A paper coauthored by UGA Odum School of Ecology Assistant Professor John Drake with Blaine Griffen of the University of South Carolina was noted in the Research Highlights section of the October 1 issue of the journal Nature. The paper, “Environment, but not migration rate, influences extinction risk in experimental metapopulations,” reported the results of experiments with populations of the zooplankton Daphnia magna. The paper was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B online on Sept. 23, 2009, and will be published in print in December.