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If you were a shrew snuffling around a North American forest, you would be 27 times less likely to respond to climate change than if you were a moose grazing nearby. That is just one of the findings of a new University of Colorado Boulder assessment led by Assistant Professor...

Congratulations to Sam Flaxman for being awarded an Award of Excellence as an Outstanding Teacher for Technology in Teaching. In December 2013, students were asked to nominate an instructor who uses technology in outstanding ways to support student learning. Sam's students particularly appreciated his “use of iClicker questions and video...

In a paper appearing recently in the journal Ecosphere, published by the Ecological Society of America, the study's co-authors linked a 2.3 degree Fahrenheit temperature rise over four decades recorded at nine research sites to a decline in pinyon pine seed cone reproduction. Leading the study was CU doctoral student...

Erin Tripp 's new book titled: Lichens and Allied Fungi of Great Smoky National Park , has recently been published by the New York Botanical Garden Press . Congratulations Erin!

The Johnson lab researchers spent three years sampling 345 wetlands and recording malformations in amphibians— which included missing, misshapen or extra sets of hind legs. These deformaties caused by parasitic infections, were recorded in 24,215 amphibians. The results showed that ponds with half a dozen amphibian species had a 78...

The Medeiros lab has just been awarded a National Science Foundation grant. It is a 3 yr sole-Principal Investigator grant for $530,000. The grant will be used to study the origin of the vertebrate head skeleton, using lampreys and amphioxus as models for our ancient jawless and invertebrate chordate ancestors...

The Collinge lab has been awarded $449,999 in continued funding from the National Science Foundation. This award will support their long-term research on vernal pool plant community ecology and restoration. Congratulations to Sharon Collinge and her lab!

Rachel Wildrick , a BA/MA student in the Safran lab , has been awarded a prestigious Crisp Fellowship which will pay her tuition during the 2012-2013 academic year at CU, enabling her to complete her excellent MA work. Competition for this fellowship from the Phi Beta Kappa Honor's Society was...

Noise pollution alters ecological services: enhanced pollination and disrupted seed dispersal , was just published in Proceedings of Royal Society B . Clint Francis, PhD 2010 EBIO, was the lead author, and one of our current graduate students, Nathan Kleist, was a co-author. Other authors include Catherine Ortega and Alex...

EBIO student Amanda Williams' masters thesis research was just published in Animal Behaviour , and has already picked up some attention: it was selected as an editor's choice for an " In Focus Featured Article " and was also picked up by New Scientist .