Our lab members have been spread far from each other, in apartments and dormitories and homes all across the world. Community has been hard to come by, especially after long hours on video calls. Today we were able to assemble the parts of the lab that are still in Berkeley. We had a small social…

Check out this great piece by Bria Light in the Telluride Daily Planet, entitled Groves of Gold!

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…