With the lab moving between institutions this year, we have to transport several years’ of samples, data, and equipment from Arizona to California. After a long set of administrative actions to arrange for the purchase and transport of these items, our moving day finally came. I flew back to Arizona to meet our Arizona State…

(guest post by lead author Kenny Helsen) Invasive plant species are considered problematic in many parts of the world due to their impact on ecosystem composition and functioning. Invasion ecologists have tried to identify what characteristics make some species successful invaders, but others not. One theory that has emerged from this work states that invader…

Last week the new handbook of methods for climate change experiments came out. It’s a huge international effort led by Aud Halbritter and others to develop best-practice protocols for standardizing how scientists make measurements in terrestrial ecosystems. Sean Michaletz and I wrote the leaf temperature and leaf thermal trait sections. You can read the paper…

We have a new paper out in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change led by Tommaso Jucker. The paper focuses on understanding how land use change (e.g. selective logging) affects the microclimate of tropical forests. We focus on impacts on species distributions, species interactions, and (ecosystem functioning. It integrates viewpoints from several research groups and…