The Biology department is pleased to have Dr Jocelyn Behm, Assistant Professor of the Biology Department at Temple University, present her research on "Biodiversity: the sustainable development solution" on Monday, September 9 at 3pm in BL234.

More information about the speaker here: https://www.iecolab.org/jocelyn-e-behm/

Abstract: For the past few decades, a prevailing paradigm has been that biodiversity is a casualty of human development.  Recently, a new solution has been proposed shifting that paradigm to where biodiversity is an essential ingredient for sustainable development.  The solution posits that biodiversity is needed to provide the essential ecosystem services that underpin sustainable communities. My work uses an ecological theory-driven approach to test this new paradigm. I will present my framework for exploring the relationships the new paradigm proposes and demonstrate the applicability of this framework in my study systems in the Caribbean islands and southeastern Pennsylvania.