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Please join the Biology Department and the Great Lakes Center for the seminar "The Ecological Consequences of Precipitation Variability in Southwestern Rangelands," presented by Daniel Potts, department chair and professor of biology at Buffalo State College, on Monday, October 25, from 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center 422. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome.

Abstract
An emerging consensus acknowledges increasing precipitation variability as a hallmark of anthropogenic global change. How aridlands, often characterized by episodic resource abundance and scarcity, will respond to future precipitation variability is of broad ecological interest. Understanding the ecological consequences of an increasingly variable future climate is critical to maintaining the biodiversity of aridlands and to managing the goods and services they provide.