Annual fall emeriti lecture with keynote speaker Burney LeBoeuf, Professor Emeritus, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department, Institute of Marine Sciences.
Individuals that generate the most progeny that reproduce shape future generations. So, monitoring the winners and losers in reproductive competition is important. This presentation highlights the lifetime reproductive success of over 7,000 female elephant seals monitored over a 50-year period at the Año Nuevo rookery. This long-term study shows that a few long-lived, multiparous females outproduce the majority of females and exert the greatest influence on the next generation. How these supermoms prevail is discussed.
Q&A and reception to follow.
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FREE and open to the public
No registration required.
Doors open at 6:30PM.
Buses and campus shuttles stop at Porter/Rachel Carson College.
Parking attendants will be on site to issue parking permits in the Arts parking lot (lot 126).