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Alison has published the first chapter of her dissertation in Oecologia. Check it out! Nutrient acquisition across a dietary shift: fruit feeding butterflies crave amino acids, nectivores seek salt http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-015-3403-6/fulltext.html

Peay Lab would like to welcome Glade Dlott as our newest lab member and PhD candidate. Glade is a local of the Bay Area, and he recently completed his Masters at University of Maryland, College Park. He is a true … Continue reading →

Last year Peter Vitousek asked me to participate in a discussion on the academic publishing process for new graduate students in the E-IPER program at Stanford. To organize my thoughts on the subject I decided to write a few paragraphs … Continue reading →

Our first open access paper has just been accepted at PLoS One! And it’s a good one. Dylan & I looked at the effects of different lab protocols on the main variables measured by microbial ecologists (richness, community similarity). We … Continue reading →

Holly Moller (a grad student in Tad Fukami’s lab) gives a very smart interview about our new paper on mycorrhizal fungal distributions across the ecological staircase in Mendocino. Make sure to stay tuned until the mycorrhiza song! It’s not to … Continue reading →

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