Strange sight: Large portions of #JordanLake dried and turned to mud flats. This reservoir supports heaps of biodiversity at the mouth of the Haw river… or, it did… Haw River Assembly N.C. DEQ WRAL NEWS in NC

video credit: Zachary Turner

Exciting News! Our paper on mammalian litter size and its relationship with climate and body size is now published online in Ecography. #BiodiversityInformatics #LifeHistory

doi.org/10.1111/ecog.0…

Olivia Chapman Sarah Gora robgural Bryan McLean Ecography UNCG Biology

For the Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in the class I’m coordinating we’re simulating hurricane flooding and storm surges that occur in the longleaf pine savanna. Today we inundated Little Bluestem with freshwater and saltwater and we’ll see how they fare!

Think about your 3 best friends. If none of them are beetles

You are the beetle

50 climate leaders were selected by grist to tell their stories & drive innovative solutions to our planet’s biggest problems. GRSchug is among those #grist50 🎉 bringing biological anthropology to the forefront of climate action 🔍 grist.org

Dr. Sally Koerner talks at #ESA about multi-year drought and grazing management!
UNCG Biology
#ESA 2023

First day at #ESA2023 featured talks from @uncg’s Shota Shibasaki and Dr. Sally Koerner on food chain dynamics and rangeland drought impacts 🌾🦗

OK here we go. Conceivably the greatest, most technical accomplishment in the history of natural history art: nearly 4000 glass models of flowers created by Rudolph and Leopold #Blaschka for Harvard Museum. None of the objects in here look like glass.
Readers, they're all glass.

Big ups to UNCG Biology PhD-student Alyssa Young, who recently was awarded a USDA PreDoctoral Fellowship!🤩👏🌲Dr. Sally Koerner cas.uncg.edu/research/2023/…

Congrats to Dr. Louis-Marie Bobay, our 2023 UNCG Early Career Research Excellence Award winner. 🏆

Louis-Marie Bobay of UNCG Biology (& UNCG_CompSci JSNN-Nano Greensboro) is recognized for his scholarship on the evolution of microbial genomes & populations.

📖 more at research.uncg.edu/news/2023-rese…

Alyssa Young Check out the winning paper: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Congratulations to Alyssa Young et al. for winning the 2023 Robert P. McIntosh Award for best recent paper in Vegetation Ecology!! We had a wonderful pool of papers the year, so thanks to all finalists for submitting their papers. Congrats again Alyssa!!

Amazing work by Alyssa Young - congrats congrats!!

Why do plant names change?

And why do these changes make life rather difficult for plant lovers, and even for the taxonomists?

Prof Peter Linder gives 3 reasons for name changes, and tells us why they’re often important.

#Taxonomy

Sassafras in early spring is a burst of sunshine just when you need it most. ☀️ This small native tree grows in forests and old fields in the eastern U.S.: it's common in our area!

More about sassafras: instagram.com/p/Cpi6DemPmfX/…

Wow !

Have a good time with RhizoVision Explorer. Batch analysis has an excellent feature.

Thanks to you.

Cool bug alert everyone!

Will never be able to fully express my gratitude for my amazing lab, friends, family, support team, and so, so many others for helping me get to this point of being Dr. Frost. #PhDone

Used in nonstick coating and food packaging, GenX has been found to impact a variety of bodily functions. Learn more on Wednesday when we're joined by Dr. Ho Young Lee for his seminar on, 'Consequences of Pulmonary Exposure to GenX' UNCG College of Arts & Sciences

RUBY roots. Slow and steady progress!
Great work by master student Gijs Asselt (UU_Plants)
#plantbio