"Doug
Tallamy, award-winning author and ecologist, will give a free public
lecture at the City of Rehoboth Beach on Monday, October 21st. The
lecture will begin at 10 a.m., as part of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee
on Trees (MACT) meeting. Tallamy, a professor in the Department of
Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, has
authored 95 research publications and has taught insect-related courses
for 39 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the
many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions
determine the diversity of animal communities. His book Bring Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens was published by Timber Press in 2007 and was awarded the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers’ Association. The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke, was published in 2014. Tallamy’s new book Nature’s Best Hope will
be published in 2020. Among his awards is the Garden Club of America
Margaret Douglas Medal for Conservation and the Tom Dodd, Jr. Award of
Excellence, the 2018 AHS B.Y. Morrison Communication Award and the 2019
Cynthia Westcott Scientific Writing Award.
Tallamy
will speak about how the specialized relationships between animals and
plants are the norm in nature rather than the exception. Those
specialized relationships provide our birds with insects and berries,
disperse our bloodroot seeds, pollinate our goldenrod, and more. Plants
that evolved in concert with local animals provide for their needs
better than plants that evolved elsewhere. Tallamy will explain why this
is so, why specialized food relationships determine the stability and
complexity of the local food webs that support animal diversity, why our
yards and gardens are essential parts of the ecosystems that sustain
us, and how we can use our landscapes to connect the isolated habitat
fragments around us. It is time to create landscapes that enhance local
ecosystems rather than degrade them."
The lecture is free and open to the public, there is not a need for a reservation. The lecture is scheduled for Monday, October 21, at 10 a.m., at the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Trees meeting. The lecture will be held in the 2nd floor commissioners room at City Hall, 229 Rehoboth Avenue, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Thank you and best wishes to enjoy the lecture.
Kind regards,
Krys Johnson
Communications Department
City of Rehoboth Beach
Above information provided by OLLI Geoengineering class member Denise.
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