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THE WORLD BELOW: HOW RESOURCES AND HABITAT INFLUENCE INSECT COMMUNITIES ACROSS SPACE AND THROUGH TIME
(2019-05-10)
Insects are one of the most abundant, diverse, and ecologically important clades of organisms. They represent up to 5-10 million species, accounting for approximately 46% of the animal biomass on Earth. Yet, despite the ...
FROM COOPERATION TO COMPETITION: HOW MICROBES AND INVERTEBRATES INTERACT IN A TROPICAL FOREST
(2018-05)
Microbes and invertebrates are “the little things that run the world” (Wilson 1987, Moreau 2017), but the intricacies of how these organisms impact our environment remains underexplored. Here I investigate how microbes and ...
From individuals to environment: the relative roles of morphology, flight, density, synchrony, habitat structure, and weather on extra-pair paternity
(2016-08)
Reproductive success is driven in large part by the mating system of a species, which ultimately determines patterns of gene transmission across generations. In species with socially monogamous mating systems, an important ...