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( Updated Sunday February 7, 2010, 10:00 pm)
The Cincinnati Wildflower Preservation Society welcomes you to our site. Our hikes and lectures are free and open to the public, (but we depend on our memberships to cover our expenses.)
FEBRUARY 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010, 7:30 pm: Lecture Program, Avon Woods Nature Center (see directions below)
"Paleo-insect Herbivory during Global Warming Events" presented by Dr. Ellen Currano, Miami University
Find out about the conjunction of Paleontology and Botany in this exciting Lecture.
Insect herbivore damage is visible on well preserved fossil leaves and provides evidence of the long-term response of plants and insect herbivores to climate change. Analyses of 60-50 million year old fossil leaves from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, reveal that there is a strong positive correlation between insect herbivory and temperature. These results indicate that increased insect herbivory is likely to be a net long-term effect of anthropogenic warming.
Directions: Most of our meetings are held at Avon Woods Nature Center, a Cincinnati park located at 4235 Paddock Road, in the Paddock Hills/North Avondale neighborhood. From the Norwood Lateral (Route 562) drive 9/10 mile south on Paddock. Turn sharp right into the driveway next to the park sign (on the west side of Paddock) and follow the long dark driveway to the lodge at the end. During a typical meeting, we have a short (and, we believe, entertaining) 15-minute business meeting first, then the featured speaker, and then excellent refreshments. Visitors are welcome at all events and the refreshments are good!
If you are not yet a member, you are welcome to attend events to see if you have a good time. I think you will. Our hikes are casual. Trip leaders are familiar with most plants and will be glad to share their knowledge with you.
See our annual schedule tab for dates of more future events. Details of these events will be in our next Newsletter that will be posted in May 2010.
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