant, such that
their extinction will not
influence ecosystem functioning.<o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Website: </span><span
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href="http://web.me.com/forest.isbell"><span
style="font-family:Arial;
color:#0000F6">web.me.com/forest.isbell</span></a></span><span
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">GENERAL
INFORMATION: Ecolunch is usually Thursday, at 12:15 pm
(brown bag lunch)
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis,
735 State
St., Suite
300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Phone: (805) 892-2500 <o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">A
schedule of upcoming Ecolunch seminars is available on
the web at:
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><a
href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecolunch"><span
style="font-family:Arial;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecolunch</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">DIRECTIONS
FROM UCSB BY BUS: You can get to NCEAS by taking the
11:40 a.m. bus (#24x) from
campus. From the transit center, walk one block east to
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">State
Street and two blocks south to the Balboa Building at
735 State Street. To
return to campus, you can take the 1:30 p.m. bus (#24x)
from <o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">the
transit station and be back on campus by 1:49 p.m. Or
you can take the 2:20
p.m. bus and arrive on campus at 2:39. <o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">BY CAR:
take Highway 101 South. Once in Santa Barbara, exit on
Carrillo Street. Turn
left onto Carrillo. Drive 5 blocks and turn right on
State <o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Street.
NCEAS is located on the right side at 735 State St.,
Suite 300. To park: Drive
past NCEAS on State Street and make your first right on
Ortega <o:p></o:p></span></small></small></font></small></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Street.
Drive 1 block and turn right on Chapala Street. Park in
the underground Mall
parking lot on your right. (First 75 minutes free). Once
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small><small>--
Josephine Rodriguez, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
University of California Santa Barbara
735 State St., Suite 300
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Office: 805-892-2514 Cell: 217-649-3004
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~rodriguez">http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~rodriguez</a>
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