Looking for collaborators and ideas for 'easily' measured plant physiology (stomatal density, conductance?) for Proyecto ALTA.

Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Virginia, Tennessee

Tropical and temperate mountains
Woody and herbaceous species

What are the big (or little) unknowns?

Field work Proyecto ALTA:

Showing new lab tech the ropes

#ACG #CostaRica #biodiversidad #biodiversity

New lab paper alert:

Trait-based ecology is not yet predictive because the proliferation of new metrics muddied the waters.

Where others zig, we zag.

We propose testing old theories with new data.

We advocate for the ubiquitous power law and argue environmental variability in space and time fundamentally shapes trait variation.

Keep an eye out for Umaña led paper where we provide an empirical test.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13620

#Ecology #Scaling #Traits #FunctionalEcology #NSFfunded

Lunch time reading.

Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity.

Scott Collins et al.

The slope here is less than 1 which means that temporal heterogeneity is always less than spatial heterogeneity.

This is true for both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

As predicted by Robin Snyder 10 years prior.

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.2154

#Eecology #TheoreticalEcology #Scaling