Lab News

Past Lab News

• 2026
  June:
  -Check out a totally student-led article (featuring grads and undergrads from FunEco) that was just published in the Journal of Vegetation Science: High-Severity Fire Selects for “Fast” Traits and Distinct Plant Communities 5 Years After a Mixed-Severity Fire
  – FunEco is part of an ABOR-funded effort to understand Fire in the Sonoran Desert! Learn more here: https://www.azregents.edu/news-releases/abor-approves-regents-grant-strengthen-wildfire-resilience-arizona
  May: Check out a paper featuring FunEco alum Ella Samuel with Rachel Mitchell in Cambridge Prisms: Drylands. Rethinking seed selection based on climate matching during restoration: Geography, soils and climate explain species-specific mortality. https://doi.org/10.1017/dry.2026.10031
  April: – Check out this article in the Arizona Daily Star about Stinknet, ft. Rachel Mitchell
  – Congratulations to Maddie Wallace on passing her qualifying exams!!!
  -Rachel Mitchell nominated for Transformative Mentor in Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity
  -Doan Goolsy wins Young Range Professional Award from Arizona Section of the Society for Range Management!
  -Check out a new paper featuring FunEco student Fern Bromley in Goundwater: Opportunistic Recharge Enhancement in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions
  March: New paper by FunEco member Fern Bromley! Check out Groundwater Dependency and Hydroclimatic Influences on Riparian and Upland Vegetation Productivity, Upper San Pedro, Arizona, United States in Hydrological Processes!
  February: Check out the new publication by Philippa Johnstone (ft. Rachel Mitchell) at Restoration Ecology! Seedballs of varying shapes and additives enhance emergence but not long-term establishment of arid plants
  – January: Doan Goolsby wins Second Place for Undergraduate Oral Presentations at the Society for Range Management Meeting!