SpaCE: SPATIAL & COMMUNITY ECOLOGY LAB

The MSU SpaCE Lab is committed to fostering an inclusive community.

Contact:
Phoebe Lehmann Zarnetske
Michigan State University
Department of Integrative Biology
288 Farm Lane
East Lansing, MI 48824
plz (at) msu.edu
517-355-7671

Lab News!

Fall 2025

Welcome to new PhD students Jenna Baljunas and Lucas Mansfield!
Welcome to new postdoc Minyoung Lee!
Welcome to our new undergraduate students: Addison Hoddinott, Vivian Smith, Elliot Palmer, Jamie Seoul, Liz Bauer, Olive Graves, Sarah Pecis!

Spring 2025

A Global Meta-Analysis of Passive Experimental Warming Effects on Plant Traits and Community Properties - New paper in Global Change Biology and press release out on Kara and Phoebe's global meta-analysis of warming effects on plant communities!
- onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.70306
- https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/07/some-studies-might-not-paint-full-picture-of-how-plants-respond-to-climate-change

October 2024

Congratulations to Moriah and Kara on their co-first authored Ecology publication, Plant community responses to the individual and interactive effects of warming and herbivory across multiple years! Mark and Phoebe are co-authors.
- https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.4441
- Press: What's bugging you? Long-term impacts of warming and herbivory on plant communities
  - https://www.kbs.msu.edu/2024/10/kbslter-plant-stress-study/
  - https://eeb.msu.edu/news/Long-term-impacts-of-warming-and-insect-herbivory-on-plants.aspx
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report on a Vision for Continental Scale Biology: Research Across Multiple Scales is released! Phoebe is a co-author.
- nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27285/a-vision-for-continental-scale-biology-research-across-multiple-scales

September 2024

Congratulations to Kara on her successful PhD defense!
Welcome to Ann, Ava, and Maddie who are Honors College Professorial Assistant students joining the lab, working on our avian interaction database project!

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