Dr. James Cahill an experimental plant ecologist from the University of Alberta joins the Two Nobodys to discuss the field of plant behavior. Understand how plants coexist, work, and communicate with one another to thrive and defend against predators in the natural environment. Dr. Cahill describes how natural plant behavior can have implications for food production and humans.
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Dr. James Cahill is a Professor of ecology at the University of Alberta, Canada. His work attempts to integrate how plant decision making alters species coexistence and patterns in biodiversity. This line of research has highlighted how behavioral ecological theory, developed primarily for mobile animals, is a very good starting point for understanding the social lives of plants. Over the last 20+ years, he has trained numerous graduate and undergraduate students in experimental plant ecology, and offered a different perspective than expressed by the common ecological paradigms. He is also actively engaged in science communication, with a focus on using a data-driven approach to enhance public understanding. He may be most well known for his work as the lead scientist on a widely viewed documentary about plant behavior (What plants talk about, PBS Nature and Smarty plants, CBC Nature of things). To date, those films have been viewed more than 2,000,000 times indicating a public fascination with the biology of plants.
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