Zoology Departmental Seminar Series - Prof Miles Lamare

Prof Miles Lamare, University of Otago

Echinoderms in a changing ocean

Echinoderms (such as sea stars and sea urchins) are a marine phylum that play an important ecological role in many ocean habitats.  They are also a group that have been well studied in determining responses of marine species to important changes in the ocean such altered ocean productivity, acidification and warming.  In this talk, I discuss what we have learnt from the group in terms of developmental, life-history and population responses to environmental change.  This includes research on echinoderms in tropical reef CO2 vents in Papua New Guinea, temperate ecosystems and polar regions, as well as long-term inter-generation laboratory experiments.  I discuss broader questions around the ability of the group to adapt through physiological plasticity and inter-generational adaption.  Lastly, I briefly discuss research we are currently undertaken as part of my visit to Cambridge and the Natural History Museum (London).

For more info see:

https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/232096