Michael Fox is a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research interests revolve around the interactions between oceanography and coral reef ecology. He recently published a paper highlighting a new method for quantifying heterotrophic nutrition in reef-building corals, which revealed that coral diets might be more variable than we thought.
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In this Insight, Dr. Kielland of the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) discusses his paper “Warm and out of breath: thermal phenotypical plasticity in oxygen supply,” the challenges associated with developing the methods used in the paper, and how his research can be interpreted in the context of increasing temperatures.
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Marcos Fernández‐Martínez is a FWO post-doc at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). In this Insight, he talks about his recent paper looking at how moss characteristics change depending on their evolutionary history and the climate and water chemistry of where they live.
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In this Insight, Olivia Cope talks about how she got into ecology, long-term research and her recent paper Chemical defense over decadal scales: Ontogenetic allocation trajectories and consequences for fitness in a foundation tree species
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In this insight, Dr. Alan Cohen of the Université de Sherbrooke shares with us the inspiration for, challenges, and messages behind his review article “Are trade-offs really the key drivers of aging and lifespan?”.
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Sergio Rasmann is a researcher at the University of Neuchâtel. In this post, he talks about his recent paper, Plant adaptation to different climates shapes the strengths of chemically mediated tritrophic interactions, and why he became an ecologist.
Continue reading “Sergio Rasmann: changing chemistry”From the 5th of September 2019, Functional Ecology will be running an experiment looking at the effects of single-blind vs double-blind review In this post, Chuck Fox, Executive Editor for Functional Ecology, explains why.
by Chuck Fox, Executive Editor of Functional Ecology
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For their recent paper, 29 researchers came together to look at Geographic scale and disturbance influence intraspecific trait variability in leaves and roots of North American understory plants (Kumordzi, BB, Aubin, I, Cardou, F, et al. Funct Ecol. 2019; 00: 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13402)
In this Insight, Alison Munson talks about why they did it, what they learned and the challenges involved in bringing together multiple research teams for a continental-scale project.
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Dr. Erin L. Sauer is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in the Forest and Wildlife Ecology Department. Her research focuses on understanding how environmental pressures and animal behaviour shape host-parasite interactions, and she recently published a paper showing that behavioural fever reduces ranaviral infection in toads
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Dr. Susana Clusella-Trullas is an Associate Professor of Physiological Ecology in the Department of Botany and Zoology and core team member of the Centre for Invasion Biology at Stellenbosch University. Dr. Clusella-Trullas describes for us her experience at the “Species on the Move” conference in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
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