Self-thinning in overcrowded pure stands under cultivated and natural conditions (Intraspecific competition among higher plants XI). By Kyoji Yoda, Tatuo Kira, Husato Ogawa, Kazuo Hozumi, published in the Journal of Biology, Osaka City University (1963 14:107-129). A longstanding goal in ecology has been to discover the mechanistic processes that underlie pervasive macroecological patterns [1, 2]. …
Lab and collaborator presentations at the 2021 AGU meetings
We have many folks from the lab and from our various collaborators who are presenting new work at the 2021 AGU meeting in New Orleans. All talks are available online as well as the slides. Tuesday B23D-03: Trait-Driver Theory: Toward a general theory to predict ecological and ecosystem responses to global change Brian Enquist et…
Units, units, units. Pay attention and understand SI base units
Traits are physical quantities and trait measurements are reported with associated units. Units are the fundamental properties of data and without units or careful consideration can cause confusion and delay. A synthesis of trait data in biology will rely on a common data standard . Cross-fertilization of trait-based approaches will rely on measurements that can…
New postdoc position; University of Arizona/ Lawrence Berkeley Lab Postdoctoral position (BioFI); Developing and advancing trait-based ecology, theory, and remote sensing.
The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Department at the University of Arizona in collaboration with researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is advertising for a postdoctoral position in developing and advancing trait-based ecology, theory (including Trait Driver Theory), and remote sensing to start as early as fall 2020. The position is part of a…
New postdoc position in advancing trait- based ecology – 2019
Opening for a 2-year postdoctoral position in Trait-based ecology (ExperTS) to start Fall 2019 – University of Arizona, USA and University of Bergen, Norway. Application deadline July 15th, 2019 ExperTS – Experiments, Traits, Synthesis: Using knowledge from global ecological experiments to validate, assess, and improve trait-based theory The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Department…
Macroecology lab action at ESA 2018
The Macroecology lab is presenting several lines of new research and findings at the annual convention of the Ecological Society of America Meeting in New Orleans next week. There is also one organized meeting as well as an organized symposium. Come an stop by and attend/chat with us! We will be updating this schedule as…
Join us – Announcing the first OpenTraits workshop – 4-5 August, 2018, New Orleans
We were excited to have our OpenTraits initiative featured in the journal Functional Ecology as part of their blog. You can read more about the feature here. Spanning animal and plant biology – the critical need for an Open Traits initiative across biology August 4-5, 2018, prior to the Ecological Society of America annual meetings,…
Plant Functional Traits Course in Svalbard just announced – apply by April 2018
Plant Functional Traits Course 4 Do you want to travel to over 70 degrees North Latitude? The 4th International Plant Functional Traits Course will be held at the University Centre in Svalbard, Norway, 16-27 July.. The International Plant Functional Traits Courses offer a hands-on experience with collecting and exploring plant functional traits data in a…
Guest post – Trait-climate relationships of New World woody and herbaceous plants
In this post we feature a post by Dr. Benjamin Blonder who wrote about a new lab and BIEN paper that just came out. The work is led by Irena Šimova who has been a visiting international lab postdoc and has spearheaded this work. Visit Ben Blonder’s new lab up at ASU and his blog…
Discovering Earth’s Botanical Biodiversity via the BIEN R package and GeoSpatial portal – We know remarkably little about what grows where and why
Life on Earth critically depends on plant life, which forms the base of all terrestrial food webs. Humanity itself is also critically dependent on plant life for food, fuel, medicine, shelter and numerous other uses. However, despite the critical importance of plants, we know remarkably little about them. Surprisingly, the basic properties of…
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