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Welcome to the Subalusky Lab at ​the University of Florida

My research program addresses how ecological processes at the population and community level impact ecosystem function. I am particularly interested in the influence of animal movement and behavior on food web structure and ecosystem function. I use both field observations and field and mesocosm experiments, and I employ a range of methodological approaches, from radio telemetry on animals to estimates of whole ecosystem production. I typically work in wetland and river ecosystems and at the interface of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. I am particularly interested in linking fundamental ecological questions with applied conservation and management approaches.

For an overview of what the members of our lab study and how, please check out the following video!

News

May 2023: PhD student Joshua Benjamin was awarded the Exploration Fund Grant by the Explorer's Club, just as heads off to begin his next field season in Kenya. Congratulations Joshua!
April 2023: Our paper estimating the costs of controlling the hippo introduction in Colombia was published in Scientific Reports
April 2023: Congratulations to PhD candidate Joshua Benjamin, who completed his qualifying exams and was awarded a Research Assistantship from the UF Tropical Diversity and Conservation Program!
Feb. 2023: MS student Nicole Yetke successfully defended her thesis on alligator burrows and movements in seasonal wetlands
Jan. 2023: PhD students Joshua Benjamin, Tyler Bowling, and Sarah Johnson won research awards and funding from the UF Biology Graduate Student Association
Dec. 2022: We received funding from the JRS Biodiversity Foundation to investigate and digitize information on aquatic biodiversity in rivers of Lake Victoria Basin
Aug. 2022: Former lab postdoc Therese Frauendorf started her new position as an Assistant Professor at Colgate University
May 2022: We received a Research Tutorial Abroad grant from the UF Center for African Studies to take two undergraduates in the lab, Ethan Lawrence and Liam O'Connor, to Kenya for summer fieldwork
Jan. 2022: The Flanders Research Foundation funded our international working group on Zoogeochemistry: Alchemists of the Wild! Stay tuned for lots of exciting collaborations and workshops to come!
Jan. 2022: Our paper with Andrew Kemp from Tulane University and colleagues on using fecal sterols for conservation was published in Biodiversity and Conservation​
Dec. 2021: Chris Dutton's paper on community coalescence between animal gut microbiomes and environmental microbiomes was published in Nature Scientific Reports
Check out coverage of the paper in Science Magazine!
Nov. 2021: Our paper on animal legacies in river ecosystems was published in Environmental Research Letters
Sept. 2021: Anna Reside joined the lab as a Research Assistant to test the influence of subsidy magnitude on ecosystem stability
Aug. 2021: We received an NSF EAGER award to investigate community coalescence in animal gut microbiome and environmental microbiome communities and its influence on aquatic ecosystem function
May 2021: We received a supplement on our NSF proposal to conduct experiments in our UF STREAMS facility testing the influence of subsidy magnitude on secondary production
Jan. 2021: Katherine Handler, who began working on the Mara Project as a high school student, published a first author paper in Ecosphere on temporal niche partitioning in scavengers in wildebeest carcasses
Jun. 2020: Our new paper on biogeochemical states of hippo pools in the Mara, led by Chris Dutton, was published in Ecosystems
May 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Dutton on being awarded the John Spangler Nicholas Prize for innovative and important dissertation work by Yale University's Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Apr. 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Subalusky on winning the Society for Freshwater Science's 2020 Hynes Award for her paper in PNAS on the effects of mass drownings of wildebeest on nutrient cycling in the Mara River
Feb. 2020: We have moved into our permanent lab and office space in Carr Hall, Rm 517/518.
Dec. 2019: Our new paper on the introduction of hippos into Colombia was published in Oryx
Aug. 2019: The Subalusky Lab officially starts up at the University of Florida!
Aug. 2019: Post-doc Therese Frauendorf joins the Mara Project!
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