The Frishkoff lab is teaming up the the Mahler Lab of The University of Toronto (https://mahlerlab.com/) to continue researching the anole and eleuthrodactylid community structure of the Island.
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Luke and Dan head off to Cleveland OH to attend Evolution 2022.
Luke will be talking about: “Evolutionary Opportunity and the Limits of Community Similarity in Replicate Radiations of Island Lizards”
Dan will be presenting work from his PhD entitled: “Climate anomalies and competition reduce establishment success during biological invasion”
PhD Students Zack Lange and Edita Folfas both passed their qualifying exams! Congratulations
Dan Nicholson from the UK joins the lab as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate. Welcome Dan!
Puerto Rico 2021
Our fieldwork in Puerto Rico was incredibly successful. We saw every species of anole on the island, ran tons of field surveys to estimate lizard abundance, and collected a ton of lizard poop samples to determine what they were eating.
Congrats to Alex Murray – the first chapter of his dissertation was published at Global Ecology and Biogeography!
Traits do predict species sensitivity to habitat modification, but a one size fits all relationship falls down on the job. Instead the trait-sensitivity relationship changes depending on what climate zone habitat modification occurs in, offering a potential reason for past inconsistencies in studies of trait effects.
Find the Paper here:
Congrats to Kris Row for passing his qualifying exams, and moving up to PhD Candidacy.
We’re excited to welcome Zack Lange and Edita Folfas to the lab as incoming PhD students!
SOCIALLY DISTANCED FIELDWORK
Our fieldwork in Texas has us questing to understand the ecological forces that determine lizard range limits and local abundances.
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