Talking about authorship As Editor-in-Chief of Austral Ecology (published by Wiley), I have been giving some ‘Writing for Publication’ workshops worldwide. Part of the workshop is talking about authorship guidelines. One thing that became clear was that Wrly Career Researchers (ECR’s) attending the workshop had not had a conversation about authorship with their supervisors or Read More…
Author: nandrew
The ants go marching …
What do some of our smallest creatures have to tell us about the bigger impacts of climate change? A great deal, it turns out, says Professor Nigel Andrew, from the University of New England’s Insect Ecology Lab. He believes the common meat ant, found in large numbers across much of Australia, may prove an accurate Read More…
Nigel is currently overseas visiting colleagues and attending workshops.
Nigel was invited to SLU – the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden to visit Dr Alva Curtsdotter, a biological modeller, and also gave a seminar on his research. Whilst at SLU Nigel also caught up with Prof Tomas Roslin. They collaborated on the Dummy Caterpillar’ project which was published the day of Nigel’s Read More…
Tiny bite marks reveal a global pattern in predation
A new study deploys “dummy caterpillars” across the world to reveal predation hotspots – and who is behind them. LINK HERE It is well known that the tropics have many more species than the poles. But do the interactions among species also increase or become stronger nearer the Equator? A new study published in Science Read More…
Farewell to Nicolas
The lab has farewelled Nicolas with a lab dinner at the Red Grapevine after 5 months internship in the lab carrying out ant oxygen limitation and thermolimit research. We have very much appreciated your thoughtfulness and great work over this short time
Gordon Conference: Unifying Ecology Across Scales
Nigel and Sarah are currently in beautiful Biddeford, Maine at the ‘other’ University of New England attending the Gordon Conference: Unifying Ecology Across Scales. We are showing off our ant research for the Future Eaters ARC project, as well as two current publications: Oliver, I., Dorrough, J., Doherty, H., & Andrew, N.R.,. 2016. Additive and Read More…
New lab publication
Oliver, I., Dorrough, J., Doherty, H., Andrew, N.R., 2016. Additive and synergistic effects of land cover, land use and climate on insect biodiversity. Landscape Ecology, 1-17.
Congrats to Behnaz
Behnaz’s first publication from her PhD has been accepted in PeerJ The physiological consequences of varied heat exposure events in adult Myzus persicae: a single prolonged exposure compared to repeated shorter exposures well done!
Zac’s Honours manuscript accepted for publication
in Austral Entomology entitled “Effects of microclimate and species identity on body temperature and thermal tolerance of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Well done Zac!
PhD submissions
Matt and Behnaz have both submitted their PhD’s for examination in the last few weeks – its a huge achievement for them both! Congrats