The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory
5th & 6th December 2020
Online at themind.fish
The Understory of the Understory is the fourth instalment in an ongoing series of festivals on consciousness and intelligence across species, part of the Serpentine’s General Ecology project. With The Understory of the Understory, we go to that place which is simultaneously ground, land, soil and Earth, that is to say, the place where diverse species come together, collaborate, communicate and constitute one another but also where complex systems of redistribution of toxicity, logics of extraction and geopolitics meet.
Angelica Patterson
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Look into the Physiological Responses of Temperate Trees in a Warming World
The forests of the northeastern US are globally one of the fastest growing terrestrial carbon sinks, due to historical declines in large-scale agriculture, timber harvesting and fire disturbance. However, climate-induced tree migration is altering forest community composition and carbon dynamics. The investigation of tree physiological responses to temperature across resident and migrant trees in a northeastern US forest provided evidence that suggests that resident species may have a physiological disadvantage compared to their migrant counterparts. Compounded with this result, an array of ecological disturbances further threatens the dominance of resident trees, resulting in species replacement that may reduce the carbon storage potential of northeastern US forests.
Angelica Patterson is the Master Science Educator at Black Rock Forest. She received her B.S. degree in Natural Resources from Cornell University and her M.A. and M.Phil degrees from Columbia University, where she is currently completing her doctoral degree in plant ecophysiology. Patterson is a strong advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the environmental sciences and has served on various committee and working groups. She has served as a speaker at several US universities, environmental organizations, and K-12 institutions, and has recently been profiled in The Guardian, The Forestry Source, and the National Environmental Education Foundation.
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