Why forests are full of trees
Forest trees have a long-standing niche in ecologists’ quest to unravel how so many species can coexist on so little . . . (No Comments)
Friday Links – Hydrothermal vents as a nursery for early…
It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers (and . . . (No Comments)
Friday links – Household microbial diversity , songbird pest control…
It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers (and . . . (No Comments)
Diverse Introspectives: A conversation with Dan Simberloff
Several months ago, I watched an eagerly-anticipated head-to-head forum on invasion management featuring Dan Simberloff and Mark Davis. The two . . . (5 Comments)
2.3 million base pairs under the earth
An article published back in 2008 in Science by Chivian et al. details the discovery of the only known instance . . . (No Comments)
The New Do Re Mi in the Old LDG
The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient (LDG), i.e., the increase in species richness, from high to low latitudes, is the most enduring . . . (2 Comments)
Diverse Introspectives with Tony Ives
On October 29, 2013, graduate students Rob Heckman, Claire Fieseler, and I sat down with Dr. Tony Ives, Plaenert-Bascom Professor . . . (1 Comment)
How many rodents does it take to stabilize a community?
How can we tell when a community is saturated with species? Such a community is in some sense “full” and . . . (1 Comment)
All populations are NOT created equal
It’s no surprise that climate fluctuations influence the geographic distributions of many species. I myself traded in my heavy winter . . . (2 Comments)
Diverse Introspectives: A conservation with David Hooper
Our Diverse Introspectives series is a great excuse to shoot the breeze with biodiversity researchers. For this installment, we were . . . (1 Comment)