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Warming and Chronic High Nutrient Manipulations Yield Differing Legacy Effects on the Soil Microbial Community and Nutrient Pools in the Low Arctic
(2016-08-05)Climate warming is predicted to increase summer air temperatures in the Arctic, warming soils and enhancing microbial decomposition of soil organic matter. Given the size of the soil carbon stores in the Arctic, even a ... -
What traits predispose the Band-rumped Storm-petrel, Oceanodroma castro, to ecological speciation in the absence of physical barriers to gene flow?
(2013-02-01)Evidence for the repeated, independent evolution of hot- and cool-season breeding populations across colonies of the Band-rumped Storm-petrel has garnered much interest from seabird ecologists and evolutionary biologists, ... -
The White Gene and Locomotor Recovery From Anoxia in Drosophila Melanogaster
(2016-07-05)Locomotor recovery from anoxia is complicated and little is known about the molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating anoxic recovery in Drosophila. For this thesis I established a protocol for large-scale analysis of ... -
Why is a robin’s egg blue? Exploring the evolution of egg colour in birds
(2009-05-28)A recent hypothesis for explaining blue-green eggs in birds suggests that they may be a sexually selected signal of female (and thus nestling) quality that males use to make parental investment decisions. Although this ... -
Will empathy save us?
(2013)Recent prescriptions for rescuing civilization from collapse involve extending our human capacity for empathy to a global scale. This is a worthy goal, but several indications leave grounds for cautious optimism at best. ... -
Windows of opportunity: the timing of dispersal events influences zooplankton community response to environmental change in Subarctic ponds
(2012-09-17)Theoretical and empirical work has shown that community diversity and composition can be influenced by both local conditions and dispersal from a regional species pool. This may be especially true shortly after environmental ...