Aquatic Food Web Ecology Lab, Dalhousie University

Research in the Aquatic Food Web Ecology Lab based at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, focuses on the consequences of biodiversity loss to the functioning and stability of aquatic food webs. All of our work is done in a food web context, which means that its not just the numbers of species that we are interested in, but also the structure of the food webs in which those species are embedded. Most of our work is done in aquatic microcosms, small container ecosystems in which we can assemble food webs and then subject them to various types of disturbance regimes . We also use mathematical models to run "in silico" experiments, otherwise known as computer simulations, to study problems that are too complex or just not possible to conduct in natural systems.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution 2009 Meeting

Yours truly co-chaired the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Meeting this year at Dalhousie (along with Dr. Sina Adl, and a heap of amazing volunteers, whom I would like to thank for all their amazing heroics). For details of this great meeting (which was also held in conjunction with the Genetics Society of Canada) check out the meeting report in Biology Letters.

Experimental Photography II

 

 

 

 
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Experimental Photography

 

 

 
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