A weekly highlight of new research in biogeography- the study of how living things got to live where they do on planet Earth and where they might go in the future. Friday, December 26, 2014. Benny the bark beetle and the not-so palatable pine. And other herbivores intending to lunch on enticing green needles or tender inner bark may be surprised to get a mouthful of nasty chemical compounds. Or gummy resin produced by these trees expressly for the purpose of deterring such intrusions. In the meantime I w.

In the Department of Biology. I graduated in 2012 from Amherst College, where I worked in the Miller lab. Studying the evolution of the mating system gene,. In island and mainland populations of. Is part of a mechanism that determines the ability of a plant to self-fertilize. I studied how allelic diversity at this gene varied among populations that were and were not self-compatible.

A PhD student in mountain ecology, writing about all the adventures that come with scientific research. On top of the world. On top of the world. On thursday evening, a massive cold front rolled over Belgium, accompanied by dark and dangerous clouds and severe thunderstorms. A huge sailing boat to sail the storm. At least the net did not move an inch! What a relief, no damage done! August 12, 2015. During with the nice and persistent heath we were experiencing in Bel.

Beetle ecology, phylogeny and function. The use and abuse of phylogenetics in community ecology. Have a really interesting issue focusing on phylogenetic community ecology.

For those of us who get all googly-eyed about snails and stuff. Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Predation and better even than tautonomical IGP. I wrote a few weeks ago about how massive numbers of Velella 2.