Investigative evolutionary ecology

How can over 600 tree species coexist in a single hectare of rain forest?

Why has dioecy evolved over 100 times in flowering plants, but still only accounts for 6% of species?

How do climate, biological and socioeconomic factors such as farmer behaviour and preferences influence plant and animal populations on farmland?

Using a range of techniques from greenhouse experiments, long-term censuses, literature and herbarium research to large-scale data collection and cutting-edge statistical modelling, we address just such a variety of pure and applied questions that are ultimately concerned with population dynamics - how individuals, species and communities (including humans) interact over both ecological and evolutionary time.

Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology
The Ohio State University
318 W 12th Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
USA


queenborough.1@osu.edu

News

April 2013
Andrew defends his Honors thesis... and passes!

March 2013
Andrew Muehleisen (lab undergrad) research is featured on OSU forum website.
Another successful trip to Yasuni, starting a couple of new projects.

January 2013
Exciting BES annual meeting in Birmingham, UK.
A new NatGeo article on Yasuni is out!

November 2012
Paper round-up - recent papers published in Oecologia, BMC Ecology and Journal of Tropical Forest Science.

October 2012
Andrew presents his findings at the OSU Undergrad Research Forum.

September 2012
OSU changes to semesters ... Juan Penagos and Raleigh Ricart start their graduate studies ... hello all 178 Bio 1114 students! 

August 2012
Catch the last afternoon of the CTFS workshop in Seattle, followed by ESA: some great talks and old friends

July 2012
A great trip to my long-term field site in Yasuni, Amazonian Ecuador. Andrew Muehleisen officially joins the lab, and heads south to look at extra-floral nectaries.

May 2012
Tropical Ecology Field course in Panama. 15 students out; 15 students in.

January 2012
Laura Mason joins the lab as a research assistant.

November 2011
Matilda Queenborough joins the lab. It will be a few years before she is collecting data, though...

October 2011
I start at The Ohio State University!

August 2010
Another successful R course in Bangalore, India!

1 June 1020
CNN report on Yasuni

26 April 2010
A special issue of Tropical Conservation Science will synthesis data on the Myristicaceae

7-9 April 2010
BESTEG Early Career Researcher Meeting - fabulous meeting with 45+ delegates, Anne Chao, Owen Lewis & Francis Gilbert

12 Feb 2010
REGISTRATION OPEN FOR BESTEG MEETING 7-9 APRIL 2010

27 Jan 10
I moved to NCEAS, Santa Barbara

22 Jan 10
A paper on the global biodiversity significance of Yasuni, and associated NY Times article

15 Sept 09
I am the new Secretary of the BES Tropical Ecology Group! Thanks to Will Gosling for all his hard work
Note new website address: http:www.britishecologicalsociety.org/tropical

A very successful BES meeting, with a good session in functional traits

My papers on Taxonomic scale of niche partitioning published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B; and breeding systems and altitudinal transects accepted in Journal of Biogeography

23 April 09
A new film about oil exploration in the Amazon: http://www.crudethemovie.com/

23 Jan 09
'Life History and Functional Trait Variation in Tropical Systems' Thematic Topic at the BES Annual Meeting 8-10th Sept 09. Keynote: Ian Wright (Macquarie University)... [more]

9 Jan 09
Breeding systems and seed mass paper accepted in Journal of Ecology!

7 Jan 09
Socio-economics and ecology modelling review accepted by Journal of Applied Ecology

26 Oct 08
Early Career Researcher Tropical Ecology meeting, Manchester University 30-31st March 2009

15 Oct 08
An article on the oil exploration of my field site in Ecuador; Yasuni National Park.
US electoral projections done in a proper statistical fashion!