Insect diversity @ McGill
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Tag Archives: alpine
Conference round-up
Conferences are a great opportunity to let colleagues know about the work we’re doing, and also to see what research is going on in other labs. They’re a chance to catch up with colleagues that we usually only interact with … Continue reading
High flies: arctic to alpine
It’s a widely known pattern in biology that higher latitudes are similar to higher elevations in many ways – as we go toward the poles or toward mountain summits we see similar changes in life zones, we cross a tree … Continue reading
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Tagged alpine, Bombyliidae, Diptera, ecology, fieldwork, flies, Northern Biodiversity Program, Syrphidae
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