Join us and speaker Meredith Zettlemoyer who will discuss how habitat loss, land use, and climate change have influenced the extinction of many Michigan prairie plant species. Human activities threaten thousands of species with extinction, but it remains difficult to predict extinction risk for many vulnerable species. Meredith has examined whether human-caused changes, including nitrogen fertilization, deer herbivory, invasion, and climate warming, have influenced local extinctions by planting locally extinct species back into local restored prairies.

About Your Speaker: Meredith Zettlemoyer

Meredith Zettlemoyer is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Georgia, where she studies the effects of climate change on alpine plant communities in the Rocky Mountains. She earned her PhD from Michigan State University, where she studied biodiversity loss in response to anthropogenic change, with a focus on potential causes of local prairie plant extinctions. Before her PhD, she studied biology and English at the University of Virginia and worked in environmental education with AmeriCorps. Meredith also enjoys reading, photography, and hiking.