🙌 Great news, congratulations Dolph!

Dolph Schluter UBCBiodiversity

In the lowland tropical rainforest, in Ecuador (Estación Lyarina) studying how communities of leaf-mining insects and their parasitoids change with elevation. With UBC Zoology PhD student Karina Torres and Ecuadorian biologist Paulo Zambrano.

Welcome new associate editor Sarah Otto to #GENETICS 👋 Her research focuses on modelling how inheritance & reproductive systems evolve by investigating the selective forces acting on genetic systems & mating strategies. Read more: bit.ly/3VRzCfd

Super excited to share another bit of my PhD - this project was my first dive into ecotox experiments, and allowed me to ask & answer questions about the effects of microplastics in a warming world. Thanks to everyone who helped with this one🌡️
🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Diversification in farming — things like planting hedgerows as well as a diversity of crops to encourage pollinators🐝 and biodiversity 🦋—

shows joint benefits for farmers’ livelihoods, human well-being AND protecting the planet🌏!

Read more! doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

📣 Calling all UBC Science students with research to share! We want to recognize YOU for your hard work and dedication to your research field.

🗓️Application period: March 25th (6 PM) - April 5th (11:59 PM)

💫Application Form: bit.ly/SUSxURO2024

The importance of engaging with anti-colonial practices and #Indigenous knowledges in #biology ! Click to read more about Making Connections, a cross-departmental team at #UBC developing a new biology course on natural history collections and #biodiversity . indigenousinitiatives.ctlt.ubc.ca/2024/03/19/und…

Last call to register for tomorrow's talk by Christopher Schell on 'Cities of Futures Past' where we explore how past decisions have impacted the wellbeing of people, animals, and environments and the need for environmental justice to transform our cities! RSVP link in quoted tweet.

New paper led by Nicole Bison in New Phytologist quantifies #HeatTolerance , #CarbonEconomics , & #EnergyBalance traits for 177 spp (157 families) in a common garden that controls for macroclimate. shorturl.at/szK68 UBCBiodiversity UBC Botany UBC Science UBC Zoology

Join over 500 of your colleagues at our upcoming meeting! We have space for a few dozen more poster presentations so we have opened up a new submission page (forms.gle/vGBWZMw7NArcTk…)

Submit an abstract by April 8th or until spots run out, whatever happens first 😎

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.MeganSzojka's MSc paper is up for open access! We found that dormancy can help seeds disperse between habitat patches through a harsh invaded matrix (in line with (c) in Fig) (1/5) dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4…

#NewPaper : Working with a huge team of 220 co-authors representing 102 projects in 21 countries, we analyzed data from 5400 #cameratraps to ask how #wildlife behaviours changed during the COVID-19 “anthropause” nature.com/articles/s4155… ..1/

Full sequencing of the genome of the Lake Magadi tilapia, the hottest fish on earth, confirms that it has an exceptionally high GC content, which may provide thermal stability.

Bernardi et al.: doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr…

New in Experimental Physiology from Drs Burggren, Fahlman and Milsom: Breathing patterns and associated cardiovascular changes in intermittently breathing animals: (Partially) correcting a semantic quagmire UNT College of Science UBC Zoology Oceanogràfic València 👇

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP…

The #COVID19 lockdown for humans was not an opportunity for wildlife to run free, in fact a new study led by UBC Forestry and published in NatureEcoEvo found herbivores tend to be more active around people, while carnivores remained hidden. UBC Zoology bc.ctvnews.ca/covid-was-a-go…

How do hummingbirds fly so fast?

UBC Zoology research associate Dr. Vikram Baliga and professor Dr. Doug Altshuler co-authored a study which investigated how the birds take flight.

via Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/hummin…

🙌🏽 Congratulations Katie Katie Marshall on winning a UBC Killam Research Fellowship 🤩

Don't miss this unique opportunity to explore the innovative technology and methodology behind restoration ecology!

'Trait-Based Approaches in Restoration Ecology' will take place Thursday April 11 at 2 PM ET🗓️

Learn more and register: bit.ly/3OgjjUF

Rural animals more sensitive to human activity during COVID-19 lockdowns, according to new global study

Read more: bit.ly/4916Qf4

@UBCForestry UBC Zoology

Rural animals more sensitive to human activity during COVID-19 lockdowns, according to new global study

Read more: bit.ly/4916Qf4

@UBCForestry UBC Zoology