Nadescha Zwerschke – a new angle on oyster competition

Nadescha Zwerschke is a benthic ecologist with the British Antarctic Survey. She was recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers. In this Insight, she talks about her shortlisted paper, Competition between co‐occurring invasive and native consumers switches between habitats Oyster vs Oyster In Europe, the native oyster is declining due to overfishing and habitat destruction, effectively extirpating it from intertidal … Continue reading Nadescha Zwerschke – a new angle on oyster competition

British Ecological Society15 May 201922 May 2019Leave a comment

Behind the paper

More to look at on eye size

How does competition influence the evolution of eye size? In this Insight, Shannon Beston discusses her recent paper, Natural selection favours a larger eye in response to increased competition in natural populations of a vertebrate. Continue reading “More to look at on eye size”

British Ecological Society7 May 2019Leave a comment

Behind the paper

How sexual and natural selection influence body size dimorphism between males and females— what processes matter at each evolutionary level.

In this Insight, Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun, a researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, talks about her recent paper, How sexual and natural selection shape sexual size dimorphism: evidence from multiple evolutionary scales.

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British Ecological Society2 May 20194 Comments

Diego hiking in New Zealand (holding a chunk of snow after seeing snow for the first time!)

Behind the paper

Warming increases the cost of growth

Diego Barneche is a lecturer in marine ecology at the University of Exeter (UK). You can find him on twitter, googlescholar, GitHub and his website. In this Insight, he talks about his new paper Warming increases the cost of growth in a model vertebrate, now published in Functional Ecology About the research How did you come up with the idea for your paper? … Continue reading Warming increases the cost of growth

British Ecological Society30 Apr 2019Leave a comment

Journal content

Scientific publishing today: bias, tools, and some thoughts from an associate editor

Matthias Schleuning is a Senior Scientist at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Germany, and an Associate Editor for Functional Ecology. In this post, he talks about a recent panel he took part in at the year’s Macroecology Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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British Ecological Society12 Apr 201918 Apr 2019Leave a comment

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Mountains, mice and the impacts of infection

In this Insight, Luke Wilde talks about his new paper, varying costs of infection, extreme environments and taking a metabolic lab in to the field.

Specifically, we showed that the effects of an infection can be greatly heightened if the host exists in a consistently stressful environment, and if the investigators use current, relevant metrics of performance and fitness.

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British Ecological Society5 Apr 20195 Apr 2019Leave a comment