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New postdoc position in advancing trait- based ecology – 2019
Opening for a 2-year postdoctoral position in Trait-based ecology (ExperTS) to start Fall 2019 – University of Arizona, USA and University of Bergen, Norway. Application deadline July 15th, 2019 ExperTS – Experiments, Traits, Synthesis: Using knowledge from global ecological experiments to validate, assess, and improve trait-based theory The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Department...
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Macroecology lab action at ESA 2018
The Macroecology lab is presenting several lines of new research and findings at the annual convention of the Ecological Society of America Meeting in New Orleans next week. There is also one organized meeting as well as an organized symposium. Come an stop by and attend/chat with us! We will be updating this schedule as...
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Join us – Announcing the first OpenTraits workshop – 4-5 August, 2018, New Orleans
We were excited to have our OpenTraits initiative featured in the journal Functional Ecology as part of their blog. You can read more about the feature here. Spanning animal and plant biology – the critical need for an Open Traits initiative across biology August 4-5, 2018, prior to the Ecological Society of America annual meetings,...
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Plant Functional Traits Course in Svalbard just announced – apply by April 2018
Plant Functional Traits Course 4 Do you want to travel to over 70 degrees North Latitude? The 4th International Plant Functional Traits Course will be held at the University Centre in Svalbard, Norway, 16-27 July.. The International Plant Functional Traits Courses offer a hands-on experience with collecting and exploring plant functional traits data in a...
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Guest post – Trait-climate relationships of New World woody and herbaceous plants
In this post we feature a post by Dr. Benjamin Blonder who wrote about a new lab and BIEN paper that just came out. The work is led by Irena Šimova who has been a visiting international lab postdoc and has spearheaded this work. Visit Ben Blonder’s new lab up at ASU and his blog...