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Food-web ecology at its best: spiders, springtails and leaf-litter decomposition
As mentioned in my post last week, Prof. David Wise from the University of Illinois at Chicago visited McGill. In this post, I want to cover some of the science that was discussed during his visit, and...
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Rethinking guild classifications for insect herbivores
This is the start a (somewhat) regular series of blog posts highlighting some of my favourite research papers in the discipline of Arthropod ecology – I’ll call this category “must-read research...
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Holistic views of ecosystems: linking salmon and butterflies
Beautiful Anchorage, Alaska I’ve spent most of my week in beautiful Anchorage, Alaska. I was attending a workshop that brought together scientists from Northern countries to discuss an Arctic...
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Opening an ecological black box: entomopathogenic fungi in the Arctic
While visiting Alaska last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Niels M. Schmidt. He is a community ecologist (from Aarhus University, Denmark), who studies Arctic sytems and he is one of the key...
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Help Build an Arctic Food Web
A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to be able to attend a workshop about monitoring terrestrial arthropod biodiversity in the Arctic. In advance of that workshop, I offered to prepare a draft of a...
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A few reasons to study Arctic entomology
I’m a big fan of the Arctic, and I am on a mission to get more people interested in studying northern ecosystems. In this post, I wanted to share some of the reasons why: Poorly understood food-web...
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Arthropods in the tree-tops: Canopy ecology in Quebec (Part 3)
This is the final post in a three part series about studying canopy arthropods in Quebec. Part 1 was about canopy access and Part 2 was about patterns of diversity. This post is about ecological...
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Assessing five decades of change in a high Arctic parasitoid community
As my colleague Terry Wheeler mentioned on his blog, our Northern Biodiversity Program team is thrilled to see post-doc Laura Timms‘s paper about Arctic parasitoid wasps published in Ecography! Our...
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Spiders as catalysts for ecosystem development
It is well known that spiders are effective at dispersal and colonization, in part because of their ability to ‘balloon‘ – small spiders (i.e., immature specimens, or adults of species that are small)...
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Lunch in the tree-tops for the birds and the bugs
A few weeks ago, our laboratory published a paper in PeerJ (an open-access journal) titled “Vertical heterogeneity in predation pressure in a temperate forest canopy“. This work resulted from a project...
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Meet Shaun Turney and Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping
This is another in the series of “Meet the arthropod ecology lab“: Meet PhD student Shaun Turney, and a neat project he’s been working on… I joined the lab in September and I’ve been really enjoying my...
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Yukon field work: Arachnids, landscapes, and the inspiring North
It’s a dream for an arthropod ecologist: a dramatic biome transition from boreal forest to subarctic tundra, a beringian landscape, and diverse and abundant insects and spiders. I have just returned...
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Pyramids of species richness
This post is written by PhD student Shaun Turney, and highlights a recent publication from the lab. Two years ago, I was finishing my MSc and considering whether I’d like to do a PhD, and if so, with...
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