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New paper coauthored with Ailene MacPherson showing how escape from pathogens can provide a selection pressure favouring seed masting.
Using mathematical models from the disease ecology literature, we show how pathogen escape may provide an additional ‘economy of scale’ selecting for seed masting via the removal of pathogens from the system in non-mast years through density-dependent dynamics. Read the full paper online now in Current Biology. I think this is one of my favourite…
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Jonathan interviews Kowiyou Yessoufou, former member of the African Centre for DNA Barcoding, and now Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg
Jonathan catches up with long-time collaborator and colleague Kowiyou Yessoufou at the University of Johannesburg as part of the African Centre for DNA Barcoding podcast series. Jonathan and Kowiyou discuss biodiversity science and the importance of bioinformatic training in South Africa. This was followed by an animated debate on geopolitics in Africa, (un)fortunately not recorded!
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International Biogeography meeting, Prague 2024
Nick and Avery attended the 11th Biennial meeting of the International Biogeography Society in Prague. Lucky them! Kudos to Avery for structuring his poster in the form of a phylogenetic tree.
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New paper from Isidora on Botryosphaeriaceae host range just published online
From host to host: The taxonomic and geographic expansionof Botryosphaeriaceae (Fungal Biology Reviews 48 (2024) 100352). Here, we explore the factors that shape host breadth of plant pathogens within Botryosphaeriaceae, a fungal family associated with several devastating diseases in economically important crops
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Ross receiving a prize at the 2023 University of Johannesburg Botany Symposium
Ross was awarded a prize for his presentation on Leveraging machine learning to unveil phenological flowering patterns in South African National Botanical Gardens through public databases
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Extremely rare sighting of Jonathan in the lab
Jonathan helping Saima Shikesho extract eDNA from herbivore dung in the lab at the Gobabeb Namib Research Institute, for a study on herbivore diet in the Namib Desert.
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Jonathan interviews Barnabas Daru, former member of the African Centre for DNA Barcoding, and now Assistant Professor at Stanford University.
Part of the Podcast series with the African Centre for DNA Barcoding Podcast, Barnabas Daru discusses his research using phylogeny and his path the Stanford.
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Jonathan Davies at the UNEP GEO-7 authors meeting
Jonathan Davies attended the authors meeting of the Global Environmental Outlook 7 (GEO-7) at the UN in Thailand, March 2023.
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Peter Hollingsworth interviews Jonathan for the African Centre for DNA Barcoding Podcast series
Interview with Jonathan in the first episode of the African Centre for DNA Barcoding Podcast, aired in February 2023, discussing some of the general issues facing biodiversity today.
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Isidora Silva-Valderrama won the 2023 BRC Photo Competition “Comunity Choice” Prize
Look at the post from the Beaty Museum of the winners for the 2023 Biodiversity Research Photo Competition! 📷 by Isidora Silva-ValderramaTitle: Beautiful DiseaseLocation: SuRDC, Summerland, Okanagan Valley, BCDate: 18 OCT 2022Description: Everything looks green at the beginning of the summer, but as the season goes on, the symptoms of this devastating fungal disease in…
The PhyloEcology Lab 