The Holden Arboretum, kirtland OH

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The Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, OH is one of two campuses including the Cleveland Botanical Garden that make up Holden Forests and Gardens. The Arboretum includes 3,500 acres of woodlands, including 200 acres of cultivated gardens.

Forest entomology lab (uga)

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Dr. Kamal Gandhi's Forest Entomology Lab at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia, Athens.

The Kwit Lab (UTK)

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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 (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)

PicturePressed specimen of Amaranthus albus. Photo credit: TENN.
TENN houses over 600,000 plant specimens and is the third largest herbarium in the southeastern US!