Museum of Zoology
Recent News
Nonlethal Parasites Reduce How Much Their Wild Hosts Eat, Leading to Ecosystem Effects
“While ecosystem ecologists typically think large-scale, our work highlights how the little things that can be unseen, like herbivore parasites, can shape large-scale processes like plant biomass across landscapes,” said professor Aimée Classen
Recap: Early Career Scientists Symposium: Racial Justice and Anti-racist Research in EEB 2022
The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of Michigan presented the 17th Annual Early Career Scientists Symposium: Racial Justice and Anti-Racist Research in EEB in March and April 2022.
Research Feature
A University of Michigan EEB led team documented 15 rare predator-prey interactions in the Amazon rainforest including images and video of a dinner plate-size tarantula dragging a young opossum.
Warning to arachnophobes: The video below is the stuff of nightmares!
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