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Sky School in the city
At Sky School we are committed to inquiry-based and place-based science education. Most of our K-12 programs occur at our campus on Mt. Lemmon, but not all K-12 schools have the resources or time available to bring their students to us. Thanks to the hard work of our education director Rebecca Lipson, we have been…
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New publication on mapping plant traits at global scale
What is the functional composition of a landscape in Borneo, or of one in central England? Knowing the answer is critical for mapping ecosystem functioning (for example, carbon fluxes), for conservation work (for example, understanding where landscapes have more functions and may be more resilient), Traditionally, answering this question could be done based on one…
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New publication: predicting venation traits on a tropical forest elevation gradient
We just had a new study come out on predicting leaf traits from reflectance spectroscopy. The study was led by Chris Doughty and Paul Efren Santos Andrade as part of the broader CHAMBASA elevation gradient project in Peru. In many ecological applications, measuring leaf traits is very useful (e.g. photosynthetic rates, which help predict plant…
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New publication: Hypervolume concepts in niche- and trait-based ecology
Last week we had a review paper come out surveying uses of hypervolume concepts across ecology and evolutionary biology. You can read it at Ecography, or get a PDF copy. The manuscript explores how the n-dimensional hypervolume concept has been used since it was first proposed by G.E. Hutchinson (his fabulous illustration of squirrel niches…