Category: Behind the Special Feature

Behind the Special Feature, Podcast transcripts

The Mechanisms and Consequences of Infection-Induced Phenotypes: Podcast transcript

In this podcast for Functional Ecology, Assistant Editor, Frank Harris, sits down with Lauren Nadler and Sandra Binning—two of the four guest editors (also Shelley Adamo & Dana Hawley)—to discuss the recently published cross-journal (with Journal of Animal Ecology) Special Feature titled, The Mechanisms and Consequences of Infection-Induced Phenotypes. This special feature highlights recent insights into the ways parasites alter host phenotypes across a range … Continue reading The Mechanisms and Consequences of Infection-Induced Phenotypes: Podcast transcript

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Mechanisms and consequences of infection-induced phenotypes: A Functional Ecology and Journal of Animal Ecology cross-journal special feature

In this post, Functional Ecology and Journal of Animal Ecology showcases each article that can be found in our cross-journal special feature on Mechanisms and consequences of infection-induced phenotypes. This collection of studies brings together biologists working on a wide range of host-parasite systems and topics—from molecular biology and animal behaviour to comparative physiology and community ecology—to synthesize our current state of understanding of host-parasite … Continue reading Mechanisms and consequences of infection-induced phenotypes: A Functional Ecology and Journal of Animal Ecology cross-journal special feature

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Pedro Jaureguiberry: Plants from regions with different fire histories respond to fire and burn differently

In this new post Pedro Jaureguiberry—Adjunct Researcher at IMBIV (CONICET-UNC)—Argentina, presents his last work ‘A three-dimensional approach to general plant fire syndromes’. He highlights the importance of effect traits for fire ecology, hypothesizes plant traits based on regional fire history, and shows his interest in the connections between humans and nature.  Una versión en Español de esta publicación está disponible aquí! About the paper Fire … Continue reading Pedro Jaureguiberry: Plants from regions with different fire histories respond to fire and burn differently

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Pedro Jaureguiberry: Las plantas de regiones con diferentes historias de incendios responden al fuego y se queman de manera diferente

En este nuevo post Pedro Jaureguiberry—Investigador Adjunto del IMBIV (CONICET-UNC), Argentina—presenta su último trabajo ‘A three-dimensional approach to general plant fire syndromes’. Aquí destaca la importancia de considerar rasgos funcionales de efecto en ecología del fuego, hipotetiza qué rasgos tendrá la vegetación en función de la historia regional de incendios y muestra su interés por la conexión entre el ser humano y la naturaleza. An … Continue reading Pedro Jaureguiberry: Las plantas de regiones con diferentes historias de incendios responden al fuego y se queman de manera diferente

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Animal Functional Traits: A Functional Ecology Special Focus

In this post, Functional Ecology provides an introduction to each article that can be found in our Animal Functional Traits Special Focus. This collection of studies shows how precise measurements of morphological or physiological traits can increase mechanistic understanding of community assembly across trophic levels, particularly of the mechanisms underpinning large-scale biodiversity patterns. Further, a clearer picture is emerging of systematic animal responses to environmental … Continue reading Animal Functional Traits: A Functional Ecology Special Focus

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Pablo García-Palacios & Ji Chen: Emerging relationships among soil microbes, carbon dynamics and climate change

In this new post, Pablo García-Palacios, from the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Spain, and Ji Chen from Aarhus University, Denmark, who both serve as Associate Editors for Functional Ecology, present the Special Feature ‘Emerging relationships among soil microbes, carbon dynamics and climate change’. They talk about how they conceived the Special Feature, how they selected authors and topics, and how they coordinated with the contributing … Continue reading Pablo García-Palacios & Ji Chen: Emerging relationships among soil microbes, carbon dynamics and climate change

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