The low volume of emails in my inbox indicates that summer holidays are approaching– time to think of buying your summer-reads. The financial times may help you make this choice a bit easier. They have compiled a list of science books that they consider worth reading. If you’re heading to the mountains and already thinking of those challenging uphills, check out this podcast by the … Continue reading Tuesday taster: 11/07/2017

Last week, I was at a conference (Trait covariation: structural and functional relationships in plant ecology) organised by the New Phytologist Trust. I liked it very much; I especially liked the versatility of the ecological community in approaching big open ecological questions. I will soon give a more elaborate update about the symposium, but if you cannot wait click here to see the abstract book. … Continue reading Tuesday taster: 04/07/2017

Today’s post is largely focused on sustainability and conservation, but first two papers that caught my eye last week: Functional Ecology published a very interesting paper describing the use of drones to record turtle demography and breeding behaviour. In Nature Ecology & Evolution, Lars Gamfeld and Fabian Roger (University of Göteborg), published a perspective paper that counters current consensus on biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships. A very interesting … Continue reading Tuesday taster: 27/06/2017

It is almost midnight and I am still enjoying the sunlight that enters the windows of my hotel room. I am in Eastern Finland, trying hard to get some sleep (not easy if your body tells you it is not dark enough yet). On my flight in from London, an opinion piece in the New York Times caught my attention and changed my views on … Continue reading Tuesday taster: 20/06/2017

Did you know that bird feather structure relates very nicely to its habitat preference? If you want to know more about this, and how this is phylogenetically determined, read this paper by Péter Pap and colleagues. One of my recent favourites in Functional Ecology is this paper by Grégoire Freschet and Catherine Doumet,  who discuss very neatly which root sampling strategies can better inform about … Continue reading Tuesday Tasters: 13/06/2017