Shoul, Benjamin Robert

Climate change is altering global temperature patterns and triggering phenological shifts,
including advancements in breeding events and changes in growth. Flowering in plants acts as an
indicator for phenological shifts and...

McIntyre, Madison Gina

Organisms inhabiting xeric environments face many challenges to obtain dietary water. Numerous species have evolved unique adaptations to collect, harvest, and condense water from infrequent and unpredictable rainfall. Several...

Müller, Zoë Louisa

The causative agent of the evolution of social aggregation continues to baffle biologists.
Though many hypotheses exist, we continue to overlook species that exhibit sociality in nonvisual and non-auditory ways. These...

Almanzar, Dianny Aalyah

Many marine organisms grow shells or skeletons that are made of calcium carbonate. The
fluorescent dye, calcein, labels calcium carbonate in actively growing shells and has been used to
tag mollusc larvae for studies of...