Author: jwbenning

John, Amanda, and Dave were awarded an Institute on the Environment Mini Grant to pilot a new urban citizen science project, City Backyard Science. The three main areas the project addresses are: Conservation: How do we increase urban greening, habitat heterogeneity, and biodiversity? (There has been encouraging work showing that small green areas in cities … Continue reading Backyard Science project receives pilot funding!

One of our undergraduate superstars, Lex Faulkner, is first author on a new paper in Chemoecology looking at chemical alarm cues in fathead minnows. This work was completed during a summer field course at the University of Minnesota's Itasca Biological Station. Check out the paper here. Congrats Lex!

Dave and Ryan have a new paper in press in AmNat that examines the contribution of both male and female fitness to selection on floral traits and mating system evolution in Clarkia xantiana.

Dave and Ryan have a new paper in press in Ecology Letters, a meta-analysis looking at mating system variation in seed plants across the globe. Check it out here.

John Benning was chosen from a competitive pool of applicants to receive the Charles J. Brand Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. The Brand fellowship rewards top graduate students in the botanical sciences at UMN. Congrats John!

UMN CBS Connect had a feature article on the Moeller lab's work using species distribution modeling to better predict and manage spread of invasive species in Minnesota.

Amanda has started a large urban field experiment in Minneapolis, manipulating rainfall to look at local adaptation in ragweed -- read about it here.