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Please join the Biology Department for the seminar "Restoration of a Keystone Rodent in a Shrub-Encroached Landscape," presented by Bradley Cosentino, assistant professor of biology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, on Tuesday, March 17, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Technology Building 160.

All faculty, staff, and students are welcome.

Seminar Abstract
Modification of landscapes by humans is a major driver of declining biodiversity. Agriculture and urbanization have led to landscapes with wildlife habitats that are reduced in size, spatially fragmented, and degraded in quality. In the Chihuahuan Desert of southern New Mexico, grassland habitat has been replaced with shrubs because of livestock overgrazing, drought, and lack of fire. In this seminar, I will discuss my research on a landscape-scale effort to restore desert grasslands and grassland-dependent wildlife. The talk will focus on factors constraining the demographic and genetic responses of banner-tailed kangaroo rats to grassland restoration.