June: See Marc's interview in Science Magazine on Lin Jiang's evolutionary history-competition experiment in Ecology Letters.

May: Check out the latest article published in PloS ONE by Marc and Sharon Strauss on phylogenetic patterns of invasion and extinction.

April: A paper on phylogenetic patterns of colonization and extinction by Marc and Sharon Strauss was just accepted by PLoS ONE. (see Publications)

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).