New work led by Stuart Graham and Hillary Young was featured on the October cover of Ecological Applications. The research analyzes the effects of land-use change on diversity and composition across a wide range of African species and finds highly divergent effect sizes by taxa and by type of land-use change.

Seabirds are excellent samplers of broadscale marine contaminant patterns. Dr. Young co-authored a paper that assessed contaminants and foraging ecology in 5 seabird species from four colonies in the central Pacific as well as the eastern Caribbean.

John Parsons received the award for his research on large herbivores and floral communities.

Elizabeth Forbes just had a paper synthesizing the effects of large herbivores on ecosystem function accepted at Functional Ecology. Fellow graduate student Maggie Klope and Dr. Young are coauthors.

The lab received a new NSF grant in collaboration with the Swei lab at San Francisco State University. 

Dr. Young collaborated on a new paper out in Coral Reefs looking at the effects of fish excretion of the world's largest parrotfish - the Bumphead Parrotfish - on water chemistry in pristine reef ecosystems.

Graduate student Ana Miller-Ter Kuile was awarded an NSF AGEP grant to increase representation of traditionally underrepresented groups in the Academy.

Postdoctoral student John Schroeder receives a Smithsonian postdoctoral fellowship. 

Graduate student Michelle Lee and undergraduate, Tiger Lao, received a Schmidt Family Foundation Research Mentorship grant.