Updates on temporal community dynamics, and a whole new project scheme.

Things have been quiet on the portal blog lately.

But in the lab and the field, it has been anything but.

Over the past year there have been big changes afoot for the Portal project.  In the summer of 2015, Weecology lab headquarters relocated from Utah State University in small, mountainous Logan to the massive University of Florida campus in subtropical Gainesville. So now we study Arizona’s desert rodents from the mossy groves of the southeast rather than the alpine forests of the Rockies, like true cosmopolitan, ever-curious ecologists.

The Portal project headquarters relocated from Utah to Florida in summer 2015. Leaping Krat photo illustration by Molly Zisk, taken from http://www.ocregister.com

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