Randall has completed his Honours project on species–area relationships for fish communities in freshwater lakes. Tying in with our lab’s previous work on mangrove tree communities, Randall was specifically interested in testing for a flat phase in the species–area relationships for small lake areas. Under a theoretical framework developed in our lab would be interpreted as a niche-structured phase that occurs when immigration is very low. While Randall found evidence of a flat phase in some of his ten datasets, it was not a pervasive phenomenon, which he speculated may be because fish are more effective at dispersing between lakes than we had supposed. Randall will be starting a PhD in the lab in August.