News
Sharing our latest research at TWS 2023
Nov 11 2023
Our lab networked with colleagues and shared our latest research at the annual meeting of The Wildlife Society in Louisville, KY. Jen presented a poster with her preliminary thesis results and Market gave a talk during the Conservation and Management of Lagomorphs symposium organized by the NA Lagomorph Working Group.
Our lab is moving to Ohio University!
June 28 2023
Our lab is moving to Ohio University, Dept of Biological Sciences in summer 2023. We are so excited to join such a great department! We are recruiting MS and PhD students - if you are interested, please fill out this form by Oct. 9th, 2023 for full consideration for Spring 2024.
Scottish hares in National Geographic Magazine
Feb 20 2023
Our work was covered by National Geographic again. You can read about Scottish mountain hares and their lack of adaptive responses to camouflage mismatch in the March edition of National Geographic Magazine and here.
Molts and mismatch in polymorphic Arctic foxes
Nov 16 2022
Our study on Arctic foxes came out today in Biology Letters and we are thrilled it was selected as the cover article. Using remote camera traps in Sweden, we showed that latitude and weather moderate Arctic fox molt phenology and that white foxes experience relatively low levels of camouflage mismatch.
Hot summers and short snow seasons lower snowshoe hare densities
July 28 2022
Our 21-year snowshoe hare population study led by Alex Kumar was accepted for publication in Global Change Biology. We showed that while mild winters might be beneficial for hares, hot summers and short snow seasons are stronger drivers of hare densities and could drive population declines under climate change.
Marketa is a co-recipient of ESA’s 2022 George Mercer’s Award
April 21 2022
Marketa is thrilled to be one of the co-authors on an article that was awarded this year’s Ecological Society of America's George Mercer Award. In this article, lead by Brian Weeks (University of Michigan), we showed that more than 50 species of migratory birds have declined in size due to increasing temperatures over the past 40 years.
Our work featured in a new book ‘Forget Me Not’
April 9 2022
Our work on the effects of climate change on Scottish mountain hares has been featured in a book! The Forget Me Not: Finding the forgotten species of climate-change Britain comes out on June 9 and we are so excited to be a part of it.
New forum on the role of ecological and evolutionary changes in community restoration
March 2 2022
Ecological restorations often fail even if all pieces of the shattered ecosystem are present (Humpty-Dumpty effect). Marketa co-authored a new forum article in the journal Oikos that looks at how ecological and evolutionary changes can hinder successful restoration efforts.