October 2014 – Kembel @ UQAM

October 19, 2014

New article on functional traits

Congrats to Ph.D. student Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe on publishing her article on the importance of intraspecific trait variability in Scots pine!

I. Laforest-Lapointe, J. Martínez-Vilalta, and J. Retana. 2014. Intraspecific variability in functional traits matters: case study of Scots pine. Oecologia 175:1337-1348.

October 15, 2014

La diversité microbienne sur les feuilles tropicales

On a publié un article dans PNAS sur l’écologie des bactéries sur les feuilles tropicales:

Actualités UQAM : Arbres et communautés bacteriennes

S.W. Kembel, T.K. O’Connor, H.K. Arnold, S.P. Hubbell, S.J. Wright, and J.L. Green. 2014. Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 38:13715-13720.

October 15, 2014October 16, 2014

Lab website update

The lab website has been updated, and we’ve moved to a new domain at kembellab.ca.

Thanks to Cam Webb for hosting us at phylodiversity.net for so many years. Content from the old site at phylodiversity.net/skembel will be migrated to the new site shortly.