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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Dr 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 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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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
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
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”
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.
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
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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In this Insight, Frédéric Angelier talks about his recent paper, Is telomere length a molecular marker of individual quality? Insights from a long‐lived bird, why looking at telomeres might be important for conservation efforts and what got him into ecology.
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