July: Congratulations to Dr. Lanna Jin on successfully defending her dissertation! Way to go Lanna -we are all very proud of you.

July: Its been a great month with papers accepted in Trends in Ecology and Evolution; Biological Invasions; Biological Reviews; Ecological Indicators; and Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management!

June: Congrats Shaopeng -our latest paper on succession was just accepted at Ecology Letters!

May: Congrats Stuart for receiving the TD Graduate Research Scholarship in Environmental Science!

May: Lanna's paper on phylogenetic beta-diversity has been published in the Journal of Ecology!.

April: Look for a new collaborative R package called 'Pez', led by Will Pearse, which has a number of phylogenetic tools for ecologists. Also, look for the release notes coming out in Bioinformatics.

Feb: Lanna just got a paper accepted in the Journal of Ecology on phylogenetic turnover. Great job Lanna!