This year, Colorado State University Distinguished Professor Diana Wall joins the likes of Sir David Attenborough, Edward O. Wilson, and other scientific luminaries as an Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society (BES). Honorary membership is the highest honor BES can give. The primary criteria for honorary membership is a lifetime’s achievement in the science of ecology or its application. The Awards Ceremony […]

A meeting chaired by Dr. John Priscu (Montana State University) and co-chaired by CSU professors Dr. Adrian Howkins, environmental historian, and Diana Wall, soil ecologist, brought more than 40 Antarctic scientists to Colorado State University, with the aim of improving the environmental management of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The Wall lab was involved in organizing the NSF workshop,

“Improving soil health can lead to healthier people, according to a new paper published by a Colorado State University professor”. Colorado Public Radio covers recent study by Dr. Diana Wall and former Wall lab postdoc Dr. Uffe Nielsen.

The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI), chaired by Dr. Diana Wall, and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of European Commission announce the launch of the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas (GSBA) in the frame of the Global Soil Biodiversity Assessment. Assess this page for digital download (free) or to order a print copy (€25/$28).

Colorado State researchers, including Dr. Diana Wall and her team of “Wormherders,” are on location at the McMurdo Dry Valley Long-Term Ecological Research Station on Ross Island, Antarctica. Dr. Wall’s team is working on a project that looks at what happens to soil and the many microscopic species living within it when permafrost melts and the

Water Availability Controls on Above-Belowground Productivity Partitioning: Herbivory versus Plant Response Net primary productivity is the sum of aboveground net primary production (ANPP: leaves etc.) and the less frequently studied belowground net primary productivity (BNPP: roots etc.). Understanding of BNPP is a key process in terrestrial ecosystem functioning because in most water-limited ecosystems, BNPP accounts

Water Availability Controls on Above-Belowground Productivity Partitioning: Herbivory versus Plant Response. The objective of this newly funded study is to elucidate the differential effects of temporal and spatial changes in water availability on belowground net primary productivty and the ecological mechanisms behind those patterns. See more…