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Claire’s cool paper about edge effects on soil microbes is out in Ecology! Congrats, Claire!
Was Clements wrong? New Historical Perspectives paper in The American Naturalist revisits Clements and Gleason debate using plant distributions from Pikes Peak.
Kaitlyn’s paper Bumble bee niche overlap along an elevation gradient: how traits can inform novel competitive pressures under climate change is now out in Oikos!
Lincoln and Asia received awards for their presentations in the Student Competition at Entomology 2024 in Phoenix!
Check out Anna's interview about her paper in the Myrmecological News Blog
Asia has been awarded a USDA NIFA predoctoral fellowship!
Asia's paper The impact of impervious surface and neighborhood wealth on arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens is out in Urban Ecosystems! Press from CU-Boulder Today!
Anna's paper Temperature-driven homogenization of an ant community over 60 years in a montane ecosystem is out in Ecology! Press from CU-Boulder Today, 9News, and CPR Colorado Matters!
Press release on fire ants study in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
Co-authored paper Pollinator intraspecific body size variation and sociality influence their interactions with plants led by Lupe Peralta in out in Functional Ecology
Working group paper led by Lupe Peralta on predicting plant–pollinator interactions is out in Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Mairead's Honors Thesis research is published in Freshwater Science!
Welcome Lincoln Taylor! Lincoln is a new PhD student in the lab co-advised by Sammy Ramsey.
Julian was invited to share our research on corridors and plant-pollinator interactions on the In Defense of Plants Podcast. Thank you to Matt Candeias for the invitation and for running such a great podcast!
Andrew's paper on floral visitors of Telesonix jamesii is out in Western North American Naturalist
Andrew's paper is out in Ecosphere where he asks if adding iNaturalist occurrences improves species distribution modeling of a rare endemic plant with few specimen records.
We're thrilled to have a new postdoc, Leana Zoller, join the lab. Welcome, Leana!
Congrats to Anna Paraskevopoulos on publishing her REU project with Lars Brudvig and Chris Catano in Restoration Ecology! Ant and plant diversity respond differently to seed-based prairie restoration.
New paper out in Ecological Entomology! Resasco, J., Burt, M.A., Orrock, J.L., Haddad, N.M., Shoemaker, D. & Levey, D.J. Transient effects of corridors on polygyne fire ants over a decade. We found that the corridor effect we observed in a previous study on polygyne fire ants (+) and native ants (-) diminishes over > decade. Here’s the key figure.
So fun dying silk scarves using cochineal scale insects for our Insect Biology lab with Dr. Deane Bowers
A warm welcome to the newest member of our lab, PhD student Casey Carroll. Casey recently received a MS from UF Entomology with Adam Dale and is interested in insect community ecology, ecosystem disturbance and conservation. Welcome Casey!
Anna, Andrew, Claire, Benjamin and Julian went to the Ecological Society of America's Annual Meeting in Montreal to present their research.
Victoria Alarcon Macias presented a fantastic poster on community gardens and insect biodiversity at the SMART program symposium. Congrats to Victoria and her outstanding mentor Asia Kaiser!
Postdoc opportunity in the lab! Details here: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Postdoctoral-Associate/39836
Congrats to Andrew on the defense of his Masters thesis on the natural history and distribution of a rare, high elevation endemic plant, Telesonix jamesii. Bravo Andrew!
Julian and Rob Fletcher's paper Accounting for connectivity alters the apparent roles of spatial and environmental processes on metacommunity assembly was selected for the 2021 Best Article Award in Landscape Ecology
Mairead defended her outstanding Honors Thesis "THE IMPACT OF NUISANCE BLOOMS OF THE FRESHWATER DIATOM DIDYMOSPHENIA GEMINATA ON INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN STREAMS". Congrats Mairead!
Anna has co-authored a cool new paper in Ecological Entomology with Diane and Karl Roeder on the effect of temperature on foraging behavior of harvester ants. Way to go Anna!
Our lab's field season ~1sec/day https://vimeo.com/625510901
Julian is presenting at ESA 2021. Watch the presentation here https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/575852393
Jess is off to UC San Diego to start her PhD in the Holoway Lab. Good luck and best wishes, Jess!
The field season is in full swing. Lots of exciting projects happening on Pikes Peak, Niwot/MRS, Boulder, and South Carolina.
Julian and co-authors Natacha Chacoff and Diego Vázquez have a new paper out in Ecology! We did this study over several years at CU's Mountain Research Station and found that Plant–pollinator interactions between generalists persist over time and space. Press: CU-Boulder, Boise Public Radio.
Lots of good news this month:
Anna received funding from Boulder OSMP, the Bev Sears fund, EBIO, and CU Museum of Natural History for her work on ant distributions
Andrew received funding from the Colorado Native Plant Society and EBIO for his work on the rare plant Telesonix jamesii
Claire received funding from EBIO for her work on soil fauna
Katilyn received funding from CanBee Cocktails for her work on bumblebees
Julian is honored to have been selected as an Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America. Press: CU A&S Magazine
New paper led by Karl Roeder is out in Ecological Entomology, Testing effects of invasive fire ants and disturbance on ant communities of the longleaf pine ecosystem
Julian and Rob Fletcher have a new paper out in Landscape Ecology on how accounting for connectivity can change the apparent roles of spatial and environmental processes on ant metacommunity assembly.
EBIO Diversity Statment: "We celebrate our differences and embrace our shared humanity. The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is firmly rooted in an understanding that diverse backgrounds and perspectives promote growth and resilience in our society and our science. By continually refining inclusive practices and removing biases in mentoring, outreach, recruitment, research, and teaching, we seek to empower the next generation of ecologists and evolutionary biologists to advance science through justice, equity, and inclusion."
New paper! Weather variation affects the dispersal of grasshoppers beyond their elevational ranges by Drew Prinster, Julian, and César Nufio, just published in Ecology and Evolution
We've had a couple of papers published stemming from a working group on temporal dynamics of mutualistic networks organized by Diego Vázquez and Tiffany Knight. One is, Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant–animal mutualistic interactions a Reviews and Synthesis paper led by Diego Vázquez and Paul CaraDonna, just published in Ecology Letters. The other is, Temporal scale‐dependence of plant–pollinator networks, a quantitative synthesis led by Benjamin Schwarz, published in Oikos which was selected as Editor's Choice. Such a blast to collaborate with this international group of fantastic ecologists!
The new academic year is underway. We had our first lab meeting, masked and with socal distaning, at the foot of the flatirons.
Check out some our talks (and collaborators') at the virual ESA2020 conference
Claire Winfrey and Kimberly Sheldon (Claire's work from her Masters): Understanding spatial variation in the vertically-transmitted gut microbiome of sympatric species of dung beetles
Julian Resasco, Ana Martín González, and Diego Vázquez: organized "Inspire" session on Dynamics of Plant-Animal Mutualistic Networks in Space and Time (intro talk on Vimeo)
Julian Resasco, Natacha Chacoff, and Diego Vázquez: Linking plant-pollinator interactions in time and space (also on Vimeo)
Topher Weiss-Lehman (University of Wyoming) and Julian Resasco: Accounting for observational uncertainty in plant-pollinator networks
Drew Prinster, Julian Resasco, and Cesar Nufio: Weather variation affects the dispersal of grasshoppers beyond their elevational ranges
Melissa Burt, Nick Haddad, and Julian Resasco: Do habitat corridors promote seed dispersal by ants?Anna, Andrew, Kaitlyn, and Julian have been in the field this summer collecting data on plant pollinator interactions and eating licorice!
EBIO Solidarity Statement #BlackLivesMatter
This summer Anabella Miller, undergraduate at New Mexico Highlands University, will be working with us, Katie Suding, and Irfan Alam on how landscape context affects apple tree ecology.
The lab keeps growing -- Kaitlyn Barthell has joined the lab as a B. A. / M. A. student. Welcome Kaitlyn!
Lots of exciting news! Anna Paraskevopoulos and Claire Winfrey will be joining the lab in the fall as PhD students (Claire co-advised by Noah Fierer). Anna was just awarded a 2020 NSF-GRFP and Claire will be coming in with a 2019 NSF-GRFP!
Our new research technitan, Anna Paraskevopoulos, has joined the lab. Welcome Anna!
New paper from the Corridor Project team on how connectivity beniefits plant biodiversity. Out now in Science ! 10.1126/science.aax8992. Press: UW-Madison, Washington Post, LA Times, Smithsonian.
Meet the lab!
Meta-analysis on a decade of testing corridor efficacy is out in Current Landscape Ecology Reports 10.1007/s40823-019-00041-9.