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Ecosystems dominated by species of piñon and juniper, a spatially extensive vegetation type in the United States, are among the most predominant vegetation types administered by U.S. land management agencies. That means, among other things, that millions of acres of piñon-juniper woodlands have been subjected to numerous land-management techniques since...

Vertebrates built new head from old parts, study conducted by Daniel Medeiros ' lab finds. The findings, which appeared in the February 26th issue of the journal Nature suggest that the appearance of the vertebrate head skeleton "did not depend on evolution of a new skeletal tissue, as is commonly...

Sharif Durzi, a senior EBIO student, represented the Breed lab at the Front Range Student Ecology Symposium held at CSU. He earned first place in the undergraduate presentation competition for his talk on the effect of honeybee larva on fanning behavior in worker honeybees, with research he conducted this past...

Scott Ferrenberg , who recently finished his Ph.D. with Jeff Mitton, found out that the editors of Functional Ecology selected his recent paper with Jeff, "Smooth bark surfaces can defend trees against insect attack: resurrecting a ‘slippery’ hypothesis" for receipt of the 2014 Haldane Prize for the best paper by...

Kika Tarsi Tuff , an EBIO graduate student was one of twelve U.S. students selected to participate in the College Scholars program with the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA). Students selected for the program, traveled to San Diego to film, edit and produce a short documentary. Students were allotted...

Steve Schmidt has just been awarded the Arts and Sciences College Scholar Award . The award grants two semesters of sabbatical to support and recognize the college’s most accomplished scholars and enables tenured faculty to focus on scholarly pursuits full-time. Steve is the second professor in the EBIO department to...

Soil microbes that thrive in the deserts, rainforests, prairies and forests of the world can also be found living beneath New York City’s Central Park, according to a surprising new study led by Colorado State University and the University of Colorado Boulder. The research team analyzed 596 soil samples collected...

EBIO graduate student Christopher Weiss-Lehman from the Melbourne lab is the winner of the 2014 E.C. Pielou award for the best student talk in statistical ecology at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting. Christopher's talk was entitled "Estimating extinction risk from presence/absence data with observational uncertainty: Development and evaluation...

A genetic sleuthing effort led by the University of Colorado Boulder that resulted in the identification of Colorado’s “true” native greenback cutthroat trout two years ago has come full circle with the stocking of the official state fish into Colorado’s high country. Roughly 1,200 greenback cutthroat fingerlings reared in federal...

The following article from the Stock lab has just appeared in the Early Edition of PNAS : Aigler SR, Jandzik D, Hatta K, Uesugi K & Stock DW. 2014. Selection and constraint underlie irreversibility of tooth loss in cypriniform fishes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA; published ahead of print May...