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The Population and Community Ecology (PACE) Lab is overseen by Dr. Michael J. Dreslik. The four programs of the lab are the Urban Biotic Assessment Program (UBAP), which provides environmental expertise to the Illinois Tollway, the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC) program, the Freshwater Mollusk Ecology and Conservation (FMEC) program, and the Environmental Education Program (EEP).

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The Sauga Squad has been hard at work searching for Massasaugas emerging from their burrows. This project began in 1999 and searches have occurred every spring except in 2020, interrupted by a global pandemic or something. Massasaugas are often difficult to spot given their cryptic coloring and tendency to remain motionless. Graduate student Matthew Parry shared this photo for you to test your eyes at spotting Massasaugas. #FindItFriday #massasauga #rattlesnakes #conservation #endangeredspecies #fieldworkfun ... See MoreSee Less
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Congratulations to INHS PaCE Lab's Sarah Douglass, malacologist for UBAP and lead of the Freshwater Mollusk Ecology and Conservation Program who was awarded a 2024 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chancellor's Staff Excellence Awards! This highly competitive honor was awarded to 16 individuals from across the campus. Way to go, Sarah!publish.illinois.edu/sadouglass/research/ ... See MoreSee Less
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Last week the March-April issue of Wildlife Biology came out, with one of Devin Edmonds' Ornate Box Turtles on the cover!www.wildlifebiology.org/content/marchapril-coverIn case you missed his paper back in Decemberpace.inhs.illinois.edu/2023/12/21/new-paper-analyzing-long-term-data-on-ornate-box-turtle-survival/#turtle #research #longtermdataset ... See MoreSee Less
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PACE Lab News

UBAP leader A Rahlin presents Chicagoland ornithological research

UBAP leader Anastasia Rahlin presented two talks recently. In January Rahlin presented “Oak Masting in the Chicagoland Region” at the Cook County Forest Preserve District – Resource Management talk as part of CCFPD’s Environmental Education program. Rahlin and collaborators have been collecting oak masting data in the Chicagoland region over a seven-year period from 2017-2023. …

Three new species of Mantellid frog from Madagascar

Three new species of frogs from Madagascar were described in a paper co-authored by PACE Lab PhD candidate Devin Edmonds, led by researchers at Zoological Institute at Technische Universitat Braunschweig. The group of frogs, Genus Guibemantis, subgenus Pandanusicola, spend their lives in the Pandanus (screw-pine) trees, which are common in the Andasibe area of Madagascar. …

New publication on Timber Rattlesnake movement

PACeLab PhD Candidate Andrew Jesper co-authored a new paper with his undergrad research advisor Scott Eckert at Principia College. Jesper and Eckert radio-tracked 29 individual Crotalus horridus (13 female, 16 male) in Jersey County, Illinois. On average, males move greater daily distances and occupy larger home ranges than females, particularly during the summer when Timber …