(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…

Lab postdoctoral researcher Lars Iversen and his partner Mette Bendixen just had their research on sand featured in Nature and the New York Times – Lars’ guest post follows below. Mette and I had a commentary article out in Nature last week. Here we argue that there is an urgent need for a global agenda…

Lab postdoc Dr. Luiza Aparecido has been busy in Yasuní measuring photosynthesis rates on many of the common canopy-dominant species, but the work has been more challenging than expected. Everything has been going well with our side of experiments, which focus on understanding how vein architecture affects photosynthetic responses to leaf damage. Above our student…

Off to the Amazon – two weeks ago Dr. Luiza Aparecido and I headed to eastern Ecuador to start a new ecophysiology project. We are working with Dr. Renato Valencia, his student Emily Guevara, botanist Pablo Alvia, and Dr. Rafael Cárdenas (all at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador) to better understand tradeoffs underlying herbivory…