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We are a research lab at Duke University exploring the causes and consequences of patterns of biological diversity across the planet. We combine observational and experimental approaches with modeling to develop and test hypotheses and build towards synthetic ecological theory. We hope you enjoy exploring our website! You can visit us in person at the Biological Sciences building room 256, 130 Science Drive, Durham NC 27708.
| NewsDec 2011 PolarTREC has chosen Amanda Koltz to host a high school environmental science teacher, Nick LaFave from Clover, SC, at the Toolik Field Station, Alaska. PolarTREC is funded by the NSF Office of Polar Programs.
Dec 2011 Amanda Koltz received a grant from Conservation, Research and Education Opportunities International (CREOI). Oct 2011 Amanda Koltz is now a Ph.D. candidate! Congratulations on passing your prelims, Amanda! Sept 2011 Justin co-authors a paper with the NutNet group in Science: "Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness." Science 23 September 333: 1750-1753 . pdf Sept 2011 Welcome, Steve Anderson! He is a new technician and will be working on the fire regime response and Old Field Succession network projects. Aug 2011 Justin received a 4 year grant from NSF to set up an experimental network along a latitudinal gradient across the Eastern US to determine the relative importance of climate, soils, and evolutionary history in controlling succession in abandoned agricultural fields. Learn more... June 2011 Welcome, Greg Ames! Greg is a new post-doc working on the fire regime response project at Ft. Bragg. Learn more... June 2011 Congratulations, Dr. Si-Yi (Jenny) Wang! Jenny's dissertation title is "Causes and functional consequences of denitrifying bacteria community structure in streams affected to varying degrees by watershed urbanization." |
