New Paper: Biodiversity Change & Human Impacts in the Sea

Posted by on Jul 20, 2015 in publications | No Comments

Work in our ocean biodiversity change class and working group is beginning to bear fruit! This Elahi et al. piece looks at timeseries of biodiversity in oceans around the world and finds that in areas of high human impact we are more likely to lose species. However, a number of ecological drivers appear to be […]

Reef Life in Your Back Yard

Posted by on Jun 15, 2015 in talks | No Comments

Recently, Jarrett talked kelp and climate change at the Monadnock Summer Lyceum in New Hampshire. The audio is now online courtesy of New Hampshire Public Radio!

New Paper: Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality

Posted by on Apr 24, 2015 in publications | No Comments

I’m pleased to announce a grand meta-analysis of how biodiversity influences not one or two, but many ecosystem functions at the same time. This was a wonderful collaboration started at NCEAS but ultimately also sucking in Byrnes-labber Marc Hensel as well! Also, check out this interactive map of study sites. Lefcheck, J.S., Byrnes, J.E.K., Isbell, […]

Talking Kelps and Climate Change at the New England Aquarium

Posted by on Nov 14, 2014 in talks | No Comments

It’s always a bit painful to watch yourself talk, but I think this came off pretty well. A public lecture at the New England Aquarium. It was an interesting one to put together, and I’m still working on my style for public non-academic lectures, but all in all, not too shabby… I hope.

Floating Forests: A Kelp Citizen Science Project

Posted by on Aug 8, 2014 in projects | No Comments

Today, we launched the online citizen science project Floating Forests in collaboration with the online citizen science group Zooniverse. Byrnes lab members Jarrett Byrnes and Alison Haupt along with Kyle Cavanaugh from UCLA, Alejandro Perez-Matus from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Tom Bell and Andrew Rassweiler from UC Santa Barbara, and Jorge Assis from the […]

New Paper: In which we publish on squid

Posted by on Jun 19, 2014 in publications | No Comments

A few years ago, Jarrett taught an SEM class to some awesome students in Tjärnö. He kept working with one who was modeling Humboldt squid because, well, squid! It’s out now!

New Paper: The four pillars of scholarly publishing: The future and a foundation

Posted by on Apr 8, 2014 in publications | No Comments

Jarrett’s piece summarizing the consensus from the NCEAS working group The future of publishing in ecology, evolutionary biology, and environmental science is now out at Ideas in Ecology & Evolution. Enjoy!

Tour of our New Home

Posted by on Mar 27, 2014 in lab news | No Comments

In August, we’ll be moving to the new UMB Integrated Sciences Complex. Today, some of the biology faculty got a look at our new digs…check it out! (scroll to the left below)

New Paper: Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Posted by on Feb 19, 2014 in publications | No Comments

A thoughtful review of the challenges and opportunities available for incorporating Biodiversity Ecosystem Function work with Ecosystem Service provision that grew out of an NCEAS working group.

Funded: Food Web Structure & Ecosystem Multifunctionality in New England Salt Marshes SeaGrant

Posted by on Feb 6, 2014 in grants | No Comments

Our SeaGrant project to study variation in New England salt marsh food web structure and ecosystem multifunctionality has been funded! This work will lead to the construction of a general New England food web (underway with some of our stellar undergrads), support for grad and undergrad research, and more!