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Michel at the WisAsp common garden

Michel Eisenring: Within-crown heterogeneity can affect herbivore performance in tree canopies

27 Nov 2020 — 0 Comments

Charlotte Poeydebat taking notes in the field (c) Soline MARTIN-BLANGY

Charlotte Poeydebat: Effects of tree diversity on forest resistance to insect herbivores

25 Nov 2020 — 0 Comments

Dr. Lauren Nadler at the Lizard Island Research Station in Australia (photo credit Shaun Killen).

Lauren Nadler: Nothing to gain with parasites on the brain

13 Nov 2020 — 0 Comments

Jamie enjoying the weather from his balcony in Sydney.

Jamie Waterman: silicon and simulated herbivory modify plant defences

13 Nov 2020 — 0 Comments

A picture of myself in the field (on Svalbard). Photo credited to Fumino Maruo

Anna Katharina Pilsbacher: troubling the neighbours in the tundra

13 Nov 2020 — 0 Comments

Jackson Creek, one of the 11 streams I study in south-central Ontario, Canada. © Bianca Nucaro-Viteri from 705 Creative

Community+Ecology

Sandra Klemet-N’Guessan: Am I a Black ecologist?

31 Oct 2020 — 3 Comments

Francisco E. Fontúrbel: Cryptic interactions between trees, mosses, and hummingbirds.

Francisco E. Fontúrbel: Cryptic interactions between trees, mosses, and hummingbirds.

21 Oct 2020 — 0 Comments

Henry Pollock: Can tropical and temperate birds take the heat of climate change?

Henry Pollock: Can tropical and temperate birds take the heat of climate change?

20 Oct 2020 — 0 Comments

This photo was taken on a field trip I took with Dr. Kristin Winchell in the Dominican Republic at the Jardín Botánico Nacional Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso.

Community+Ecology

Jhan Salazar: Journeys of an Afro-Colombian Ecologist

19 Oct 2020 — 0 Comments

Andrew Eagar: mycorrhizal types influence local spatial structure in temperate forest tree communities

15 Oct 2020 — 0 Comments