It is the end of an era… but both of the lab’s first two postdocs have now wrapped up their contracts and are on their way to their next jobs. I will miss the energy and community spirit they each brought to the lab, and look forward to return visits and future collaborations. In the…

Global plant trait relationships hold even at the cold extremes of plant life on Earth. Check out our new paper led by Haydn Thomas from Team Shrub with over 100 coauthors from the Tundra Trait Team, and led by Dr. Anne Bjorkman and Dr. Isla Myers-Smith. The main finding is that plant life in some…

Congratulations to Ivanna Caspeta and Miguel Duarte, who both presented posters yesterday at the Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities annual conference. Ivanna and Miguel are both undergraduate students who are working in the Arizona State University part of the lab. The conference draws people from across the country, but luckily the conference was hosted…

Lab member Courtenay Ray has achieved a level of public recognition out of reach for most of us – she has just appeared as a listener guest on the National Public Radio show, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! Please check out this week’s episode, where Courtenay shares some of her experiences as a plant ecologist…