The Kwit Lab
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
The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Photo credit: EEB @ UTK
Photo credit: EEB @ UTK
Myrmecochory blog entry
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 very interesting topic studied by members of the Kwit Lab at UTK.
Myrmecochore seeds with attached elaiosomes (photo credit: Cotinis)
Myrmecochore seeds with attached elaiosomes (photo credit: Cotinis)
The herbarium at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville (TENN)
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.)
(Pressed specimen of Amaranthus albus. Photo credit: TENN.)
