Lab News
January 2026
Congratulations to Andrew MacDougall and the entire team that assembled this important and incredibly important research article. The regions of earth previously classified as the “grassy biome” have always been sketchy - but this paper shows us just how bad it has been! Moreover, by correcting planetary estimates, this paper adjusts grassland coverage to 22.8% of the terrestrial land cover (30.1 million km^2) and increases soil carbon stocks to 155.02 Pg (0–30 cm depth). This paper offers a major advancement in our capacity to map biomes and predict future changes to the biosphere. See the paper here.
November 2025
After seven years of collaboration (!) we have finally published our paper about The African Database of Savanna Protected Areas in the journal Diversity and Distributions. Thanks to all the coauthors for their patience and perseverance. Check out the manuscript here.
August 2025
Welcome to new MSc student Brian Kaelo who is studying cattle grazer interactions in the Maasai Mara in Kenya
Congratulations to Ellen on her paper about differential gene reactions in acacias published in The Plant Journal.
February 2025
We published a paper in Science that addresses the decades long conundrum about grazing succession in the great Serengeti migration.
Here is a companion article to our grazing succession paper (written for the general public) published in The Conversation.