A guest post by lead author and lab postdoc Brad Posch – The summer of 2023 in Phoenix, AZ, was (at the time) the hottest ever recorded. But it’s not just in the southwest United States where record-breaking temperatures are becoming more common; heatwaves are increasingly longer, hotter, and occurring more often around the world….
New paper in Ecology Letters: Predicting and Prioritising Community Assembly: Learning Outcomes via Experiments
We just put out a new paper focusing on a classic and challenging set of questions in community ecology. The first question is about predicting: how a community’s composition changes over time (an outcome), with or without an intervention (an action); the second question is about prioritizing: how to identify the particular action that should…