In this Insight, Yingying Wang, a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, discusses her paper Phylogenetic structure of wildlife assemblages shapes patterns of infectious livestock diseases in Africa – recently shortlisted for the Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers.
In this Insight, Ximeng Li talks about his paper More than iso/anisohydry: Hydroscapes integrate plant water use and drought tolerance traits in 10 eucalypt species from contrasting climates, recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s Haldane Prize. Ximeng recently finished his PhD at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University and has now returned to China, where he hopes to continue his research.
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2021 Update – The paper discussed in this blog by Noémie Pichon is shortlisted for the 2020 Haldane Prize. This blog is also available in French.
Noémie A. Pichon, a PhD student in the Allan Lab, talks about her recent paper Decomposition disentangled: a test of the multiple mechanisms by which nitrogen enrichment alters litter decomposition, the background behind this paper and the next steps in this field.
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Elizabeth Mendoza, a PhD student at UC Irvine in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, discusses with us her paper “What explains vast differences in jumping power within a clade? Diversity, ecology, and evolution of anuran jumping power”, along with her journey into ecology, her current research interests, and hobbies.
In this Insight, Daniel Winkler, a Research Ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Southwest Biological Science Center, discusses his paper Earlier plant growth helps compensate for reduced carbon fixation after 13 years of warming – recently shortlisted for the Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers.
In the latest post in our Hindsight series, Shannon E Currie delves into the history of biologging.
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Casey Hall is a postdoctoral researcher at The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University looking at plant defence against insects in a changing climate. In this Insight, she talks about her erecent paper Elevated atmospheric CO2 suppresses jasmonate and silicon‐based defences without affecting herbivores.
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In our latest Insight, Jennifer Jones, a researcher at Michigan State University talks about her recent paper, Habitat‐specific effects of bark on wood decomposition: Influences of fragmentation, nitrogen concentration and microbial community composition, moving from policy to research and what happens when a tree falls in wood (and across your experiment.)
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Find our podcasts on apple, spotify and stitcher, or your favourite podcast app. “It seems that both groups are picking the flowers when they’re feeding – they’re walking about and you can see them pick flower after flower after flower after flower.” In this podcast, Jurene Kemp talks about her paper, Cryptic petal coloration decreases floral apparency and herbivory in nocturnally closing daisies – recently … Continue reading “Both groups are picking the flowers when they’re feeding – they’re walking about and you can see them pick flower after flower after flower after flower.” Jurene Kemp talks to Ken Thompson in our new podcast!
Joshua Garcia is a third year PhD student in the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University studying rhizosphere microbiomes. In this post, he talks about his recent Perspective paper “Can dynamic network modelling be used to identify adaptive microbiomes?”
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