Author: Damschen Lab

The Damschen Plant Community Ecology Lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is accepting applications for 1-2 Ph.D. student positions that will start in fall 2024. Our lab seeks to understand the impact of local and regional processes on plant community composition and diversity within the context of global change … Continue reading Accepting graduate student applications for fall 2024

Research Manager We seek to hire a Research Manager to work within a long-term landscape fragmentation experiment (SRS Corridor Project) to understand the long-term impacts of habitat connectivity on plant community assembly and diversity. This position will be based full-time at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina. The position involves vegetation and … Continue reading Multiple position openings in SRS Corridor Experiment

Join us for Jeannine Richards's defense seminar on Friday, May 8, 2020 at 11:00 am-12:00 pm central. Jeannine will discuss her PhD work on "Branching out: Epiphyte biodiversity in shade coffee farms." Join via Zoom at: https://zoom.us/j/92498685187

Trait-based ecology: Where are we now? Functional traits, or the characteristics of organisms that serve as proxies for their success and fitness, are gaining popularity in ecological studies. Functional traits are being used to explain the basic ecological mechanisms underlying community assembly, how organisms are responding to global change impacts, and predicting the outcome of … Continue reading Offering grad seminar on trait-based ecology Spring 2020

Lab PI, Ellen Damschen, received the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award for Inclusive Excellence. She is humbled and grateful to be honored in this way. You can read about the award here: https://news.wisc.edu/distinguished-teaching-awards-2018/ And listen to her thoughts on teaching here: https://youtu.be/dNTY63m7Q_o

This summer has been a wonderful chance to work together and celebrate projects coming to fruition. New papers led by Jesse Miller on how different flowering guilds respond to landscape spatial structure and the relationship between plant and consumer richness in the Ozark glades are coming out. Wonderful group of undergraduates in the lab measuring … Continue reading Papers, fieldwork, and more summer fun