Autum is coming. It's time to start tracking the fate of seeds dispersed by rodents. This season - invasive red oak (Quercus rubra) acorns. I used seed tagging in several of my previous studies, e.g. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We did some local truffling on campus today and managed to find a couple of AM fungal sporocarps and an Entoloma #truffle.

(Pls RT) Come be our colleague: TT Job available at Assistant to Associate faculty level in Microbial Genetics at University of Miami! Apply by 11/1/24. tinyurl.com/UMmicrogen (And yes, the background is real ... it was our 2024 Faculty Retreat held 15ish mins from campus!)

Europe is facing a seed dispersal “crisis,” due to extinction threats and population changes among the animals that do the seed dispersing, according to a new study in Science. bit.ly/4dKyW0s

I'm awaiting funding decisions but anticipate recruiting a PhD student for fall 2025 If ur @ #TWS2024, have interests & skills that align w/our lab, & want 2 talk, pls get in touch or stop by the poster session where I'll present on coyote work done w/Roland Kays & #SnapshotUSA

New & #OpenAccess in Ecological Monographs: The trophic cascade involving Yellowstone wolves, elk, and aspen is primarily driven by predator-induced reductions in elk density rather than changes in elk behavior doi.org/10.1002/ecm.16… With #OpenData in Dryad #NSFFunded U.S. National Science Foundation

Scottish mountain hares do not respond behaviorally to increased camouflage mismatch doi.org/10.1111/oik.10… 📷 © Marketa Zimova Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution #behavioralplasticity #camouflage #climatechange #mountainhares #phenologicalmismatch

JUST PUBLISHED: What time of the day do ripe fruits drop to the ground? Who cares? The answers in this intriguing work led by Pedro Garrote: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Extremely excited to say that the final chapter of my MS thesis was just published open access in Ecology Ecological Society (doi.org/10.1002/ecy.44…)!

Asked if this was an NMDS ordination. Turns out it’s “small mammal poops”. Looks like we have an #ecologist in the making; although I wonder what his teachers think when he explains his drawings.

Check out the new paper in Mycologia by Alassane Sow et al. - a collaboration by our lab and Greg Bonito's lab at MSU describing two edible North American truffles. @BenLemmond Jud Van Wyk : tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I'm recruiting a PhD student and at least one masters student starting fall 2025. Please get in touch if you are interested! #Ecology

Giving this a go.

Looking for wild owl scat and pellets. We are investigating secondary spore dispersal in owls and have some cool feeding trial results but would like to demonstrate that this is occurring in the wild. Looking for forest-dwelling species. Please reach out if want to collaborate.

Finally found a task in the lab for him. Will work for candy and phone time. #labwork

Stable isotope analysis reveals individual variations in feeding habits among wild Japanese macaques - Funakawa - Ecological Research #stableisotopes esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Outer space is harsh. Extreme temperatures and radiation can break down most materials, but a study on the International Space Station finds a biological molecule that holds its own: melanin derived from fungus. In PNAS: ow.ly/QvbA50VLAZb