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New Zealand; New PhD Student; New Grant
It’s been a while since we posted about the lab, so we have accumulated three new news items! First, Alison and I attended the Ecology and Management of Plant Invasions (EMAPI) conference in Lincoln, Aotearoa New Zealand back in September. Alison presented a flashtalk and poster on her recent vegetation survey work on Bermuda, and…
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Congratulations to Alison: The introduced and invasive flora of Bermuda is now published!
Alison has just had the first chapter of her PhD published, which provides the most comprehensive flora of Bermuda’s vascular plants that includes all known introduced and invasive plant species. You can find the study (open access) here. Take-home message: Bermuda’s flora is dominated by introduced plant species, outnumbering native species by more than 10…
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New publications from an old lab member
Katy Ivison (formerly a PhD student in the lab), had double success recently, with publications from her PhD in Oikos and in Diversity & Distributions (DDI). The Oikos study was a complex multi-species experiment, assessing the effects of artifical warming, reduced herbivory and native competition on introduced plant performance in Norway. Find out more by…
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