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Vertebrate Evolution: Heads or Tails?
In the aftermath of a mass extinction, nature tends to get creative. Those lucky species that survive often explode with Seussian abandon into a diverse array of shapes, sizes, and behaviors,...
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The List of Explanations for Ocean Acidification Keeps Getting Smaller
Tatoosh Island, Washington (photo from the Pfister Lab) Over the past 20 years, Cathy Pfister and her husband Tim Wootton, both biologists in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, have been...
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Complex Food Webs Meet Big Time Computing
When ecologists study how species interact in their natural environments, one of the most important things to understand is the structure of food webs, the relationships between predator and prey, or...
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Deep Sequencing the English Channel, Or How You Can Find Any Microbe If You...
If you took a random sample of seawater from the ocean, how many species of microbes do you think you would find? A dozen? 500? Sean Gibbons, a student in the graduate program in biophysical sciences,...
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Infection: A Disaster Movie for Gut Microbes?
Imagine if your comfortable existence was suddenly and traumatically disrupted by a disaster. Your home is destroyed, food becomes scarce, and social structures suddenly break down. Even the most...
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The Ghosts of Yellowstone
Field assistant Jared Singer maps a partial elk carcass in Yellowstone National Park. Photo credit: Joshua Miller Paleontologists often deal with time scales in the hundreds of millions of years,...
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When the Predators are Away…
Ancient fish feed on crinoids before the extinction. (Art by Robert Nicholls) At the core of ecology is the perpetual battle between predators and their prey. The relationship typically works like a...
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What Happens to Gorillas on the Pill
In zoos, keepers strive to preserve as much of the natural experience as possible for their animals. But not everything can be left up to nature behind zoo walls. While encouraging reproduction can be...
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When Academia is a Family Business
There’s something quaint and charming about a family business, where multiple generations work shoulder to shoulder to keep an enterprise afloat. But when the business in question is academia and the...
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Nature’s Neverending Tournament
For three weeks starting tonight, the attention of sports fans around the country will be on the brackets of the NCAA Basketball Tournament as 68 teams are methodically reduced to one champion. The...
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