Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, US science leaders and others have expressed frustration with the lack of an informed and coherent federal response, a sentiment that echoes objections to the handling of other pressing issues, such as climate change. Writing in BioScience, an assemblage of the past presidents of the American Institute of …
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Congrats to Stefan Geisen, Maria Briones, Huijie Gan, Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Ville-Petri Friman, Arjende Groot, Emilia Hannula, Zoë Lindo, Laurent Philippot, Alexei Tiunov, and Diana Wall for having their paper “A Methodological Framework to Embrace Soil Biodiversity” chosen by the journal Soil Biology & Biochemistry as one of 5 papers that exemplify the importance of soils …
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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/
This new paper integrates data from the Wall lab and others internationally to develop a global understanding of soil nematodes.
Extreme drought alters trophic structure belowground, releasing plant parasites from predation. But the magnitude of these effects changes spatially. Those are the main conclusions of our study published today in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science). A press release about the study can be viewed here. These findings may have serious implications for the …
Our multi-site study on grassland nematodes and drought published in PNAS Read More »
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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Diana Wall and Ashley Shaw attended the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Summit in June 2018 in Davos, Switzerland. They presented research on their soil biodiversity work in the McMurdo Dry Valley of Antarctica.
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 …
Diana Wall is among the world’s top 1% of most highly cited scientists with outsized influence across several fields during the last decade, according to the 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list by Web of Science. The Highly Cited Researchers list identifies scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated significant influence through publication of multiple highly cited papers …
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The Antarctic Sun features Diana Wall’s and colleagues’ work during the 2017/2018 field season in “The Ice”: https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=4375 For more information on the Wall lab’s research in Antarctica click here: https://walllab.colostate.edu/research/antarctica/