iEcoLab

Welcome to the iEcoLab -- the Integrative Ecology Lab run jointly by Jocelyn Behm and Matthew Helmus at the Center for Biodiversity in the Biology Department at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. The mission of the iEcoLab is to integrate biodiversity science with human ecology to understand contemporary patterns of biodiversity and its functioning within ecosystems. Check out our recent activity on our news page and on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

We are recruiting two PhD students to begin with us in Fall 2023 (Announcement).

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Halfway through Curacao field season

We’re about halfway through our Curacao field season. We’ve been surveying gardens all over the island and have caught plenty of lizards and bugs, and…

Curacao field season begins!

We’re headed out into the field to spend the next seven weeks in Curacao! We’ll be doing biodiversity surveys of gardens on the islands. Be…