Professor Adrienne Nicotra, Phillipa Alvarez, Lisa Danzey, Sabina Aitken ‘Living on the Edge: understanding the thermal ecology of plants from threatened ecological communities’

Adrienne, from ANU, and her co-speakers will talk about the latest advances in examining how plants from extreme environments (desert and alpine) respond to and tolerate extreme heat and cold. This research seeks to identify ways to predict responses of plants from threatened ecological communities to a warmer and increasingly variable climate.

Abstract
Adrienne will use this session to update the Friends on the latest advances in our Australian Research Council (ARC)

Linkage project, of which the Friends are a partner organisation. The project is examining how plants from extreme environments (desert and alpine) respond to and tolerate extreme heat and cold and it seeks to identify ways to predict responses of plants from threatened ecological communities to a warmer and increasingly variable climate.

Biography 
Professor Adrienne Nicotra is a plant evolutionary ecologist with interest in the capacity of plants to respond to environment and environmental change – what we call phenotypic plasticity. Her work focusses on native species from a wide range of environments, though she is particularly fond of mountain flora.  Adrienne joined ANU as a postdoctoral fellow in 1998 and has been there ever since, now as a Professor in the Division of Ecology and Evolution in the Research School of Biology. In addition to her research work, Adrienne teaches, supervises honours and postgraduate students and is the director of the Australian Mountain Research Facility. 

Phillipa Alvarez is a PhD Candidate at the University of Technology Sydney

Lisa Danzey is a PhD Candidate at the University of Technology Sydney

Sabina Aitken is an Honour student at the Australian National University

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