A YouTube video produced by BYU University Communications highlights a primitive insect-like creature that has survived 30 ice ages and was recently rediscovered in Antarctica by a team of scientists who had been searching for it for decades. “This is what we affectionately refer to as the ghost collembola,” says BYU biology professor Byron Adams,
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Our paper in Functional Ecology explores root herbivory, water availability and above and belowground biomass, and it shows how soil fauna can regulate the way grasses respond to climate change. A plain-language summary of the paper can be accessed here, and our blog post in Functional Ecologists details the behind the scenes for this research. Franco,
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The DNA of tiny Antarctic invertebrates holds clues to past climates and the ancient history of a massive ice sheet. Learn more in this new paper from Diana Wall and colleagues. Collins, G. E. et al. Genetic diversity of soil invertebrates corroborates timing estimates for past collapses of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Proc. Natl.
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Mike Gooseff talked to Science Friday about the work in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. See full interview here: https://massivesci.com/articles/antarctica-dry-valley-melting-ozone-water-climate-change-science-friday/
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Our work on soil biodiversity responses to Amazonian deforestation, in collaboration with Bruno Sobral & Artur Silva from UFPA (Brazil), is on the cover of Conservation Biology this month (June 2019)! Thanks to dozens of published studies on this topic we were able to generate the first data synthesis on the consequences of deforestation in the so-called
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Our own Kaytee Ankrom became the first Wall lab member to win the prestigious VPR fellowship. Kaytee was selected after a 3-minute presentation on the importance of plant-parasitic nematodes to ecosystems under changing climate. We are proud of Kaytee’s achievement! She will have $4,000 for research and travel, and will have the opportunity to participate in
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