Forests and species after wildfires & climate change

Episode 31 November 02, 2020 00:58:10
Forests and species after wildfires & climate change
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Forests and species after wildfires & climate change

Nov 02 2020 | 00:58:10

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Show Notes

Radio Show #31, November 1, 2020. Host Ronnie Lipschutz speaks with Dr. Joseph Stewart, a conservation biologist with special interests in biogeography, prediction, demography, ecophysiology, and climate change. He received his PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from UCSC in 2018 and is now a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy. He works with the US Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection on forest regeneration after wildfires and the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and species migration.  You can find more about his work at http://stewartecology.org/ and https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5fMCYtEAAAAJ&hl=en.

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