Ep. 394 - Insect Herbivory Past & Present

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In Defense of Plants

Botany, Natural Sciences, Ecology, Nature, Plants, Science

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🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Insect herbivory is a major driver of ecosystem processes across ecosystems, but how has it changed through time? Wouldn't it be amazing to travel back through time to see how much plant-insect interactions have changed? Essentially, that is what Dr. Lauren Azevedo-Schmidt is able to do using both modern and fossilized leaves. Join us as we explore how much insect herbivory rates have changed through time and learn some of the surprising results that have come from investigating this topic and how they can help us better understand the future of our living world. This episode was produced in part by Caelan, Tom, Don, Susan, Corbin, Keena, Robin, Peter, Whitney, Kenned, Margaret, Daniel, Karen, David, Earl, Jocelyn, Gary, Krysta, Elizabeth, Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts, Pattypollinators, Peter, Judson, Ella, Alex, Dan, Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the In Defensive Plants podcast, the official podcast of
0:04.1	Indefensiveplants.com.
0:05.4	What's up?
0:05.8	This is your host, Matt.
0:06.5	Welcome to the show.
0:07.6	How is everyone doing this week?
0:10.0	Have you ever thought about how much Insect or Bivory has changed over tens of years,
0:14.8	hundreds of years, or even millions of years?
0:17.2	Well, my guest today studies exactly that and her findings are going to blow your mind.
0:22.3	It is very unexpected the results that she's gotten and her work is really able to touch a lot of
0:28.7	different fields.
0:29.8	Joining us to talk about this is Dr. Lauren Azavito Schmidt and she bridges this wonderful
0:34.2	world of modern ecology and paleoecology using fossils and modern leaves
0:39.4	in ways that are so cool and interesting. But most importantly, she's super passionate about her work,
0:44.7	and this was such a fun conversation to have. So let's just jump right into it. Without further ado,
0:49.0	here's my conversation with Dr. Azavito Schmidt. I hope you enjoy.
1:11.8	All right, Dr. Lauren Azavito Schmidt. Welcome to the podcast. I am super excited to talk to you about your work today. But first, let's start with an introduction. Tell everyone a little bit about who you are
1:15.8	and what it is you do. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to talk about this.
1:21.4	So what do I do? I'm an ecologist is what I would like to kind of broadly call myself. But really, I'm an
1:29.6	interactions ecologist. And that's not really a term that we think about, because I kind of just made
1:35.2	it up a couple weeks ago. But it's, I'm really interested in thinking about how to communities,
1:43.6	specifically plants and insects, how they interact.
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