Multi‐Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests: A Mammal Interactions Hub in a Single Tree Species We documented arboreal, multi-species mammal latrines in montane cloud forests of Costa Rica by surveying 169 trees across 29 species. Latrines were found exclusively on Ficus tuerckheimii, with 11 o....

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weather station that got burnt during a controlled burn.

Our weather station was taken out by a controlled burn, right after a flood destroyed our water quality meter. The Mara River ecosystem in Kenya is studying us now.

wildebeest in the savanna

Big picture: large animals don't just move nutrients, they move microbes and restructure food webs from the bottom up. As megafauna decline, we're losing ecosystem functions we've barely begun to describe.

hippos in a hippo pool

More wildlife = more multichannel feeding across detrital and algal pathways. At high input sites, river flow barely affected consumer diets...hippo subsidies may buffer the food web against hydrological variation.

A Gradient of Wildlife Subsidies Alters Riverine Food Web Structure Terrestrial subsidies play a key role in freshwater food web structure and ecosystem function. Animal-mediated subsidies in particular provide high quality resources that shape aquatic food webs. ...

In Freshwater Biology, Frauendorf et al. show wildlife subsidies restructure the Mara River food web. Fish shifted from 2% to 73.5% reliance on wildlife-derived resources along a hippo/wildebeest gradient. doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70208

Bioreactors on the Move: How Animals Contribute to Microbial Community Coalescence and Shape Ecosystem Function Animals are moving bioreactors, assimilating microbial taxa from the environment, which then undergo selective filtering in their gut. Animals then deposit this new microbial community back into the ....

In Environmental Microbiology, we argue animals are "mobile bioreactors"...ingesting environmental microbes, transforming them in the gut, and depositing novel communities back into the environment. Case studies from hippos, coral reef fish, and earthworms. doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70291

elephants crossing a river

Two new papers from our group! Dutton & Subalusky labs @ufresearch.bsky.social, Frauendorf lab at @colgate.edu, @cgrupstra.bsky.social lab at #FAU, and Post lab at #Yale on how large wildlife reshape ecosystems 🦛🌊🧵

The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...

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My new commentary in Science recounts the history of stabilization wedges and features the updates to the wedges by Johnson and Staffell.

Read the commentary: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Read the Wedge 2026: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wow. Truly humbled by the support. Thank you all so much. 🙏

Biology – WILDS: Water and Wildlife in the Labs of Dutton and Subalusky - Gator Nation Giving Day Our research uncovers how animals and microbes shape the health of ecosystems - from Florida wetlands to African rivers. By supporting the Dutton and Subalusky Labs, you help us train future scientist...

We did it! Thanks to you, our labs hit the Gator Nation Giving Day challenge and unlocked the extra support for our students. Thank you for standing up and hollering with us today. #AllForTheGators

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Will It Stick? How to Tell Whether Probiotics and Prebiotics Will ‘Take’ Researchers used computer models to predict whether probiotics will “take” in individual microbiomes and how prebiotics shape gut chemistry.

For a popular-science summary of our work, see Joe Myxter's excellent writeup on the @isbscience.org website: isbscience.org/news/health/...

Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of prebiotic and probiotic treatment efficacy across multiple human intervention trials Prebiotic and probiotic interventions can induce therapeutically relevant shifts in the human microbiome, but their effects are variable across individuals. This study shows that metabolic models can ...

Our latest is out today in @plosbiology.org:

"Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of prebiotic and probiotic treatment efficacy across multiple human intervention trials"

@isbscience.org @uwbioe.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social

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Biology – WILDS: Water and Wildlife in the Labs of Dutton and Subalusky - Gator Nation Giving Day Our research uncovers how animals and microbes shape the health of ecosystems - from Florida wetlands to African rivers. By supporting the Dutton and Subalusky Labs, you help us train future scientist...

Four hours to go in Gator Nation Giving Day, and we’re just 4 donations away from unlocking a 2,000 dollar challenge gift for our lab. Every gift moves us closer and supports student-driven research Florida to African rivers. givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/bi... #AllForTheGators

Biology – WILDS: Water and Wildlife in the Labs of Dutton and Subalusky - Gator Nation Giving Day Our research uncovers how animals and microbes shape the health of ecosystems - from Florida wetlands to African rivers. By supporting the Dutton and Subalusky Labs, you help us train future scientist...

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Biology – WILDS: Water and Wildlife in the Labs of Dutton and Subalusky - Gator Nation Giving Day Our research uncovers how animals and microbes shape the health of ecosystems - from Florida wetlands to African rivers. By supporting the Dutton and Subalusky Labs, you help us train future scientist...

Gator Nation Giving Day 2026 is almost here, but early gifts are already rolling in.

If you’d like to support student-driven water and wildlife research in our WILDS labs, you can give any time using our fund page: givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/bi...
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🚨 Job Alert! TT Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks! Looking for a candidate with a focus on coastal ecology. Come be my colleague! Please share.

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Genetic architecture and mechanisms of host-microbiome interactions from a multi-cohort analysis of outbred laboratory rats - Nature Communications The intestinal microbiome is shaped by genetics and environment. Here, the authors show in rats that host genetic effects, including indirect social effects, influence microbiome composition, identify...

Our lab’s first paper on host-microbiome interactions is out today!

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Asst Prof job opening at UF Biology!

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Super fun to give the keynote at the American Zoological Association Nutrition Meeting in Oklahoma City! Talked about my lab's work in Kenya, Congo, and with Zoos across the US. A truly great group of passionate, kind people.

Apply Now! Tenure-track Faculty Position in Marine Bioscience at the University of Florida's Whitney Lab. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

🚨🚨 New tenure-track job posting! 🚨🚨

The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, with an open research focus.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

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Reminder, we’re hiring 2 PhD students for next year!! I’m extending the deadline to Nov 1, but please get your app in soon if you’re interested in joining us! More info is on our webpage. 🦠🦑

Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)

Picture of our robotic bunny used as a python lure in the Everglades.

Pretty tickled to see our little guy on the big screen during the keynote address of the UF School of Natural Resources and Environment Research Symposium.

It's all good! We have a spare land rover...and my hopes and dreams are highly adaptable.

If you look closely, you can see my hopes and dreams under the oil cooler to the left.

PEEP - Power Estimator for Ecological Planning | Statistical Power Calculator PEEP: Your friendly companion for sample size calculations and power analysis in ecological research. Professional tools for field studies, experimental design, and grant proposals.

Just finished a first draft of an ecological power analyzer app. Been watching students struggle to figure out sample sizes. Hope this helps. Fork it, steal it, use it. Mostly accurate. Work in progress. ufduttonlab.github.io/peep-power/

Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

OK, this is amazing.

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