The Kwit Lab

PictureDr. Charlie Kwit
Dr. Charlie Kwit's Wildlife, Habitat and Interactions Lab in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department and the Forestry, Fisheries, and Widlife Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UTK

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The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.




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Myrmecochory blog entry

PictureBloodroot seed with elaiosome. Credit: Cotinis.
In Defense of Plants Myrmecochory! blog entry. Provides a short summary of myrmecochory, elaiosomes, the benefits of the mutualism for ants and plants, and touches a tiny bit on spatial distribution of plants in relation to nests and the microbial aspects of this mutualism - another topic studied by members of the Kwit Lab at UTK.



The herbarium at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville (TENN)

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TENN houses over 600,000 plant specimens and is the third largest herbarium in the southeastern US!




                                                                                                                      (Pressed specimen of Amaranthus albus. Photo credit: TENN.)