Macroecology Lab

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 the week goes by so stay tuned! Saturday OpenTraits Meeting! Day 1 Courtyard New Orleans Downtown/Convention Center 300 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130-3604. Our lab is hosting an international meeting focused on creating an open traits network. This workshop is part of a coordinated, international series of meetings focused on facilitating open collaboration and standardization in the collection of trait data. While the primary aim of this workshop will focus on open science and metadata standards, we will also discuss the outcomes of previous workshops in this series as well as future directions for these efforts. For more information on the meeting, go to OpenTraits.org Sunday OpenTraits Meeting! Day 2 Monday  02:30 PM – 02:50 PM postdoc Sandra Duran will be presenting new work entitled  Leaf optical properties reveal variation of plant responses across a temperature gradient in the world’s hottest tropical rainforest 04:40 PM – 05:00 PM Ernest N. Morial Convention Center – 346-347 Lab collaborator Flurin Babst will be presenting on When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight Tuesday 04:30 PM – 06:30 PM Ernest N. Morial Convention Center- ESA Exhibit Hall  […]

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Many of us are up in Portland Oregon for the 2017 ESA meetings. Here is a listing of the various talks and posters we will be presenting. Do stop by and see us and say hi! Enquist Lab ESA Talks https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/authore.html ====== Monday, August 7, 2017 ============================================= 2:30 PM Portland Blrm 258, Oregon Convention Center OOS 5-4 – An energetic approach to variation in leaf and microbial functional traits across climate gradients Sean T. Michaletz1,2, Vanessa R. Buzzard3, Ye Deng4, Zhili He5, Daliang Ning6, Lina Shen7, Qichao Tu5, Michael D. Weiser8, Michael Kaspari8, Jizhong Zhou5, Robert B. Waide9 and Brian J. Enquist10, https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/Paper62588.html 2:50 PM D138, Oregon Convention Center COS 20-5  Why do leaf venation networks have loops? Testing hypotheses with an Andes-Amazon elevation gradient Benjamin W. Blonder, University of Arizona; Norma Salinas, Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco; Lisa Patrick Bentley, Sonoma State University; Alexander Shenkin, University of Oxford; Percy Chambi Porroa, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco; Yolvi Valdez Tejeira, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco; Tatiana Boza Espinoza, University of Zurich; Gregory R. Goldsmith, Paul Scherrer Institute; Lucas Enrico, University of Cordoba; Roberta Martin, Carmegie Institution; Gregory P. Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science; Sandra Díaz, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Brian J. Enquist, University of Arizona; Yadvinder Malhi, University of Oxford https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/Paper64877.html   ====== Tuesday ==========================================================   8:40 AM B114, Oregon Convention Center COS 45-3 – Spectroscopy of canopy foliar traits: Can airborne […]

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The Enquist lab has positions for two new postdoctoral positions to start fall 2016 (1) Postdoctoral Position –  Macroecology of land plant biodiversity: Niche evolution and ecological limits. The College of Science at the University of Arizona is seeking to fill a position in Plant Macroecology and trait-based niche evolution.  This position, funded by the National Science Foundation, will work closely with an interdisciplinary group of researchers associated with the University of Arizona (Enquist Lab), Kenyon College (Andrew Kerkhoff), and Wesleyan University (Dana Royer) together with international collaborators from the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN). We are looking for a candidate to investigate the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes that generate continental-scale variation in plant biodiversity. The post-doc’s main responsibility will be to lead integration of plant diversity, macroecology, plant trait, and climate measures associated with the biogeography of plant diversity.  The successful candidate will lead a novel research program that leverages the BIEN database, the largest botanical dataset in existence, with information on the distribution, ecology, and evolutionary history of more than 100,000 plant species in North and South America. The candidate will take advantage of computational advances in biodiversity informatics, phylogenetic analysis, and multivariate niche modeling to investigate how the evolutionary contingencies of adaptation, diversification, and dispersal
interact with possible ecological limits on the ‘niche space’ of different environments. The main goals of this position are to test whether the colonization of novel environments is limited by niche evolution, and whether less physiologically favorable environments actually impose hard ecological limits on the number of plant species they can support. The unprecedented scale of […]

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