Felicity has two new papers looking at how climate structures biodiversity patterns in tropical forests. Her first paper in Global Change Biology shows how rapid changes in precipation across fine spatial scales cause bird communities to flip the phenology of their reproductive cycles. This study came out of the Aves de Bosque Montano Peruano study… Read more

Ian has two new papers from students he mentored during his time in Switzerland. Lucy Novovitch’s MSc thesis is in the African Journal of Ecology, looking at how the community-managed Ipole Wildlife Management Area in Tanzania manages for over 50 species of mammals. Her huge field effort involved deploying hundreds of camera traps across the… Read more

This collaboration provides a first look at how avian visual acuity and sensitivity have evolved in concert with nest architecture strategies. Using existing databases on eye size, nest construction behavior, and traits related to the color of eggs and nestling gapes for over 1600 species of Passerine birds, our results point toward the evolution of… Read more