Most of our lab remains shut down due to health reasons and university policy, but a small part of our team is out in the mountains collecting data. We are under an exemption for critical time-sensitive work, which applies to some of our long-term demography datasets in the Rocky Mountains. We have one team out…

Lab postdoc Pierre and students Ivanna and Courtenay have just published a study on trait-based community assembly in Functional Ecology. Pierre wrote a blog post for the journal which I copy below. Are ecological communities saturated with species? This question is linked to whether ecosystems can reach equilibrium, and whether introduced species are likely to…

This summer we are hosting our first-ever remote research program for undergraduate students and K-12 teachers. We had been planning to bring several people to Ghana for tropical forest plant ecology fieldwork – and when that became impossible, to instead host them at our lab in Berkeley for the summer. Unfortunately the world has not…

Lab postdoc Luiza Aparecido just had a paper published in Ecology Letters showing that leaf water and carbon use in Sonoran Desert plants challenges current stomatal regulation theory – many species use far more water than expected in hot conditions, even when carbon gain is not occurring. This is her guest post. You can https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13516…