Welcome to BIRCHMOTH
Adam Pepi has joined the BIRCHMOTH group as a Fulbright scholar from this summer. Adam is already experienced in moth research from his work in the Elkinton lab at the University of Massachusetts. Adam has spent his summer in Northern Norway investigating hypothesis related to predation of moth along elevational gradients.
Continental scale travelling waves in winter moth: an evaluation of the evidence.A recent paper claims the existence of one of the most large-scale travelling waves ever recorded for any animal population. In a new paper in Journal of Animal Ecology we address why conceptual and methodological pitfalls may have served to exaggerate or even impose the spatial patterns reported.
Read the paper here.
BIRCHMOTH is a participant in the Nordic Centre of Excellence How to preserve the tundra under climate change (NCoE Tundra). Later this week we’ll meet up with colleagues, reindeer herders, managers and other stakeholders at the NCoE-Tundra stakeholder symposium in Rovaniemi for two days of discussions on tundra ecosystems, climate change and the future of reindeer management under climate change.
Together with our collaborators at NIBIO we have developed a new set of microsatellite markers for the autumnal moth. The technical paper is out today in International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
