The next meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Club will be held on Tuesday April 12 at 07:30 PM in in room 101 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street in Cambridge. Dr. Jonathan Pruitt, Assistant Professor at UC/Santa Barbara will expand our horizons outside of Insecta and into Arachnida, as he presents a talk entitled From Individuals, to Populations, to Communities, to Extinction: When Does Personality Matter?.
All are welcome to join us at 5:45 at the West Side Lounge for an informal pre-meeting dinner.
Consistent individual differences in behavior (aka ‘animal personality’) have received considerable attention in recent years because of their apparent ability to explain maladaptive behavior and to predict individual fitness in a variety of circumstances. In this talk Dr. Pruitt will explore how behavioral variation influences higher level ecological processes, including population demographics, species interactions and multilevel selection. He will use social spiders to address these topics.
The meeting is free and open to the public. Parking permits are available. See www.entclub.org for details.
