THE PARK LAB
Biodiversity | Ecology | Evolution
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”
—Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973)
Recent News
[2023.06.12] Our paper on the colonial legacy of herbaria is on the cover of Nature Human Behaviour! This was a collaborative effort from herbarium researchers across the world. [see details]
[2023.03.22] Urbanization affects plant reproductive phenology in complex ways, mediated by both temperature and precipitation. Read more about the Complex climate‐mediated effects of urbanization on plant reproductive phenology and frost risk in New Phytologist (open access).
[2022.11.24] AHOI (Artificial Hotspot Occurrence Inventory)! The results of an undergraduate project to identify artificial aggregates of biodiversity occurrences (i.e., 'hotspots') is finally out! We also show that herbarium records provide reliable phenology estimates in the understudied tropics in a new paper in the Journal of Ecology.
[2022.10.04] Our team won the 2022 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! [see details]
[2022.08.01] Lab alumnus Dr. Yingying Xie has joined the faculty of NKU! [see details]
[2022.07.10] In a study led by Dr. Yingying Xie we demonstrate strongly opposing spatial trends in the phenological sensitivities of plants vs their pollinators. See: "The ecological implications of intra- and inter-species variation in phenological sensitivity" in New Phytologist (open access).
A FEW WORDS
ABOUT THE LAB
The Park Lab at Purdue University studies plant biodiversity. We collaborate widely with scientists from across the world examining how global change is affecting natural communities. We are greatly fascinated by the diversity of life, and our work combines experiments, observations, citizen science, big data, artificial intelligence, statistical models, and biological collections to address key hypotheses in ecology and evolution.
