by Steven Allison | Jun 15, 2021 | News
Drought imposes a legacy of inhibition on microbial decomposition – New paper in Ecosphere by former postdoc Bin Wang uses our trait-based model to show the mechanism. But, dispersal nearly eliminates the legacy!
by Steven Allison | Apr 24, 2021 | News
A new collaborative publication shows that termite diversity and abundance is much higher in savannah ecosystems than in rainforests of Northern Australia. Termites are crucial for cycling carbon in tropical ecosystems, but in contrast to other continents, termite...
by Steven Allison | Apr 23, 2021 | News
Although cycles of drought are common in the Southwestern United States, climate change has made these droughts more frequent and more severe. Understanding how soil organisms, fungi in particular, are coping with those changes is important because fungi are major...
by Steven Allison | Jan 31, 2021 | News
Our new study shows that when a tree falls in the tropical forest, termites come to the buffet! Wood decomposition, mainly driven by termites, increases by more than 60% after trees fall and create canopy gaps in Malaysian tropical rainforest.
