Month: February 2019
Going to extremes
In our latest Insight, Dr Fangyue Zhang (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences,) talks about her new paper, Differential responses of ecosystem carbon flux components to experimental precipitation gradient in an alpine meadow, why this work is important and what got her in to ecology. Continue reading “Going to extremes”
Fruit-eating birds can leave their signature on regenerating tropical plant communities
In our latest Insight, Dr Aarón González Castro (Spanish National Research Council) talks about a recent paper he has co-authored with Dr Suann Yang (State University of New York at Geneseo) and Dr Tomás A. Carlo (Pennsylvania State University) on “How does avian seed dispersal shape the structure of early successional tropical forests?”, his research and the best (and worst!) things about being an ecologist. … Continue reading Fruit-eating birds can leave their signature on regenerating tropical plant communities
First principles of physics predict predator–prey size ratios
In our latest Insight, Sébastien M. J. Portalier talks about his recent paper on The mechanics of predator–prey interactions: First principles of physics predict predator–prey size ratios, his research and the best (and worst!) things about being an ecologist.
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