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.
Dr Francisco Javier Zamora‐Camacho talks about his new paper, Failed predator attacks have detrimental effects on antipredatory capabilities through developmental plasticity in Pelobates cultripes toads, what prompted him to do this research and how this work differs from other work in this area.
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In our latest Insight, Dr Fangyue Zhang (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences,) talks about her new paper, Differential responses of ecosystem carbon flux components to experimental precipitation gradient in an alpine meadow, why this work is important and what got her in to ecology. Continue reading “Going to extremes”
In our latest Insight, Dr Aarón González Castro (Spanish National Research Council) talks about a recent paper he has co-authored with Dr Suann Yang (State University of New York at Geneseo) and Dr Tomás A. Carlo (Pennsylvania State University) on “How does avian seed dispersal shape the structure of early successional tropical forests?”, his research and the best (and worst!) things about being an ecologist. … Continue reading Fruit-eating birds can leave their signature on regenerating tropical plant communities
In our latest Insight, Sébastien M. J. Portalier talks about his recent paper on The mechanics of predator–prey interactions: First principles of physics predict predator–prey size ratios, his research and the best (and worst!) things about being an ecologist.
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In our latest Insight, Devin De Zwaan talks about his latest paper, Variation in offspring development is driven more by weather and maternal condition than predation risk, what dictates when a nestling leaves the nest and the best thing about being an ecologist.
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In our latest Insight, Andreas Nord talks about hardworking parents, cooling birds and the dangers of overheating. You can also read his recent Functional Ecology paper here.
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In July, Functional Ecology published the Special Feature: A Mechanistic Understanding of Global Change Ecology. We have invited the authors of the papers to write about their paper. In this post, Julia Koricheva (@korichevalab) author of The relative importance of plant intraspecific diversity in structuring arthropod communities: A meta‐analysis writes about her paper why she wrote it, what she found and where the big gaps are.
Continue reading “Genetic diversity: a poor cousin of species diversity?”
In July, Functional Ecology published the Special Feature: A Mechanistic Understanding of Global Change Ecology. We have invited the authors of the papers to write about their paper. In this post, Carly Stevens writes about her paper Atmospheric nitrogen deposition in terrestrial ecosystems: Its impact on plant communities and consequences across trophic levels: why she wrote it, what she found and where the big gaps are.
