Dr. Helmus presents at USDA
Dr. Helmus presented the iEcoLab’s work on predicting the spread and impacts of the spotted lanternfly planthopper to the USDA at the Center for Plant…
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Just count species, you will get the rest of biodiversity
OK so we picked a lizard to highlight in this post because it is adorable. This one is the Turnip-Tailed Gecko (Thecadactylus rapicauda) that we…
Spring is here! Time for iEcoLab to do some News cleaning.
Yes! Spring is finally here. The birds are singing, the windows are open, and spotted lanternfly will be soon emerging from their eggs. It has…
Cryptic exotic geckos on Curacao Island, 1 species is actually 3
A new paper by the iEco Lab and led by Dr. Behm in collaboration with Gerard van Buurt (a respected naturalist on Curacao) reports on…
iEcoLab welcomes two new graduate students
This semester, iEcoLab welcomes two new graduate students working with Dr. Behm. Timothy Swartz did his MS at the University of Illinois on the impact of…
Evan presents poster on Spotted Lanternfly Risk-Map application
Evan Zangakis presented a poster at Temple University’s annual undergraduate research symposium on his work scripting a spotted lanternfly risk-of-spread map application. His poster elicited a…
Nick wins best presentation award
Nick Huron, a graduate student with Dr. Helmus, won this year’s best student conservation presentation award at the Annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists…
iEcoLab Researches Spotted Lanternfly
iEcoLab was awarded funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to research the spotted lanternfly invasion. The focus of the research is to model and predict the…
Build it and the invasive species will come
New work by iEcoLab and colleges from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on Carribean reptiles has found that as islands develop, more exotic species are able to establish. Wendy…
Benefits and limitations of three-dimensional printing technology for ecological research
Out preprint, Benefits and limitations of three-dimensional printing technology for ecological research, has been published in BMC Ecology. Led by Dr. Behm, the paper reviews…