Webinar: Predicting future forest tree communities and winegrowing regions with Stan

This post is by Eric.

On Friday, Elizabeth Wolkovich from the University of British Columbia is stopping by to talk to us about her work. You can register here.

Abstract

Climate change is having large impacts on natural and agricultural systems around the globe. Mitigating the worst consequences requires models that mechanistically predict changes. Towards that goal, the Temporal Ecology Lab works on models to better predict the most reported biological impact – shifts in phenology, the timing of recurring life history events such as leafout, and flowering. Here I review three major areas of research where Bayesian inference has been critical to my lab’s insights and advances: declining plant sensitivity to warming temperatures over time and space,  mismatches between critical species interactions (for example, plants and pollinators), and shifting winegrowing regions with warming.

About the speaker

Elizabeth Wolkovich is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia where she runs the Temporal Ecology Lab. Her research focuses on understanding how climate change shapes plants and plant communities, with a focus on shifts in the timing of seasonal development. She is particularly interested in how climate change will affect different winegrape varieties, and how shifting varieties may help growers adapt to warming.

13 thoughts on “Webinar: Predicting future forest tree communities and winegrowing regions with Stan

    • The only search I find is under that symbol that has the date of the November seminar. And when I entered the name it returned nothing. Could you give a little more info, or give the link you are sent to (not that it matters, the usual seminar time appears to be 9:00am which is too early for my time zone).

      Thanks.

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