Landscape Ecology of Insects
This is probably one of the most frequent questions I get when I tell people about the work we do here in Iceland. How does someone who has worked mainly in temperate areas, mostly in agricultural systems and salt marshes, with no general propensity for nordic climates (the southern European thing, you know), end up …
Yesterday the annual Biology 152 poster session took place in Union South, and three of the more than three hundred and sixty posters in Varsity Hall came from the Gratton Lab. Heidi, Rachel, and I have been mentoring undergraduates through independent research as part of this course. It is a lot of fun and very …
This question is a focus of the recently aired Perpetual Notion Machine show on WORT 89.9 FM, a science radio program based out of a local station here in Madison. The episode was produced and hosted by Kaitlin and showcased examples of art/science collaborations. Two fellows of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Emerging Interfaces Award, …
Insects live in virtually every freshwater habitat and can be extremely abundant, composing a large part of the animal biomass in lakes and rivers. Aquatic insects have important roles in food webs, acting as decomposers and consumers of aquatic plants. Many are in turn consumed by crayfish, fish, and other predators. But aquatic insects can …
We have had some extreme weather in Wisconsin this spring. Throughout the Northeast and Midwest, an unusually long warm spell propelled us into spring in early-mid March. While many of us were hoping that the warm weather would last, we were not so fortunate. Multiple nights of hard frost and daytime temps barely and rarely …