Adapative Peaks Seminar Series

The Department of Environmental and Forest Biology is pleased to host Dr. John Battles as part of the Adaptive Peaks Seminar Series. His talk is entitled “The causes and consequences of catastrophic tree mortality: Ecological insights from the epic California drought.”

John J. Battles, Professor of Forest Ecology at UC Berkeley, is a field scientist engaged in long-term research of temperate forest ecosystems. His goal is to understand how and why forests change. His research seeks to understand the dynamic response of forest communities to disturbances and perturbations such as air pollution, invasive species, forest management, extreme drought, and fire. His recent work has focused on understanding the interactions among disturbances in order to assess their potential to reshape forest community structure and function.