At Virginia Tech, collaborative research leads to a better understanding of species ecology An interdisciplinary research effort sheds light on lemur behavior with the aim of improving conservation strategy and captive rearing outcomes. Scientists + statisticians = discovery. It’s simple math. So says Jiangeng Huang, PhD candidate in statistics at Virginia T ech. And Huang would know; over the past three years, he has collaborated with researcher Brandon Semel, a PhD candidate in fish and wildlife conservation also at Virginia T ech, to explain the ecological function of soil consumption in wild lemur populations. Their combined efforts have revealed a number of biologically important variables representing an expansion of scien- tists’ understanding of lemur behavior. From fiel

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