An Ecological Rule Breaker Shows the Effects of Climate Change on Body Size
The Northern Treeshrew, a small, bushy-tailed mammal native to South and Southeast Asia, defies two of the most widely tested ecological “rules” of body size variation within...
YIBS Postdoc Wins Romer Prize for 3D Modeling of Extinct Animal Joints
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Armita Manafzadeh was presented the Romer Prize by the Society of Vertebrate...
Sappho Gilbert National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Podcast
Ph.D. Candidate at the Yale School of Public Health & YIBS Science Communications Fellow, Sappho Gilbert was recently interviewed on the National Institute of...
Researchers Solve Hundred-Year-Old Botanical Mystery that was Key to the Spread of Plant Life on Land
YSE-led research has discovered the answer to a 100-year-old paleontology mystery — how early plants emerged from their watery habitats to grow on land through changes to...
The History and Challenge of Grassy Biomes
Grasses tend to be undervalued but have influenced the trajectory of human history through their domestication as food staples, as well as natural ecosystems worldwide. YIBS...
Natural Inspiration
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & YIBS Faculty Affiliate, Martha Muñoz, has shown that organisms can influence their own evolution, a lesson she’s...
Plant Study Hints Evolution May be Predictable
Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events — and therefore largely...
