Lab alumnus Dr. Pierre Gaüzère just published our study on disequilibrium trait dynamics in Global Ecology and Biogeography. The study asks whether plant communities (via their functional traits) respond quickly when climate change. One of the classic idea is that rapid change leads to lagged or disequilibrium responses, as communities struggle to ‘catch up’. We…

After almost five years of work, we have a new paper out in New Phytologist on venation network architecture. You can read the article at the journal or directly download a PDF. The paper is part of the international and multi-institution BALI project, with fieldwork carried out in Sabah, Malaysia primarily in 2015. Sabine Both…

Luiza’s Ecuador work was just featured in a piece we wrote for Smithsonian Voices. Check it out!

We just had a new paper come out in Functional Ecology on predicting leaf temperatures and the functional traits that influence it. The paper is the outcome of fieldwork we did in 2016 in Colorado with Sabastian Escobar, Rozalia Kapas, and Sean Michaletz. It’s been a long road to get it published! You can read…