Bjorn’s away, so this week’s Tuesday Tasters are from me. Researchers used digital animation to examine how the effectiveness of a lizard’s territorial display varies across ecological environments and conditions (with video abstract!) For anyone interested in public engagement, Sense about Science have published a new (and free) guide- grab Public Engagement: a practical guide here.   (Case study is from medicine, but the principles are … Continue reading Tuesday Tasters: 14/11/17

I am preparing for fieldwork in Sweden, starting from tomorrow. While it will be really cold this time of the year, I just read that after a very hot 2016, also this year is going to enter the top 3 of warmest years ever recorded. The retreating sea ice (a result of climate warming) is threatening not only many natural processes (see the blogs of … Continue reading Tuesday taster: 07/11/2017

Published today in Functional Ecology: a study by Griffiths et al. on the links between traits, demography and species abundance in a predator-prey-resource background a study by Lea et al. describing the use of non-invasive physiological markers to identify the population dynamics in Zebra. And again…consider travelling to ‘Ecology without Borders’ by train. Ecologists need to set the example; one conference paper at the moment … Continue reading Tuesday taster: 31/10/2017

These days, I am tutoring a few first year Biology students. In search of how to do that in the best and most effective way, I found some helpful information here, and here. Most of us at some point learned about the effect of earthworms in soils and ecological processes. A recently accepted paper in Functional Ecology shows that this effect is largest in ecosystems … Continue reading Tuesday taster: 17/10/2017

This week in Functional Ecology, a very interesting paper on how feeding behaviour and diet have been instrumental in shaping waterfowl beak shape . The author, Aaron Olsen, also put together a tutorial on how to create a “backtransform morphospace” in R. Two independent studies, published in Nature, show that mobility in research increases impact. If you want to move to a new lab; what … Continue reading Tuesday taster: 10/10/2017