March: NSERC hat trick! Nick Mirotchnick was awarded an NSERC PGS-D, Kelly Carscadden (who'll be joining the lab in September as a PhD student) received an NSERC CGS-M, and Marc was awarded a generous 5-year operating grant by NSERC.

Feb: A group paper by Massol et al. on meta-ecosystems is now available online early at Ecology Letters. Plus it is open access. (see also Publications)

Jan: Look for the latest lab publication, a collaborative paper to be published in Ecology on incorporating phylogenetic distances into mechanistic biodiversity-ecosystem function models (see publications)

Dec: Check out the latest collaborative paper on linking metacommunities and metaecosystems in press at Ecology Letters (see publications).

Dec: Generosity rules! Great job for everyone in the lab who donated toys to the Toronto axillary police toy drive. We were able to drop off a huge pile of toys for kids and teens.

Nov: Congrats Robin! Her latest paper has just been published in the December issue of the Journal of Applied Ecology. (see publications)

Oct: Check out the latest lab publication from Marc in Diversity and Distributions.