Sam Bashevkin, a marine ecologist in the Graduate Group in Ecology at UC Davis talks about looking at (mostly) transparent plankton, getting a lift with the Policía Ecológica and accepting imperfect studies.
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In this insight, Dr. Ari Friedlaender, Associate Researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz discusses his latest publication in Functional Ecology “The advantages of diving deep: fin whales quadruple their energy intake when targeting deep krill patches”, and more broadly discusses his research interests and path to becoming an ecologist.
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Carlos Martínez-Núñez, a PhD candidate at the University of Jaen, tells us about his paper “Interacting effects of landscape and management on plant–solitary bee networks in olive orchard”, why this paper is potentially important for policy makers, and why working with others is one of the best things you can do as an ecologist.
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Dr. Kristen Ellis, a postdoctoral researcher at Colorado State University and USGS, tells us about her paper “The importance of functional responses among competing predators for avian nesting success”, how she got involved in ecology, as well as the pros and cons of being an ecologist.
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Dr. Abigail Kimmitt, a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University, tells us about her paper “Migratory strategy explains differences in timing of female reproductive development in seasonally sympatric songbirds”, as well as her current projects and her journey in becoming an ecologist.
Continue reading “Abigail Kimmitt – Seasonal sympatry and timing of reproduction in dark-eyed juncos.”
In this Insight, Benjamin Delory, a Postdoctoral research associate at Leuphana University Lüneburg, talks about his recent paper on when history matters: The overlooked role of priority effects in grassland overyielding
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What controls grazing potential on coral reefs? And how do you measure that? In this Insight, Jan Dajka, a PhD-student at Lancaster Environment Centre, talks about his recent paper on Habitat and fishing control grazing potential on coral reefs, and how open science tools made it happen.
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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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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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