From the 5th of September 2019, Functional Ecology will be running an experiment looking at the effects of single-blind vs double-blind review In this post, Chuck Fox, Executive Editor for Functional Ecology, explains why.
by Chuck Fox, Executive Editor of Functional Ecology
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We’re happy to introduce our newest additions to our editorial board, Anna Doty and Hugo Saiz. This enthusiastic pair will join the crew to lead our blog FunctionalEcologists.com. Anna Doty is an animal physiologist exploring animal responses to human disturbance, and will start in the fall as an Assistant Professor at California State University, Bakersfield. Hugo Saiz is based at the University of Bern, Switzerland, … Continue reading Introducing your new Functional Ecologists blog editors!
For those that asked, here is the reading list from Ken Thompson’s “12 months in (the science of) ecology” talk, from the 2018 British Ecological Society Annual Meeting.
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We are happy to announce the winner of Functional Ecology‘s JBS Haldane Early Career Researcher Award for the best paper in the journal from an early career author. This year, the award was won by Daniel Fitzgerald for his paper, Using trophic structure to reveal patterns of trait‐based community assembly across niche dimensions In this paper, Daniel Fitzgerald and co-authors use stable isotopes to gather … Continue reading Congratulations to Daniel Fitzgerald, winner of the 2017 Haldane Early Career Researcher Award
Going to a symposium usually means days of talks in meeting rooms or conference centres, but Alexandra Townsend, an Early Career Researcher from Queen Mary University of London, recently attended a symposium that was a little more unusual: the Early Career Scientist Symposium run by the Plant Environmental Physiology Group (PEPG).
Continue reading “Plant Physiology with a view: A different kind of gathering”
By Bjorn Robroek
Over the last few months, my life has changed drastically. I left the beautiful mountains of Switzerland behind, exchanging them for the rolling hills of Southwest England when I took up a lectureship in ecology at the University of Southampton. One week into my new position at Southampton, I found myself teaching plant and invertebrate ecology to 50 undergrads in Andalusia, Spain– a fantastic experience that reminded me how broad the field of ecology is. Ecology comes in many different flavours, and ecologists are also a varied group, with different interests, experiences and backgrounds. I am extremely chuffed to launch functionalecologists.com, a blog for the journal Functional Ecology. To understand ecology takes a wide range of approaches, and I hope that this blog will show the many different ways that Functional Ecology can offer different aspects of ecology to ecologists. Continue reading “Welcome, Functional Ecologists!”
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