Diana Named Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society

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 […]

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Scientists Converge at CSU to Discuss Antarctic Conservation

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,

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Wall Lab and School of Global Environmental Sustainability

The Wall lab and the School of Global Environmental Sustainability look back at a successful 2015, and look forward to a new year that promises to be even more eventful. The school’s Director Dr. Diana Wall (standing, seventh from the right), PhD candidate Ashley Shaw and postdocs Dr. Tandra Fraser and Dr. Walter Andriuzzi (seated, right to left) will soon be leaving for a new

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School of Global Environmental Sustainability

The School of Global Environmental Sustainability is an umbrella organization encompassing all research and education that deals with the complex environmental, economic, and societal issues of sustainability. Check out upcoming events to engage in dialog on important issues of sustainability here. You can follow the School of Global Environmental Sustainability on Twitter at @SOGES_CSU  

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Wormherders 2014-15

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

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Grassland Research

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

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Water Availability Controls on Above-Belowground Productivity Partitioning

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…

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