Category: Behind the paper

Behind the paper

Brian Gerber: Sage grouse and site-fidelity: moving beyond the win-stay:lose-switch rule.

Dr. Brian D. Gerber is an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island in the department of Natural Resources Science (Lab Website, Google Scholar, ResearchGate). He focuses on understanding behavioral, population, and community ecology to conserve and manage wild animals. In this insight, Dr. Gerber discusses the background of the paper, “Extreme site fidelity as an optimal strategy in an unpredictable and homogeneous environment” … Continue reading Brian Gerber: Sage grouse and site-fidelity: moving beyond the win-stay:lose-switch rule.

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Manuela Abelho
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Manuela Abelho: fallen leaves and feeding streams

Manuela Abelho
Manuela Abelho

The journey is as important as the destination:  autumn-leaves as the main food source for stream communities

In this Insight, Manuela Abelho discusses her recent paper, Litter movement pathways across terrestrial–aquatic ecosystem boundaries affect litter colonization and decomposition in streams.

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Alex Strauss: disease, diversity and dilution

Dr Alex Strauss  is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Minnesota and winner of the 2018 Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers for his paper, Linking host traits, interactions with competitors and disease: Mechanistic foundations for disease dilution.

In this Insight, he talks about the background behind his paper, digs into disease, dilution and biodiversity, and what he wants to see happen next in this area.

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Insight: Andrew Durso

Andrew Durso

Dr Andrew Durso is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He was recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers for his paper, Stable isotope tracers reveal a trade‐off between reproduction and immunity in a reptile with competing needs

In this Insight, he talks about how he got into ecology and what he’s been working on since then.

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Francois-Xavier Joly: decomposition, detritivores and filling in the gaps.

FXJolyDr Francois-Xavier Joly  is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He was recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers.

 In this Insight, he talks about his shortlisted paper, Litter conversion into detritivore faeces reshuffles the quality control over C and N dynamics during decomposition, as well the best – and worst – parts of being an ecologist.

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Corinne Hertäg
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Corinne Hertäg: sharing the costs – and benefits – of defensive symbionts

Corinne Hertäg

Corinne Hertäg is a PhD student at ETH Zürich. She was recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers.

In this Insight, she talks about her shortlisted paper, Defensive symbionts mediate species coexistence in phytophagous insects

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“The main thing we want to do is more long-term experiments…” New podcast episode with Ken Thompson and Rannveig Jacobsen

New Podcast! Ken Thompson talks to Rannveig Jacobsen (recently shortlisted for the Haldane prize) about the influence of insects on decomposer fungi. You can read all the shortlisted papers here. Continue reading “The main thing we want to do is more long-term experiments…” New podcast episode with Ken Thompson and Rannveig Jacobsen

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Nadescha Zwerschke in the field.
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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

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