This blog post is provided by Kurt Trzcinski and Andrea Norris and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity-nesting vertebrates”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Featured image of a female downy woodpecker by Andrea Norris. In 1995, Prof. Kathy Martin and a handful of students launched a study to examine the effects … Continue reading Woodpeckers and other excavators build a legacy of diversity