Hannah’s Masters work on Nile monitor distributions is now published in Frontiers of Biogeography!

Jason Schroeder successfully defended his doctoral dissertation against the barbarian hordes. Congratulations doctor!

Leo Ohyama (honorary lab member) has a paper accepted in Myrmecological News

Jason’s first chapter of his dissertation is published in Ecosphere! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.2100/full

• Dave’s collaboration with other UCF and MAERC folks (Ho et al. 2018) about the ranch wetland experiment’s effects on soil nutrients is now available at Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. And here.

• Jason and Dave have a paper accepted in Ecosphere about the error sensitivities of different beta diversity measures. Bottom line = some βs are much better than others!

• Pedro and colleagues recently published two papers:

  • Menges, E., Crate, S.J.H., Quintana-Ascencio, P.F.. 2017. Dynamics of gaps, vegetation, and plant species with and without fire. American Journal of Botany | pdf

  • de la Cruz, Marcelino, Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Luis Cayuela, Carlos I. Espinosa, Adrián Escudero. 2017. Comment on “The extent of forest in dryland biomes.” Science | pdf

• A paper on soil nutrient effects of the ranch experiment (Dave is 1 of 6 co-authors) is now accepted in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.

• A paper by Steffan Pierre, Betsey Boughton, Pedro and Dave is in Biological Invasions. The paper is based on Steffan’s MS thesis on the invasive apple snail, Pomacea maculata.

• A paper by Pedro and colleagues has been accepted in Plant Ecology!