
Sarah Rheubottom defended her MSc at the University of Alberta in January 2018, on measuring invertebrate herbivory in tundra. Her work was based on the sampling that was coordinated in summer 2015 and to which many HN members contributed. Sarah spent hours on end behind the magnifier glass, looking at leaves of 46 species of tundra plants from 22 sites across the tundra. Sarah’s work contributes a basic understanding of the occurrence and intensity of invertebrate herbivory at different tundra sites, and will help develop a more general protocol to measure invertebrate herbivory in tundra. If you are interested in getting a copy of Sarah’s thesis, please contact her!