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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Please join us on <b>Today</b> for this week's <span class="x_highlight" id="x_0.759403499097841" name="x_searchHitInReadingPane">Enviro-Lunch</span> talk<b> </b>by Martha Kandziora,
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Why are there so many species of Erica ?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Erica is one of the largest genera of angiosperm and extremely species-rich in the Cape Florstic Region. Species are the outcome of evolution and adaptation. I will
first review the processes playing a role in speciation before presenting our research. To understand why there are so many species of Erica, I investigate together with others, the speciation and diversification processes of the genus. We found that increases
in speciation rate seem to be related with rare long-distance dispersal to ecological dissimilar areas. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br>
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</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Bio:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"> The key motivation for my research is to
understand what drives speciation and how biodiversity is maintained, with a focus on the roles of spatial, historical and ecological processes. Currently I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the McTavish lab (UC Merced) where I program a tool to automatically update
phylogenies. Before coming here, I received my doctoral degree at the University of Mainz - Germany, where I investigated the evolution and biogeography of the large genus Senecio.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">When: Today, 12pm – 1pm</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Where: SE2 Room 302 </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Organizers for Spring 2019: Jing Yan and Jennifer Alvarez</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"></span></p>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span></p>
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