Biodiversity

Biography

Marija Minic has a Master of Sciences in Biodiversity and Conservation from the University of Leeds in the U.K. Growing up in Toronto, Canada, she became familiar with the vegetation and birds of the Carolinian forests of southern Ontario, then travelled to Hong Kong for 4.5 years, where she studied the effects of boat traffic on the diving behaviour of the Chinese white dolphin (sub-population of the Indo-Pacifi c humpback dolphin, Sousa chinensis). Also in Asia, she worked in the rain forest of Negros Island in the Philippines, then moved to the Mojave Desert in 2008, where she has worked on desert fl ora and fauna, with an emphasis on Mojave desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii), to the present. She will speak on the effects of large-scale solar plants on Mojave desert wildlife.

Abstract

Abstract : Effects of large scale solar installations on southwestern wildlife