Over the past days, my posts have explored different ways ecologists study life: traits, long-term ecological research, meta-analyses, and imaging methods. Each one showed me a different angle on biodiversity. Now, I want to introduce metabarcoding which adds a...
Today’s lesson felt like opening the black box of the ocean’s carbon engine, a world where phytoplankton, glycans, and marine fungi quietly shape the fate of carbon across entire ocean basins. We explored a central debate in marine biogeochemistry: Is most carbon...
Today’s class opened a door into a world where ecology is no longer just about observing nature; it’s about seeing it in ways the human eye never could. Imaging techniques have become the new superpower of functional ecologists, revealing traits, behaviours, and...
From tropical rainforests in southern Nigeria to expanding drylands in the north, ecosystems across Nigeria are undergoing rapid environmental change. Understanding these transformations requires more than short-term studies but decades of ecological observation...
