Our new book just came out, building on a decade of K-12 education work at Sky School. You can buy the print version (all royalties donated), or also read the book freely online or download a PDF. The book is the outcome of five years of writing and is lavishly illustrated with examples of students…

Courtenay Ray is graduating this spring after starting in the lab in 2017. Her work has focused on plant community ecology and species interactions (especially those involving seeds) on Mt. Baldy in southwestern Colorado. Last week Courtenay was selected to give the distinguished lecture by a graduate student to the ESPM community. She gave a…

Why does tree phenology (spring leaf out and autumn leaf drop) vary across space and time? Most explanations focus on the role of climate on immediate physiology. However not all genotypes within a species might respond the same way to climate, and phenological effects may occur several years after a stressful weather event. In our…

Can we leverage functional traits to predict or control the dynamics of species-rich communities? We just had a new paper come out exploring these ideas. You can read it at Oikos or download a PDF. The paper first surveys the general problem of prediction and control in a community context. It then shows how functional…