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The Future of Biodiversity: Reconciling Nature and Economics

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As part of Boston Climate Week , the Harvard University Biodiversity and Planetary Stewardship Initiative (HUBS), anchored at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, invites you to a panel discussion and networking reception around the Future...

Why biodiversity loss matters and what Harvard is doing about it

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A new video from Harvard University's Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability features Professor Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Director of the Harvard University Herbaria (HUH), making the case that the climate and biodiversity crises must be tackled...

Biodiversity & Systematics Faculty

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Through a variety of field, laboratory, and model-based evolutionary studies along with the outstanding collections, facilities and other resources of Harvard’s natural history institutions—the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Harvard University...

What Oaks Teach Us About Biodiversity

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The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard featured Professor Jeannine Cavender-Bares's discussion on Oak trees . With more than 430 species worldwide, they help us see how biodiversity is built over evolutionary time – and why that...

Stuart Davies Awarded NSF Grant to Study Dimensions of Earth's Biodiversity

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The NSF awarded a grant to study the dimensions of earth's biodiversity to PI Stuart Davies , Director of the Center for Tropical Forest Science of the Arnold Arboretum, Asia program. Press release, 10/5/2010

Herbaria awarded $4.7 million to mobilize digital collections of Asian plant biodiversity

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Charles Davis, OEB Professor and Curator of Vascular Plants at Harvard University Herbaria, has been awarded $4.7 million from the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Grant for his team’s collaborative project...

Researchers use leeches to map biodiversity

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Researchers in Professor Naomi Pierce's lab teamed with researchers at the Kunming Institute, China, in a new study that used DNA samples extracted from the blood meals of leeches to map which animals live where in the Ailaoshan Nature Reserve in Yunnan...

Scott Edwards and Colleagues Awarded NSF's Dimensions of Biodiversity Funding

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Congratulations to Scott Edwards and colleagues awarded the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Dimensions of Biodiversity program fund for their project, "US-BIOTA-Sao Paulo: Traits as predictors of adaptive diversification along the Brazilian Dry...

Peter Girguis Receives NSF Award

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Pete Girguis one of 10 funded researchers of NSF $23 million Dimensions of Biodiversity Program to study the planet's biodiversity. Full story .

OEB Special Seminar

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Laura Dee University of Minnesota "Conserving Ecosystems and Their Services in a Changing and Uncertain World" Abstract: Halting the decline of both biodiversity and the benefits ecosystems provide to society (i.e., ecosystem services) is a major...

Special Seminar: David Obura

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David Obura Director, CORDIO, East Africa Chair, IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Anthropocene - What Curves Need to be Bent? Co-Hosted with The Museum of Comparative...

CANCELLED: OEB Special Seminar

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Lúcia Garcez Lohmann Professor, Universidad São Paulo Untangling the History of Neotropical Biodiversity: The Big Picture Abstract: Few issues have been as intriguing and exciting to scientists as the origin and evolution of Neotropical Biodiversity. Yet...