How does genetics affect mortality and recruitment in quaking aspen forests? I’m excited to share several years of work with numerous students and collaborators that has just come out in Ecological Applications. You can read the paper at the journal or get a PDF. The study asks how cytotype (# of chromosome copies), genotype, and…

(guest post by Juliette Franzman, recent UC Berkeley graduate) – read her paper in Ecosphere! Macroecological models often rely on the assumption that the system under study is static or changing slowly enough to be considered static. However, most real systems, especially those under some kind of stress, change over time as they respond to…

(Post by lab graduate Carolyn Flower, M. sc.) We just published our open access study in Global Ecology and Biogeography on how human food use can potentially influence plant geographical ranges in the Sonoran Desert. The use of plants for food is one of the most important ways in which humans can increase distributions, via…