In this Insight, Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun, a researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, talks about her recent paper, How sexual and natural selection shape sexual size dimorphism: evidence from multiple evolutionary scales.
Diego Barneche is a lecturer in marine ecology at the University of Exeter (UK). You can find him on twitter, googlescholar, GitHub and his website. In this Insight, he talks about his new paper Warming increases the cost of growth in a model vertebrate, now published in Functional Ecology About the research How did you come up with the idea for your paper? … Continue reading Warming increases the cost of growth
Matthias Schleuning is a Senior Scientist at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Germany, and an Associate Editor for Functional Ecology. In this post, he talks about a recent panel he took part in at the year’s Macroecology Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In this Insight, Luke Wilde talks about his new paper, varying costs of infection, extreme environments and taking a metabolic lab in to the field.
Specifically, we showed that the effects of an infection can be greatly heightened if the host exists in a consistently stressful environment, and if the investigators use current, relevant metrics of performance and fitness.
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In this Insight, Frédéric Angelier talks about his recent paper, Is telomere length a molecular marker of individual quality? Insights from a long‐lived bird, why looking at telomeres might be important for conservation efforts and what got him into ecology.
Dr Francisco Javier Zamora‐Camacho talks about his new paper, Failed predator attacks have detrimental effects on antipredatory capabilities through developmental plasticity in Pelobates cultripes toads, what prompted him to do this research and how this work differs from other work in this area.
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In our latest Insight, Dr Fangyue Zhang (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences,) talks about her new paper, Differential responses of ecosystem carbon flux components to experimental precipitation gradient in an alpine meadow, why this work is important and what got her in to ecology. Continue reading “Going to extremes”
In our latest Insight, Dr Aarón González Castro (Spanish National Research Council) talks about a recent paper he has co-authored with Dr Suann Yang (State University of New York at Geneseo) and Dr Tomás A. Carlo (Pennsylvania State University) on “How does avian seed dispersal shape the structure of early successional tropical forests?”, his research and the best (and worst!) things about being an ecologist. … Continue reading Fruit-eating birds can leave their signature on regenerating tropical plant communities
In our latest Insight, Sébastien M. J. Portalier talks about his recent paper on The mechanics of predator–prey interactions: First principles of physics predict predator–prey size ratios, his research and the best (and worst!) things about being an ecologist.
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