This year's Front Range Student Ecology Symposium was another wonderful community-building event filled with exciting research, insightful workshops, and excellent presentations. This event is always a highlight of the year, and it's a joy to connect with so many peers over a shared love of ecology!

It's time for the Front Range Student Ecology Symposium! This symposium brings together students from all across the front range to share their research, attend professional development workshops, and build their networks. Check out the keynote speaker and workshop lineup below!

We are delighted to be joined today by Dr. Paul CaraDonna of the Chicago Botanic Garden and Northwestern University for his seminar, "Time, flexibility, and the importance of plant-pollinator interactions." We hope to see you there!

Contrasting drought sensitivity of Eurasian and North American grasslands - Nature Eurasian grasslands have high production sensitivity to extreme drought compared with North American grasslands.

In this recent study, GDPE faculty Dr. Melinda Smith and Dr. Alan Knapp reveal how extreme drought impacts productivity and species richness differently in Eurasian vs. North American grasslands. Learn more at the link below!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Asymmetric sensitivity of boreal forest resilience to forest gain and loss - Nature Ecology & Evolution Boreal forests have been experiencing both gains and losses in recent decades. Here, the authors show that boreal forest resilience is more sensitive to forest cover losses than to gains, indicating t...

In this study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, GDPE faculty affiliate Dr. Anping Chen and a team of researchers find that replacing the same amount of forest lost cannot restore the resilience diminished by that loss:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

that is wildly cool!! Nature is amazing.

Congratulations to Dr. Tom Hobbs, Dr. David Cooper, and Dr. Danielle Johnston, as well as GDPE alumni Dr. Kristin Marshall and Evan Wolf, for having their research featured in Nature Ecology and Evolution's Year in Review collection!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fort Collins has lots to offer, including this nearly surreal view of Horsetooth Reservoir on the E side looking S

The woodpecker in question, pecking away.

Ecology@CSU went up to Rocky Mountain National Park last weekend, or one of us did, anyway. ;) We saw a weasel!!! OMG the cutest thing ever. White, long tail, black tip. And a woodpecker. Hairy? Tap tap tapping away.

Happy New Year, bluesky-ers! We wish you health and happiness, and hope your year ahead will be a good one, personally and professionally.

Students get to be part of their advisor's department (the "Advising Department") and Ecology - double the fun, and often double the opportunities for fun...ding.

Ecology is a "special academic unit," an SAU as Colorado State University calls them. We cut across multiple colleges and departments. This is great! So much diverse expertise, so many great collaborations and opportunities.

Ecology is in the house!