Global plant trait relationships hold even at the cold extremes of plant life on Earth. Check out our new paper led by Haydn Thomas from Team Shrub with over 100 coauthors from the Tundra Trait Team, and led by Dr. Anne Bjorkman and Dr. Isla Myers-Smith. The main finding is that plant life in some…

Congratulations to Ivanna Caspeta and Miguel Duarte, who both presented posters yesterday at the Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities annual conference. Ivanna and Miguel are both undergraduate students who are working in the Arizona State University part of the lab. The conference draws people from across the country, but luckily the conference was hosted…

Lab member Courtenay Ray has achieved a level of public recognition out of reach for most of us – she has just appeared as a listener guest on the National Public Radio show, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! Please check out this week’s episode, where Courtenay shares some of her experiences as a plant ecologist…

With the lab moving between institutions this year, we have to transport several years’ of samples, data, and equipment from Arizona to California. After a long set of administrative actions to arrange for the purchase and transport of these items, our moving day finally came. I flew back to Arizona to meet our Arizona State…