Advocates for the Oak Ridge Reservation (AFORR)
Meeting and Public Presentation

Thursday, August 31, 2006, 7:00 p.m.

City Room, Roane State Community College
701 Briarcliff Avenue, Oak Ridge

Presentation: University of Tennessee (UT) faculty member Nate Sanders and colleagues will tell about some of UT's ongoing research activities in the Three Bend area of the Oak Ridge Reservation. UT ecologists are studying plant communities and the insects that feed on them, with the goal of exploring the interaction of genetics with ecosystem processes in natural communities.

A scientific paper by this group (Crutsinger G.M., Collins M.D., Fordyce J.A., Gompert Z., Nice C.C., & Sanders N.J., "Genotypic diversity predicts community structure and governs an ecosystem process") was recently published in the journal Science.

 Meeting: Update and discussion on AFORR's efforts on behalf of the Oak Ridge Reservation, particularly the Three Bend area.

AFORR is a nonprofit organization chartered in 1999 with the mission of encouraging the appropriate stewardship of the ORR and its resources. Its activities include encouraging public participation in decisions about future uses of the ORR and obtaining, analyzing, and disseminating information about the ORR, including its resources, the value of these resources, present and potential uses, and sustainable development concepts.

This event is open to the public.
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