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As ecosystems heat and green, ant abundance and diversity increases; but too much heat and these communities lose colonies and species.
One paradox in the recent flurry of papers reporting insect declines is that insects—ectotherms that rely on external sources of heat—are often predicted to benefit as their environment warms. In an open access paper accepted as a Report in the…
Read MoreArts and Sciences
When students are asked to covey a principle of ecology in a work of art, remarkable things happen.
Read MoreThe Ten Principles of Ecology
I have been teaching a course called “Principles of Ecology” at OU since 1996. It was a traditional two one-hour lecture, one three-hour lab for most of those years. In 2013, I decided to flip the course, converting the lectures…
Read MoreOne way to build a dietary generalist
Karl Roeder gives some background on the dietary diversity hidden in a population of red imported fire ants
Read MoreWhat journal gets the first peek at your manuscript? Results from a year of ruminating.
The manuscript’s done. Now what?
Read MoreHow to schedule a committee meeting
How to get your committee in one room, and in a reasonably good mood.
Read MoreNot all male ants are “sperm missiles”
When your mating system calls for patience, male ants will stick around for a while.
Read MoreOn the salutary effect of the Kudos Email
If you like someone’s work, don’t just cite them, write them!
Read MoreOn writing a strong NSF pre-proposal
Its been 4 years since NSF DEB began to require pre-proposals. What makes a strong one?
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