iEcoLab - Integrative Ecology Lab at Temple University

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.

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Payton Successfully Defends Her PhD Dissertation

On Monday, Payton Phillips successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled “Understanding the influence of anthropogenic habitat modification on urban animals: case studies of Caribbean lizards…

Applied Math Collaborators featured in SIAM News

Dr. Benjamin Seibold (left) and Jacob Woods (right) examining rose bushes on Temple’s campus for SLF iEcoLab’s collaborators at the Temple University Mathematics Department were…

Sam Defends His Master’s Thesis

Congratulations to iEcoLab’s Sam Owens who successfully defended his Master’s thesis titled “Multiscale Modeling of the Spotted Lanternfly Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) Reveals Enduring Risk…

Urban Development Effects Lizard Dispersal

Payton Phillips and iEcoLab members and collaborators made the cover of Diversity and Distributions with their article titled “Dispersal restriction and facilitation in species with…