I went to the climate strike on Friday afternoon to show solidarity from the research community with the young people organizing this and other events. The Phoenix event was powerful – the people who organized it put on a professional event that ended at the state capitol and was covered by news helicopters and vans,…

In January 2020, the lab will be moving to the University of California at Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. We’d like to thank Arizona State University for being an inspirational and innovative place to work for the past two years. We’re also recruiting a new PhD student to start in…

(guest post from authors Kate Weiss and Courtenay Ray) – congratulations to them for a 100% student-authored paper! Our new paper in Ecography seeks to provide functional ecologists with guidance when working across taxa. Functional traits are aspects of phenotypes at the individual scale that respond to or interact with the environment, and have the…

We have a new data paper out in Ecology focusing on tropical plant ecophysiology. The paper presents leaf venation networks for several hundred southeast Asian tree species. The dataset includes both raw images (approximately 50-70 megapixels per image) as well as hand-tracings of large regions of each of these images. A few examples are shown…