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Subsidy intermediaries: the role of aquatic plants in storing and transferring resources from aquatic biogeochemical hotspots to terrestrial ecosystems
(2022-05-13)
The roles mobile animals and abiotic processes play as vectors for resource transfers between ecosystems (subsidies) are well-studied. Trophic interactions between mobile animals and their food sources often convey subsidies ...
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 ...
An integrative ecological and evolutionary genomic study of lake Daphnia across time
(2023-05-12)
An undisputable fact of the modern age is that human activities are now a major force shaping the biosphere. Some have called for a new geological epoch called the “Anthropocene” or the age of humans— the search is underway ...
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 ...