ecology

1. June 16, 2020

   U-M ecologists join call to protect scientific diversity during, after pandemic

   A team of researchers, including two U-M ecologists, has called on the international scientific community to support the retention and diversity of early-career scientists during and after the COVID-19 crisis.

2. March 30, 2020

   COVID-19 pandemic disrupts U-M research projects far and wide

   As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, a wide variety of U-M research projects are feeling the effects. Here are just a few of those individual researchers who have been affected.

3. January 21, 2015

   Predators, parasites, pests and the paradox of biological control

   U-M research into competition between predators and parasites could have potential applications for the control of crop pests, especially in organic farming.

4. November 15, 2013

   Mutual benefits: Stressed-out trees boost sugary rewards to ant defenders

   In a paper that appears in the journal PLOS Biology, University of Michigan ecologist Elizabeth Pringle and her colleagues identify a clear-cut case of a stress-strengthened ant-tree mutualism and suggest a possible mechanism underlying it, one based on interspecies carbon exchange.