Check out our new publication on tropical forest land use change, focusing on oil palm and selective logging in Malaysian Borneo! It just came out in Science and is covered in The Conversation. I m…

Benjamin Blonder

12.03.2025

New paper: A comprehensive illustrated protocol for clearing, mounting, and imaging leaf venation networks – Macrosystems Ecology Laboratory

The lab has a new protocol manuscript out in Applications in Plant Sciences. For the last several years we have been doing extensive leaf clearing and imaging work for studies on venation. While th…

Benjamin Blonder

09.07.2025

New paper: Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales – Macrosystems Ecology Laboratory

(guest post on a new Nature Plants paper by lead author/past postdoc Dr. Ilaine Matos) Over the past 400 million years, the leaves of vascular plants have diversified to generate an astonishing var…

Benjamin Blonder

25.09.2025

New paper in Oikos: Relaxation of the leaf economics spectrum within and across quaking aspen genotypes – Macrosystems Ecology Laboratory

(guest post by lead author Dr. Jolanta Rieksta, who did this project as her masters’ thesis) A fundamental question in trait-based ecology is whether variation within species across environme…

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New paper in Science: Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function, whereas logging changes structure – Macrosystems Ecology Laboratory

New paper: A comprehensive illustrated protocol for clearing, mounting, and imaging leaf venation networks – Macrosystems Ecology Laboratory

New paper: Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales – Macrosystems Ecology Laboratory

New paper in Oikos: Relaxation of the leaf economics spectrum within and across quaking aspen genotypes – Macrosystems Ecology Laboratory

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