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.
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.
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.
