Some late news:

• Jacob successfully defended his PhD dissertation June 20th!
• Davidé (honorary lab member) successfully defended his PhD dissertation June 24th!
• Michelle, Jacob, and Davidé all walked through graduation Aug. 1, which also happened to be Dave’s official retirement date.
• The lab is now shut down for building renovations. We are geographically scattered about but this page will maintain updates.

Michelle [very] successfully defended her M.S. thesis – way to go, Michelle!

Dave and colleagues (Leo Ohyama, Juan Bogota-Gregory) have a new paper out in Frontiers of Biogeography, entitled “Peak beta diversity occurs at regional spatial grains.” This work indicates ecological communities are bigger than you think… You can see it here.

Hannah successfully defended her Ph.D dissertation June 25! She got final edits submitted and is now Dr. Bevan. She starts as faculty at Eastern Florida State College in August.

Congratulations Hannah!

Jacob and colleagues (Alessandra Pandolfi from UCF Biology, Theressa Jones from Seminole County Mosquito Control, and Dave) have a paper accepted in Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association entitled “Ground-based pyrethroid adulticides reduce mosquitoes but not nontarget insects in Central Florida.” This is the first chapter from Jacob’s dissertation.

UPDATE: The paper is now available open access here.

Jacob submitted a manuscript entitled “Ground-based pyrethroid adulticides reduce mosquitoes but not nontarget insects in Central Florida” to J. American Mosquito Control Assoc. Co-authors include Alessandra Pandolfi (UCF), Theressa Jones (Seminole Co. Mosquito Control), and Dave.

Dave and colleagues have a paper accepted: Ohyama, L, Bogota-Gregory, JD, DG Jenkins. Peak beta diversity occurs at regional spatial grains. Frontiers of Biogeography.

Congratulations to Hannah for winning the Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching for both the College of Sciences and the University! The award recognizes her “teaching ability and exceptional academic contribution.”

Two papers were recently accepted:

Juan David Bogota-Gregory, David G. Jenkins, Astrid Acosta-Santos, Edwin Agudelo Córdoba. Fish diversity of Colombian Andes-Amazon streams at the end of conflict is a reference for conservation before increased land use. Ecology and Evolution.

David G. Jenkins, Hannah R. Bevan, Wei Chen, Jacob D. Hart, Amanda Lindsay, Laura Macamo, Mekail Negash, Leo Ohyama, Alessandra Pandolfi, & George Zaragoza. Biogeography of the world’s worst invasive species has spatially-biased knowledge gaps but is predictable. Frontiers of Biogeography.

The following papers have been recently accepted:

• Bevan, HR, DG Jenkins, E Suarez, TS Campbell. Nile monitor distribution models in Florida for future eradication efforts. J. Herpetology.

• Guo, Y, EH Boughton, S Bohlman, C Bernacchi, P Bohlen, R Boughton, E DeLucia, J Fauth, N Gomez-Casanovas, DG Jenkins, G Lollis, RS Miller, PF Quintana-Ascencio, G Sonnier, J Sparks, H Swain, J Qiu. 2023. Agricultural intensification alters multifunctionality of metaecosystems. Nature Communications.

Yay!