To be clear, I am not a virologist, nor am I a public health expert. But I do know how to analyze patterns of evolutionary diversity. Resea...

There is so much bad news about global biodiversity, that it is nice to hear about new undertakings and approaches. One of these is the ...

with Florent Mazel As has been a recurrent topic on the blog recently ( here , and here and elsewhere), it is difficult to know when it ...

Community phylogenetics has received plenty of criticism over the last ten years (e.g. Mayfield and Levine, 2010; Gerhold et al. 2015). Much...

*note -this post originally appeared on the Applied Ecologist's blog Like canaries in coal mines, species can provide important inf...

Guest post by Shelby Hofstetter, currently enrolled in the Professional Masters of Environmental Science program at the University of Toron...

Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on community assembly. 2015. Gary G. Mittelbach, Douglas W. Schemske. Trends in Ecology and Evolu...

How can we better predict invasions? Ernesto Azzurro, Victor M. Tuset,Antoni Lombarte, Francesc Maynou, Daniel Simberloff,  Ana Rodrígue...

*Sorry for the low frequency of posts these days – I seem to be insanely busy this summer  ☺ Oscar Godoy, Nathan Kraft, Jonathan Levine....