(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…

The summer education program is coming to a close at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. We’ve had the pleasure to work with several excellent students this summer. Gavin Belfry (University of Tennessee) has been leading an independent project on seedbank dynamics in alpine plant communities. Deidra Johnson, our regular-year student, (Arizona State University) has been…

(Guest post by postdoctoral researcher Dr. Luiza Aparecido) As classes at ASU are about to resume and I am back after nearly 2 months away from an international field campaign, I would like to take some time to acknowledge the brilliant students that assisted Ben and me in compiling our datasets and helping with field…