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August 2024
I had a great time supporting the annual biodiversity field course in the Alps last week! Thanks to all who participated!
December 2023
I attended the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and presented new results from our ongoing project “Indirect spatial effects and meta-ecosystem resilience in a changing world” in the Theoretical and Computational Ecology session.
November 2023
I delivered a seminar in the Behaviour, Ecology, Environment and Evolution Seminar series at the University of Zurich on our recently submitted paper “Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide”.
October 2023
The first paper from our Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution working group “Detecting and attributing synchrony in cross-ecosystem community dynamics in coastal oceans” was accepted for publication!
September 2023
I attended the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (GfÖ) in Leipzig, Germany and gave two presentations! First, I presented our recent publication “The significance of partial migration for food web and ecosystem dynamics”. In addition, I presented new results from an ongoing collaborative project led by Isabelle Gounand (CNRS): “Cross-ecosystem spatial flows between habitats of contrasting functioning”.
August 2023
Our session “Understanding biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across ecosystem boundaries” was accepted at the World Biodiversity Forum 2024 in Davos, Switzerland. We welcome talks from theoretical/computational, empirical, and applied projects and look forward to a great discussion on cross-ecosystem interactions!
July 2023
I visited the Sorbonne University in Paris, France to discuss the development of a new mathematical model for our ongoing project on autotrophic-heterotrophic meta-ecosystems!
May 2023
May was full of fun team-building activities. We went to Amden, Switzerland for an interactive, two-day scientific retreat, during which I led a discussion group on variation in ecology, we hiked in the persistent rain, and we ate a lot of raclette.
Earlier in the month, we participated in the SOLA relay, joining 1,000 other teams running 115km around Zürich. We celebrated making it across the finish line with a great BBQ afterwards!
March 2023
I visited CEREEP – ECOTRON in France to participate in a meta-ecosystem experiment testing predictions from one of the mathematical models we developed in our recent paper “Traits affecting nutrient recycling by mobile consumers explain coexistence and spatially-heterogeneous regulation across a meta-ecosystem”.
November 2024
Our annual scientific retreat in the Alps was a success, with everyone coming together for three days of lively discussions, hiking, and cheese. Many ideas and connections sparked!