The lab has a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) funded for 2025 – join us in Colorado studying alpine plant ecology! More information and application instructions are here.

Benjamin Blonder

11.01.2025

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

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…

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Summer undergraduate research opportunity available – Macrosystems Ecology Laboratory

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

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