CSU biologist to discuss climate effects

Posted by egable on October 6th, 2008 filed in Wildlife, Climate change

Colorado State University biologist Alan Knapp will discuss the effects of climate change on plants and animals, as well as how it might affect them in the future, at 7 p.m. on Thursday in the Lory Student Center North Ballroom at CSU-Ft. Collins.

Knapp’s lecture is the second of seven public lectures that are running through the academic year addressing global warming from a variety of perspectives, including policy and policy makers, economics, effects on people, literature and creative writing and possible solutions.

All lectures in the series are free and open to the public.

Knapp is biology professor whose research focuses on plants and grassland ecosystems, with a goal of understanding ecological patterns and processes from the leaf to the ecosystem level. He has studied plant physiological ecology, ecosystem ecology, climate change, long-term ecological dynamics, invasive plant species, and fire and herbivory effects on communities and ecosystems. Much of his research has been associated with the Long-Term Ecological Research Programs at the Konza Prairie in Kansas and the shortgrass steppe in Colorado, with comparative international studies ongoing in South Africa.