Ecology Yale School of Forestry

Oswald Schmitz, Professor of population and community ecology at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, speaks about Global Warming and Species Distribution and the impact of global warming on predators and their prey.

Predators have considerably more influence than plants over how an ecosystem functions.

Marian Chertow, Associate Professor of Industrial Environmental Management, discusses her new program, Industrial Ecology in Developing Countries.

Professor Carmela Cuomo of the University of New Haven delivers a lecture as part of the Yale Peabody Museum's Biodiversity and Global Change Day, sponsored by the Insitute of Museum and Library Services.

Stephen Kellert, Tweedy Ordway Professor of Social Ecology, explains the concept of biophilia, which is the inherent human affinity for the natural environment, and how it relates to built environment.