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Celebrating our undergraduate researchers: a mariachi evening
Miguel Duarte is a lab student who has worked with us for almost as long as we have been at Arizona State University. He is in the process of writing up his undergraduate thesis on herbivory impacts on leaf functioning, and has worked with us in the laboratory and also out in the desert. He…
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New lab paper in Science: Photosynthetic trait composition of freshwater plant communities
(a guest post by first author Dr. Lars Iversen) Plant growth is often a pivotal aspect of community change, biogeography, and ecosystem functions supported by plant communities. Thus, understanding limiting factors in plant growth is useful if we want to infer causality between the environment and species distributions or predict responses to future environmental change.…
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Lab trip to the Grand Canyon
Our lab took a trip to see the Grand Canyon before we move to California. Here are a few photos from the trip!
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New paper: remote sensing of ploidy level
Can you tell much about the genetics of a population just by looking at a landscape? Our new study suggests the answer is ‘yes’, based on measurements of the iconic tree of western North America, quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides). We just had a new paper out showing how, which you can read at the journal…