Dr. Rafał Zwolak, a professor in the Department of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, discusses his paper, “Animal personalities and seed dispersal: A conceptual review”, as well as his favorite research project and his opinions on the best and worst parts about being an ecologist.
This is part of a series of posts from ecologists across the globe on how the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting them and their research. In this post, Lauren Hallett of the University of Oregon discusses how COVID-19 is affecting research and researchers in the US.
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This is part of a series of posts from ecologists across the globe on how the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting them and their research. In this post, Jesús López Angulo discusses how COVID-19 is affecting research and researchers in Spain.
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Simone Messina, a PhD student in the Behavioral Ecology and Ecophysiology Group in the Department of Biology at the University of Antwerp, shares the basis of his recent publication, “Glucocorticoids link forest type to local abundance in tropical birds”, as well as his opinion on the “highs and lows” associated with being an ecologist. What is the background behind your paper? The integrity of tropical … Continue reading Simone Messina: Effects of logging on stress levels of birds in Borneo
Over the next few weeks, we will be posting blogs from ecologists across the globe on how the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting them and their research. In this post, Talita Amado discusses how life under lockdown is affecting researchers and students in Brazil – and how it is affecting her personally.
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Dr. Ana Salgado shares with us the background behind and synopsis of her paper “Narrow oviposition preference of an insect herbivore risks survival under conditions of severe drought”, as well as her experience in becoming an ecologist, her hobbies, and why this project has been her favorite so far during her academic career.
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Over the next few weeks, we will be posting blogs from ecologists across the globe on how the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting them and their research. In this post, David Eldridge of University of New South Wales, Australia, discusses how life under lockdown is affecting him and his colleagues.
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In our latest Insight, Kechang Niu of Nanjing University talks about the importance of individual variation in harsh environments, the background to his latest paper Harsh environmental regimes increase the functional significance of intraspecific variation in plant communities Nanjing University, and his unusual path into ecology.
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Over the next few weeks, we will be posting blogs from ecologists across the globe on how the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting them and their research. In this post, Mehdi Abedi discusses how this is affecting researchers – and students – in Iran.
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Renato Morais, a Ph.D. student at James Cook University in Australia, gives us a ‘behind-the-scenes’ view of his research on the energetic effects of coral mortality, related to his recent publication in Functional Ecology entitled “Severe coral loss shifts energetic dynamics on a coral reef”.
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