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DESCRIPTION:"Restore the Wild: A Singular Uniting Agenda for Ecologists ami
 dst an Ecological Crisis?\," Kai Chan\, professor and Canada Research Chair
 \, University of British Columbia.\n\nThis event is part of the University'
 s Signature Lecture Series.\n\nAbstract: If ecologists lived in a world of 
 wounds in Aldo Leopold’s time\, where are we today? Fighting on a thousand 
 fronts to stem the loss of biodiversity from ecosystems everywhere\, but cl
 inging to ideas of wildness that find no purchase where most people live. T
 he idea of rewilding\, understood popularly as restoring the wild\, was unl
 eashed by ecologists with dreams of woolly mammoths and sabre-tooth cats. Y
 et when this idea unleashed myriad community efforts to restore ecological 
 interactions including with humans\, ecologists reasserted a narrow focus o
 n prospective wilderness. In this talk\, I’ll argue that we ecologists shou
 ld double-down on efforts to restore coevolved communities including megahe
 rbivores\, using the example of kelp forests\, sea otters\, and sea cows. B
 ut I’ll also argue that we should pursue rewilding in cities\, where it mig
 ht mean eliminating food subsidies for the many scavengers that are also ne
 st predators\, and diversifying the homogenous habitats like monoculture la
 wns where crows and other generalists thrive. I’ll wrap up by wondering if 
 what 21st century ecology needs is a single uniting agenda to restore ecolo
 gical interactions everywhere—to restore the wild.\n\nHonoring the late Eug
 ene P. Odum\, founder of the Odum School of Ecology\, the annual Eugene P. 
 Odum Lecture Series features speakers addressing significant ecological que
 stions in broad social and intellectual contexts. The lecture is free and o
 pen to the public.
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LOCATION:Warnell Auditorium\, Room 100
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SUMMARY:Odum Lecture in Ecology
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URL:https://calendar.uga.edu/event/odum_lecture_in_ecology_7624
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