Cambridge Entomological Club March Meeting TODAY ON ZOOM

[Thuma, Jessie A]

CEC Meeting TODAY - MOVED TO ZOOM

Date: Tuesday, March 14th, 7:30 pm EST

Location: ON ZOOM ONLY at https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92664403460?pwd=MEJGMmxrT1JHNGVjOFo3bzluR3JqZz09

Title: "Scars and traces: Understanding animal behaviors and interactions in the fossil record"

Speaker: Anshuman Swain (Harvard Society Fellow)

Summary: The talk will start with a brief overview of how people look at animal behavior in the fossil record, followed by an exploration of the most dominant form of behavior recorded in the fossils: insect herbivory on plants. Usually, understanding and comparing the plant-insect (herbivory) associations among sites, both across space and time, is usually difficult given the species turnover across sites. In this talk, Anshuman presents a case for using plant-damage type associations, which are functional units of feeding damage and have mostly been used in paleontological literature, as a good functional proxy for exploring plant-insect interactions in both deep time and across biogeographical regions. This can pave the way for standard usage and comparisons in both paleo- and neo-ecology.

NOTICE: We will be holding today's meeting on zoom due to inclement weather.

See you there!

Jessie Thuma

CEC President

Jessie Thuma

PhD Candidate

Biology Department

Tufts University