Of Butterflies and Moths

"I'm interested in community ecology, metapopulation, biologoy and evolutionary biology. Besides that, my pleasures are--as Vladimir Nabokov said once–-the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting."

You'll learn all about butterflies and moths of Central Europe if you attend his talk or webinar (listen live) from 12:10 to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 26 in 122 Briggs, University of California, Davis. The webcast will later be archived.

His topic: “Butterflies and Moths in Central Europe: Natural History, Climate Change and Voltinism."

Altermatt is the last speaker in a series of spring seminars launched March 31 by the UC Davis Department of Entomology.

Altermatt, who is with the Marcel Holyoak Group at UC Davis, received his doctorate in 2007 from the University of Basel, Switzerland.  From 2007-2009, he served as a scientific collaborator at Hintermann & Weber AG, (Ecological Consultancy, Planning and Research), working on the project “Biodiversity Monitoring Switzerland.”

Entomology graduate students James Harwood and Amy Morice of professor James Carey’s lab will be webcasting the seminar. The Wednesday webcastings draw widespread audiences, some from as far away as Brazil.

This is the last spring seminar, but the noon-hour seminars will continue in the fall. 

Stay tuned.