This post is part of a series on what goes into getting a PhD around the world. In this post, Zheng Fu talks about getting a PhD in China. Where are you getting your PhD? I recently finished my PhD at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). UCAS consist of more than 100 institutes and I am at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and … Continue reading Getting a PhD in China – Zheng Fu
This post is part of a series on what goes into getting a PhD around the world. In this post, Sara Reverte discusses getting a PhD in Spain
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This post is part of a series on what goes into getting a PhD around the world. In this post, Nicole Ponta discusses getting a PhD in Switzerland. Where are you getting your PhD? I am doing my PhD at ETH Zurich, in the group of Forest Management and Development under the supervision of Dr Claude Garcia. ETH is considered the best university in continental … Continue reading Getting a PhD in Switzerland – Nicole Ponta
This post is part of a series on what goes into getting a PhD around the world. In this post, Ivon Pelliza talks about getting a PhD in Argentina.
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This post is part of a series on what goes into getting a PhD around the world. In this post, Max Mallen-Cooper talks about getting a PhD in Australia. Where are you getting your PhD? I’m doing my PhD in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. It’s one of those departments where … Continue reading Getting a PhD in Australia – Max Mallen-Cooper
Ecologists have been fascinated by the vast diversity of nature for years. Since the first expeditions in the mid-19th century, these tireless explorers have observed, surveyed and collected any individual being in a quest to find any pattern, rule or law that could help to order the indomitable complexity of wilderness. Thus, this prevalent edge between differences and commonalities is at the very heart of any ecological research.
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Not all ecology is done at ground level – in this Insight, Evan Gora, a postdoc at the University of Lousiville, talks about looking at decomposition when the dead wood stays in the canopy.
Gora, EM and JM Lucas. 2019. Dispersal and nutrient limitations of decomposition above the forest floor: evidence from experimental manipulations of epiphytes and macronutrients.
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Functional Ecologists 