“Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Our team explores ecological patterns and processes in human-dominated ecosystems. We conduct basic and use-inspired research through multi-disciplinary collaborations to inform environmental policy, protect and restore wildlands, and enhance human benefits from nature.
Latest News from the Hall Lab
✿ Karina Renteria wins Best Poster Award at the 2020 WAESO STEM Research Conference
We are pleased to announce that our very own Karina Renteria has been honored with the Best Poster Award at the WAESO Annual Conference for Undergraduate STEM research! Karina presented her research on invasive plants in Nepal, tilted "Impacts of invasive plant...
❀ Finishing Ph.D. student Megan Wheeler wins 2020 FWA Distinguished Grad Student Award
Congratulations to ecologist, data scientist, and Ph.D. student Megan Wheeler, who has been honored with the 2020 Distinguished Graduate Student Award from the ASU Faculty Women's Association! We're so proud of you, Megan.
✿ Incoming M.S. student Alexandreana Cocroft awarded ASU Graduate College Interdisciplinary Enrichment Fellowship
We are proud to announce that incoming M.S. student Alexandreana Cocroft has received an Interdisciplinary Enrichment Fellowship from the ASU Graduate College. Alexandreana will join the Hall Lab at ASU and our NSF Macrosystems Biology team this Fall 2020 to...
✿ Luis Gutierrez investigates the influence of families and culture on environmental career pursuits
Congratulations to Luis Gutierrez for successfully defending his Barrett Honors thesis, titled "Ethnic, Familial, and Cultural Barriers Impacting non-White Representation in Environmental Programs." He found that students choice of degree program were unrelated to...
✿ WAESO students present wildlife ecology research posters
Congratulations to WAESO students Isaiah Bing, Rafael Rodriguez Garcia, Daniela Kenney, and Karina Renteria for successfully presenting their posters at the Annual WAESO Research Conference in Tempe, Arizona! Kudos also to mentors extraordinaire, Ph.D. candidate...
Recent papers
2020. Padullés Cubino, J., C. Neill, D.E. Pataki, J.M. Grove, J. Cavender-Bares, K.L. Larson, K. Nelson, * Wheeler, M.L. Avolio, P.M. Groffman, S. E. Hobbie, S.J. Hall, T.L.E. Trammell. Linking yard plant diversity to homeowners’ landscaping priorities across the U.S. Landscape and Urban Planning, 196(103730).
2019. K.L. Larson, E. Corley, *R. Andrade, S.J. Hall, A. York, , D. Childers, P. Coseo, D. Hondula, and S. Meerow. Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services and disservices: an approach to creating and analyzing robust survey scales. Ecology and Society, 24(2):7.
2019. T.L.E. Trammell, D.E. Pataki, C. J. Still, J.R. Ehleringer, M.L. Avolio, N. Bettez, J. Cavender-Bares, P.M. Groffman, J.M. Grove, S.J. Hall, J. Heffernan, S.E. Hobbie, K. L. Larson, J.L. Morse, C. Neill, K. C. Nelson, J. O’Neil-Dunne, W.D. Pearse, R. Roy Chowdhury, M. Steele, M.M. Wheeler. Climate and lawn management interact to control C4 plant distribution in residential lawns across seven U.S. cities. Ecological Applications, 29(4): e01884.
2019. Padullés Cubino, J. Cavender-Bares, S. E. Hobbie, D.E. Pataki, M.L. Avolio, L.E. Darling, K.L. Larson, J. Hall, P.M. Groffman, T.L.E. Trammell, M.K. Steele, J.M. Grove & C. Neill. 2019. Contribution of non-native plants to the phylogenetic homogenization of US yard floras. Ecosphere 10(3): e02638. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2638.
2019. Word, M.L., S.J. Hall, B. Robinson, B. Manneh, A. Beye, and A.J. Cease.Soil-targeted interventions could alleviate locust and grasshopper pressure in West Africa. Science of the Total Environment. Science of the Total Environment, 663: 632-643. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.313
2019. Padullés Cubino, J. Cavender-Bares, S. E. Hobbie, D.E. Pataki, M.L. Avolio, L.E. Darling, K.L. Larson, S.J. Hall, P.M. Groffman, T.L.E. Trammell, M.K. Steele, J.M. Grove& C. Neill. Drivers of plant richness and phylogenetic composition in urban yards at the continental scale. Landscape Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0744-7.
