Casey Hall is a postdoctoral researcher at The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University looking at plant defence against insects in a changing climate. In this Insight, she talks about her erecent paper Elevated atmospheric CO2 suppresses jasmonate and silicon‐based defences without affecting herbivores.
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In our latest Insight, Jennifer Jones, a researcher at Michigan State University talks about her recent paper, Habitat‐specific effects of bark on wood decomposition: Influences of fragmentation, nitrogen concentration and microbial community composition, moving from policy to research and what happens when a tree falls in wood (and across your experiment.)
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Find our podcasts on apple, spotify and stitcher, or your favourite podcast app. “It seems that both groups are picking the flowers when they’re feeding – they’re walking about and you can see them pick flower after flower after flower after flower.” In this podcast, Jurene Kemp talks about her paper, Cryptic petal coloration decreases floral apparency and herbivory in nocturnally closing daisies – recently … Continue reading “Both groups are picking the flowers when they’re feeding – they’re walking about and you can see them pick flower after flower after flower after flower.” Jurene Kemp talks to Ken Thompson in our new podcast!
Joshua Garcia is a third year PhD student in the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University studying rhizosphere microbiomes. In this post, he talks about his recent Perspective paper “Can dynamic network modelling be used to identify adaptive microbiomes?”
Caren Pauler is currently a Ph.D. student at Agroscope in Zürich and the Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg. Caren will be defending her PhD this July. In this insight, Caren discusses with us her article “Choosy grazers: Influence of plant traits on forage selection by three cattle breeds” and how her interest in ecology was shaped.
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“Breaking down leaves is basically hard work, so if the fungi have the option of an easier life, they take it?” Continue reading “Breaking down leaves is basically hard work, so if the fungi have the option of an easier life, they take it?” Ken Thompson interviews Hal Halvorson in our new podcast
In this Insight, Rafael Dudeque Zenni talks about his recent research looking at how co-occurring invasive species join forces for increased and persistent impact on the ecosystem and why the the Cerrado of Brazil was the perfect place for this experiment.
The Haldane Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Functional Ecology written by an early career author. Today, we are pleased to present the shortlisted papers for this year’s award (from the 2019 volume of Functional Ecology). This year’s shortlisted candidates are: A trait-based framework for understanding predator-prey relationships: trait matching between a specialist snake and its … Continue reading 2019 Haldane Prize Shortlist: Functional Ecology’s Award for Early Career Researchers
Frédéric Dulude-de Broin is a wildlife ecologist interested in understanding how predation risk influences individual life-history decisions, affects population dynamic and shapes ecological communities. Frédéric recently completed a master’s degree on the impact of non-consumptive effects of predation on mountain goat reproduction. He is now starting a PhD at Laval University (Québec, Canada) on the role of predation as a driver of arctic terrestrial biodiversity. Here, he discusses his paper “Predation risk and mountain goat reproduction: Evidence for stress-induced breeding suppression in a wild ungulate.”
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In this Insight, Monique Weemstra, a postdoc at the University of Michigan talks about her latest research looking at the different root strategies of trees and shows how a model approach helps unveil the black box of forests.
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