Christopher Dutton

22 Aug

Replacing the bulkhead on one of our trusted field vehicles, a 1988 Land Rover Defender, 300TDI. 🧐👌

12 Aug

Everglades. Squint and you can see our...🤖🐰🏹🐍

@gibbological.bsky.social

8 Aug

August 2004: International Police oversight in Iraq. August 2026: 22 yrs later at 50 years old, running a microbiome lab at a UF. Nothing in the first photo predicted the second. Don't be afraid to follow your interests as they may evolve... and as you grow.

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24 July

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14 July

Dinner and movie night at camp with our friends. Hilarious watching #TheSheepDetectives with our local friends who actually have sheep.

12 July

Sorry girls, now is not a good time to swing...let's go sit by the fire.

12 July

Bird eating snake

11 July

Summer camp for our daughters at our research camp in Kenya... washing clothes by hand is a big part of the experience. 💪

10 July

Wondering... if the dwarf mongooses are trying to tell me that there is a 🐍 outside the tent?

10 July

A little excitement this afternoon when a hippo came out of nowhere, between myself and my kids, as I was fixing our remote telemetry system.

8 July

Baboons can read maps!

6 July

Beautiful sunset tonight.

1 July

Everything is going great. 👍

30 June

Couldn't clear the overhang without a little extra weight! 💪😂

29 June

Sometimes...it just takes a little longer to get where you are going ...

28 June

This is why we hire Maasai to help. They can spot the hippo moving in the bush much further than we can see.

25 June

First breakdown of the trip!

23 June

Summer camp for the kids... helping collect gas flux measurements in the bush of Kenya. 🙏👍

21 June

Turns out...our Kenyan nanny is an excellent hair dresser as well.

21 June

21 June

Made in the USA, Made Stronger in Kenya. 💪

Well, that didn't take long, to break the soil corer. 💪

Siafu ants always move when it rains...gotta be careful walking around camp...

One got me!

The rain is coming...and the wildebeest will follow....

Oh yeah. Heavy rains. Here we are. An African clawed frog just arrived at camp, and we're 1km from the river....

Zebra crossing upstream, one was taken...and these big boys started moving upstream.

Ah...hello old friend..I've missed you...

Within five minutes of the giraffe pooping, the dung beetles were already working thru it...

17 June

Always great to be back in the Mara

1 June

I'm a Dutton. The other half of my family is Franklin, as in Ben. @paramountpictures.bsky.social drops three hit shows about my "dynasty" and suddenly Google emails me every 20 minutes about suspicious logins. Friends, I run a microbiome lab. There is no ranch. I promise. If there was, I'd invite u

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31 May

Cool job alert! www.usajobs.gov/job/870869600

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19 Apr

onlinelibrary.wiley.comMulti‐Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests: A Mammal Interactions Hub in a Single Tree SpeciesWe documented arboreal, multi-species mammal latrines in montane cloud forests of Costa Rica by surveying 169 trees across 29 species. Latrines were found exclusively on Ficus tuerckheimii, with 11 o....

16 Apr

Our weather station was taken out by a controlled burn, right after a flood destroyed our water quality meter. The Mara River ecosystem in Kenya is studying us now.

Two new papers from our group! Dutton & Subalusky labs @ufresearch.bsky.social, Frauendorf lab at @colgate.edu, @cgrupstra.bsky.social lab at #FAU, and Post lab at #Yale on how large wildlife reshape ecosystems 🦛🌊🧵

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More wildlife = more multichannel feeding across detrital and algal pathways. At high input sites, river flow barely affected consumer diets...hippo subsidies may buffer the food web against hydrological variation.

Big picture: large animals don't just move nutrients, they move microbes and restructure food webs from the bottom up. As megafauna decline, we're losing ecosystem functions we've barely begun to describe.

doi.orgBioreactors on the Move: How Animals Contribute to Microbial Community Coalescence and Shape Ecosystem FunctionAnimals are moving bioreactors, assimilating microbial taxa from the environment, which then undergo selective filtering in their gut. Animals then deposit this new microbial community back into the ....

In Environmental Microbiology, we argue animals are "mobile bioreactors"...ingesting environmental microbes, transforming them in the gut, and depositing novel communities back into the environment. Case studies from hippos, coral reef fish, and earthworms. doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70291

doi.orgA Gradient of Wildlife Subsidies Alters Riverine Food Web StructureTerrestrial subsidies play a key role in freshwater food web structure and ecosystem function. Animal-mediated subsidies in particular provide high quality resources that shape aquatic food webs. ...

In Freshwater Biology, Frauendorf et al. show wildlife subsidies restructure the Mara River food web. Fish shifted from 2% to 73.5% reliance on wildlife-derived resources along a hippo/wildebeest gradient. doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70208

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11 Mar

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6 Mar

My new commentary in Science recounts the history of stabilization wedges and features the updates to the wedges by Johnson and Staffell. Read the commentary: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Read the Wedge 2026: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

givingday.ufl.eduBiology – WILDS: Water and Wildlife in the Labs of Dutton and Subalusky - Gator Nation Giving DayOur research uncovers how animals and microbes shape the health of ecosystems - from Florida wetlands to African rivers. By supporting the Dutton and Subalusky Labs, you help us train future scientist...

20 Feb

Wow. Truly humbled by the support. Thank you all so much. 🙏

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We did it! Thanks to you, our labs hit the Gator Nation Giving Day challenge and unlocked the extra support for our students. Thank you for standing up and hollering with us today. #AllForTheGators givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/bi...

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20 Feb

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isbscience.orgWill It Stick? How to Tell Whether Probiotics and Prebiotics Will ‘Take’Researchers used computer models to predict whether probiotics will “take” in individual microbiomes and how prebiotics shape gut chemistry.

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For a popular-science summary of our work, see Joe Myxter's excellent writeup on the @isbscience.org website: isbscience.org/news/health/...

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doi.orgMetabolic modeling reveals determinants of prebiotic and probiotic treatment efficacy across multiple human intervention trialsPrebiotic and probiotic interventions can induce therapeutically relevant shifts in the human microbiome, but their effects are variable across individuals. This study shows that metabolic models can ...

Our latest is out today in @plosbiology.org: "Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of prebiotic and probiotic treatment efficacy across multiple human intervention trials" @isbscience.org @uwbioe.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Four hours to go in Gator Nation Giving Day, and we’re just 4 donations away from unlocking a 2,000 dollar challenge gift for our lab. Every gift moves us closer and supports student-driven research Florida to African rivers. givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/bi... #AllForTheGators

Large gifts are amazing, but today we’re also trying to maximize the number of Gators who raise their hands with any-size gift. Chip in for water & wildlife research: givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/bi... #StandUpAndHoller We're high up on the leader board already! givingday.ufl.edu/pages/colleg...