Srivastava Lab
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The Srivastava Lab thinks about food webs, diversity, space, predation, coexistence, dispersal, conservation, elements, and traits...and we love bromeliads!
UBC Vancouver
Joined October 2014
Goodbye Twitter. You were a good friend over the pandemic, but then it all went south a couple years ago. And now, well I hardly have words for it. I’ve got a new life over at This post will self destruct in one week.
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RT @CIEEICEE: CIEE sponsored workshops at CSEE June 11-14 in Winnipeg are still open for registration including one on GitHub for biologist….
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RT @Ecology_forlife: The group took advantage of the first sunny day in Vancouver. @CIEEICEE @loon_lake @cour10eygrace @NIChardon @HaleyABr….
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…using paraffin wax to coat the trichomes on the submerged portion of the bromeliad leaves. Turns out that bromeliads compete for nutrients with algae, benefiting bacteria. This pushes the ecosystem to be more brown than green. Full details here:
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…while we knew bromeliads benefited from microbes, it wasn’t clear how microbes were affected by bromeliads’ uptake of nutrients. The only way to figure this out was to stop nutrient uptake, and my PhD student Pierre Rogy figured out how….
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We’ve just solved another bromeliad mystery! In previous research, my group and others have shown that some bromeliads collect water between their leaves in order to get nutrients from detritus that microbes and aquatic insects breakdown. But…
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RT @ubcscience: Congratulations to @ZoologyUBC prof Dr. Diane Srivastava (@srivastavalab) and the @cieeicee Living Data Project, winners of….
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RT @HaroldEyster: Excited to see my painting of a #Dickcissel sitting in a hazelnut bush made it on the cover of @EcographyJourna! Read mor….
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Anyone able to offer an online Java course, in English, free to a Ukrainian refugee? Yulia was a hydrologist in Ukraine until she had to flee. She is now cleaning houses to get by as she tries to teach herself Java, but needs a proper course. Please RT.
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RT @HaleyABranch: International Day of Women in Science! . I’m so thrilled that I’ll be presenting my #PhD work at my exit seminar in 5 day….
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Does it not seem extraordinary that someone appointed to point out systematic racism could possibly be criticized for previously pointing out systemic racism?.
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RT @FunEcology: 👇Animal Functional Traits SF👇. 🌷By comparing aquatic fauna in bromeliads from 26 different Neotropical sites, @srivastaval….
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Love data, open science, and working groups?? Join the CIEE-ICEE’s Living Data Project as our UBC based postdoc. Apply now as open deadline until position filled
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RT @SamStraus_Eco: Calling all (Canadian) data custodians! Do you have eco/evo data with a broad temporal or geographic extent? Is your dat….
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Isn’t it time we stopped referring to postdocs as postdoctoral “fellows”. The word fellow has multiple meanings but because one commonly understood meaning is “man”, it cannot be considered a gender neutral term. I suggest “postdoctoral researcher” instead. Fin.
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RT @SamStraus_Eco: Going to #CSEE2022 / #ESA2022 in Montreal and want to learn more about the practical side of data rescue? There’s still….
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RT @CIEEICEE: Ever wonder how best to rescue environmental data? Here we share insights from CIEE-ICEE’s Living Data Project: https://t.co/….
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RT @CIEEICEE: On the anniversary of last year’s heat dome in Western Canada, researchers in a CIEE - @UBCBiodiversity working group refle….
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RT @NicolasMouquet: Nice illustration of the insurance potential of functional diversity by @RegisCereghino @srivastavalab and collegues fr….
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