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(credit: Simon Haberstroh).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/picture6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture6</image:title><image:caption>Beautiful Vila Viçosa in Portugal, Alentejo (credit: Simon Haberstroh).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/picture5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture5</image:title><image:caption>Cork oaks and gum rockrose under natural drought. The evergreen cork oak trees lost the majority of their leaves. How will this competition play out in the future? (credit: Simon Haberstroh).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/picture4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture4</image:title><image:caption>Sunrise after pre-dawn leaf water potential measurements (credit: Simon Haberstroh).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-08-05T14:18:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/08/16/wei-xue-born-with-a-silver-spoon-how-light-condition-experienced-by-parent-plants-influences-the-response-of-offspring-to-light/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/picture7.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture7</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/picture6-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture6</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/picture5-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture5</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/picture5-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>picture5-1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/picture11.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture11</image:title><image:caption>(Left) Common garden experiment testing soil heterogeneity effects on diversity-productivity relationships at Campus of Taizhou University (credit: Song Gao). (Right) Long-term field experiment testing soil heterogeneity effects on structures and dynamics of a plant community in Inner Mongolia (credit: Wei Xue).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/picture10.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture10</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/picture9.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture9</image:title><image:caption>Wei Xue in a subtropical forest in Jiangxi Province, China (credit: Xue-Dong Li).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/picture8.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture8</image:title><image:caption>The second phase experiment in the greenhouse (credit: Wei Xue).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-08-04T14:18:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/06/16/lara-ferry-research-in-many-languages/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/functional.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Functional</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-08-04T14:13:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/04/07/martha-munoz-vulnerability-of-tropical-anoles-to-environmental-warming/</loc><lastmod>2022-08-04T14:12:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/04/14/a-varangymereg-az-allatvilag-svajci-bicskaja/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/author-photo-1.webp</image:loc><image:title>author-photo</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-08-04T14:11:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/09/03/balint-uveges-toad-poison-is-a-swiss-army-knife-against-multiple-enemies/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/author-photo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Author photo</image:title><image:caption>Bálint Üveges</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fig4_mesocosms_functecologists.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fig4_mesocosms_FunctEcologists</image:title><image:caption>Mesocosms in the experiment. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fig3_adult-toads_functecologists.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fig3_adult Toads_FunctEcologists</image:title><image:caption>Adult toads in amplexus.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fig2_toad-tadpoles_functecologists.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA</image:title><image:caption>Aggregation of toad tadpoles. Photo by Nikolett Ujhegyi. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fig1_graph_functecologists.png</image:loc><image:title>Fig1_graph_FunctEcologists</image:title><image:caption>Both defensive traits (A, B) provide anti-predatory protection, and their expression level increases with increasing predation risk. 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model of the hypothesis we tested.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/mblumstein-quabbin-feb2019.jpg</image:loc><image:title>MBlumstein-Quabbin-Feb2019</image:title><image:caption>Meghan Blumstein collects a root sample from an oak tree in February 2019. 
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</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/noalican_lymantria_dispar_2019-crop.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NOalican_Lymantria_dispar_2019-crop</image:title><image:caption>Lymantria dispar (caterpillar shown here) is one of the most destructive invasive insects in North America. Defoliation by this insect can kill oak trees by draining the trees’ energy reserves. Photo credit: Nathan Oalican.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/abp_field.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ABP_field</image:title><image:caption>Audrey Barker Plotkin selecting study oaks in forests defoliated by Lymantria dispar. Photo credit: Valerie Pasquarella</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-04-12T15:00:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/03/31/sabine-nooten-ant-body-size-mediates-functional-performance-and-species-interactions-in-carrion-decomposer-communities/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/picture-3-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture 3</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-03-29T11:08:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/03/29/javiera-benavente-scaling-of-metabolism-and-excretion-along-a-temperature-gradient/</loc><lastmod>2022-03-28T15:51:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/03/17/yanjun-li-herbivory-increases-the-dominance-of-invasive-alien-species/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/grasshopper-feeding-on-native-plant300-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Grasshopper feeding on native plant300</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-03-24T13:56:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/03/24/tara-lyn-camilleri-parental-sugar-consumption-modifies-offspring-life-history-and-physiology/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/camilleri-featured-image-1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Camilleri Featured Image</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-03-24T13:55:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/03/15/dianye-zhang-nitrogen-induced-changes-in-biodiversity-and-plant-community-composition-affect-soil-respiration-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/daniye-fig-3.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>The fascinating grassland on the eastern Tibetan Plateau (photo by Dianye Zhang).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/dinaye-fig-2.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>The multilevel N-manipulation experiment in a Tibetan alpine steppe, which was established since 2013.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/dianye-fig-1.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Author Dianye Zhang, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-03-21T11:22:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/03/22/bin-wei-external-nitrogen-inputs-inhibit-plant-litter-decomposition-in-an-alpine-steppe/</loc><lastmod>2022-03-18T17:03:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/03/04/fernanda-barros-what-can-plant-life-history-tell-us/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/feature-image.jpg</image:loc><image:title>feature image</image:title><image:caption>Fernanda Barros</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/picture4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture4</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rafa-fig-3.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Fernanda Barros in a pathway she built to have access to the tree canopy.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rafa-fig-2.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Studied TMCF, on a clear day (no fog events). Photo: Rafael S. Oliveira</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rafael-fig-1.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>A cloud event in the TMCF. Photo: Rafael S. Oliveira</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-03-04T12:08:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/03/04/2021-haldane-prize-shortlist-functional-ecologys-award-for-early-career-researchers%ef%bf%bc/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/all-covers-from-2021.png</image:loc><image:title>all covers from 2021</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-03-04T11:43:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/02/18/disaster-ecology-our-experience-as-biologists-in-the-middle-of-a-volcanic-eruption-la-palma-canary-islands-2021/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img-20220107-wa0024.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-20220107-WA0024</image:title><image:caption>Félix Medina near the volcano at Hoya de Tajogaite.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img-20220107-wa0023.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-20220107-WA0023</image:title><image:caption>Félix Medina with an abandoned cat.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img-20220107-wa0021.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-20220107-WA0021</image:title><image:caption>Félix Medina, collecting droppings of feral cats.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img-20220107-wa0022.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-20220107-WA0022</image:title><image:caption>Félix Medina evaluating vegetation damages and herbivory.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img-20220107-wa0020.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-20220107-WA0020</image:title><image:caption>The lava flow reaching the sea.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img-20220107-wa0019.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-20220107-WA0019</image:title><image:caption>Manuel Nogales with the gases protection mask.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img-20220107-wa0018.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-20220107-WA0018</image:title><image:caption>Félix Medina at the volcano.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img-20220107-wa0017.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-20220107-WA0017</image:title><image:caption>Manuel Nogales and Félix Medina at the volcano attending a  
journalist of the Canadian Television, Roberto González.
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wearing their protection equipments.
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Photo credit: Li-ting Zheng.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-03-02T10:48:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/03/10/amy-sweeny-why-is-this-mouse-more-infected-than-others/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/sweeny-fig-2.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>A photo of Amy carrying out wild wood mouse fieldwork. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/sweeny-fig-1.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>A photo of a wild wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus, on a study field site. Credit: Liverpool field team  </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-03-02T10:00:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/03/03/natasha-de-manincor-geographical-floral-scent-variation-depends-on-pollinators-and-plant-species-identity/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/manincor-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>manincor 1</image:title><image:caption>Natasha de Manincor checking the dynamic headspace material during floral scent extraction in the greenhouse (University of Lille, Plateforme Serre, cultures et terrains expérimentaux). (Photo credits: Leslie Faucher)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/manincor-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>manincor 3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/manincor-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>manincor 2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/manincor-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>manincor 4</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/manincor-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>manincor 5</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/manincor-6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>manincor 6</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/manincor-7.jpg</image:loc><image:title>manincor 7</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/manincor-8.jpg</image:loc><image:title>manincor 8</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-02-23T14:58:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/03/01/robin-heinen-feeding-from-up-to-bottom-belowground-herbivory-impacts-on-plant-soil-feedbacks/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robin-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Robin 1</image:title><image:caption>Robin Heinen in his favourite office, outside, at a newly established plant chemodiversity field experiment at Dürnast Experimental Station, Freising, Germany.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robin-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Robin 2</image:title><image:caption>One of the herbivore species used in the study, the cabbage moth, feeding on a yarrow plant.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/robin-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Robin 3</image:title><image:caption>All plant mesocosms individually caged, after the caterpillars were introduced.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-02-23T14:45:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/02/24/marina-dacal-can-past-climatic-conditions-influence-soil-microbes-and-functioning-responses-to-present-extreme-climatic-events/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/dacal-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dacal 1</image:title><image:caption>Marina Dacal</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/dacal-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dacal 2</image:title><image:caption>Field climate change experiment. The image on the top shows an air view of the complete plot, whereas the bottom ones provided details of the different climate changes treatments used (warming on the left and the combination of reduced rainfall and combination on the right). Credit: Enrique Valencia.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/dacal-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dacal 3</image:title><image:caption>Laboratory experiment. Microcosms were incubated in a growth chamber under dark conditions for a total of 75 days. The first 15 days the soils were subjected to an extreme drought event to determine the resistance of soil microbes and multifunctionality to such disturbance. Then, soils were rewetted and the resilience was assessed 1, 15, and 60 after rewetting. At each sampling date, soil respiration was measured using a modification of the MicroRespTM protocol, which is a colorimetric technique that uses 96-well detection plates (bottom right). Credit: Marina Dacal</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-02-23T14:32:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/04/23/renato-morais-an-unexpected-phd-project-journey/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/highres_bes_blog_05_paulinenarvaez.jpg</image:loc><image:title>HighRes_BES_Blog_05_PaulineNarvaez</image:title><image:caption>The studied reef has lost most of its coral cover due to two cyclones and two coral bleaching events. Despite some hard and soft coral colonies, most of the reef surface is covered in algal turfs, the favourite food of herbivorous reef fishes. Photo by Renato Morais.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bes_blog_06_renatomorais.jpg</image:loc><image:title>BES_Blog_06_RenatoMorais</image:title><image:caption>The studied reef has lost most of its coral cover due to two cyclones and two coral bleaching events. Despite some hard and soft coral colonies, most of the reef surface is covered in algal turfs, the favourite food of herbivorous reef fishes. Photo by Renato Morais.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bes_blog_05_renatomorais.jpg</image:loc><image:title>BES_Blog_05_RenatoMorais</image:title><image:caption>The reef crest at the studied reef in 2018, with swathes of turf-covered reef matrix where once corals dwelled. Photo by Renato Morais.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bes_blog_04_victorhuertas.jpg</image:loc><image:title>BES_Blog_04_VictorHuertas</image:title><image:caption>A follow-up of this study includes investigating fish associations with reef structure, which is characterised using photogrammetry, structure-from-motion and stereo-video techniques. Photo by Victor Huertas.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bes_blog_03_victorhuertas.jpg</image:loc><image:title>BES_Blog_03_VictorHuertas</image:title><image:caption>Part of the study crew during fieldwork at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Photo by Victor Huertas.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bes_blog_02_victorhuertas.jpg</image:loc><image:title>BES_Blog_02_VictorHuertas</image:title><image:caption>Lizard Island Research Station, in the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia, offers unmatched facilities for coral reef field research, including dedicated dinghies for each research group. Use of these facilities was made possible by a Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation Doctoral Fellowship for the lead author. Photo by Victor Huertas.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bes_blog_01_victorhuertas.jpg</image:loc><image:title>BES_Blog_01_VictorHuertas</image:title><image:caption>The lead author while counting fish underwater. ‘High-tech’ field gadgets used to collect data for this paper include toilet-grade PVC pipes, school pencils and fibreglass measuring tapes. Photo by Victor Huertas.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-02-18T10:29:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/03/timothy-perez-extreme-leaf-temperature-and-heat-tolerance/</loc><lastmod>2022-02-18T10:28:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/02/10/robert-buchkowski-weak-interactions-between-herbivores-and-detritivores-in-an-old-field-ecosystem/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img_20161031_163703026.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20161031_163703026</image:title><image:caption>A large Lumbricus terrestris removed from one of the cages.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/dsc04939-copy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC04939 copy</image:title><image:caption>Earthworm removal device</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/buchkowski_canoe.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Buchkowski_canoe</image:title><image:caption>Robert enjoying canoeing</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/img_0063.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0063</image:title><image:caption>Experimental cage set up</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-02-07T13:45:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/02/02/curtis-lubbe-how-much-do-plants-store-and-why/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lubbe-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lubbe 2</image:title><image:caption>A plant indoors, avoiding social commitments. (c) Curtis Lubbe</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lubbe-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lubbe 1</image:title><image:caption>Curtis Lubbe – tired and in a Canadian prairie.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lubbe-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lubbe 5</image:title><image:caption>Naive speculation of what plants may be doing belowground. (c) Curtis Lubbe</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lubbe-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lubbe 4</image:title><image:caption>An artistic interpretation of plant emotions. (c) Curtis Lubbe</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lubbe-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lubbe 3</image:title><image:caption>Rhizome persistence and lateral spread, in blue. (c) Curtis Lubbe</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-02-02T14:13:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/01/11/nutritional-environment-is-an-important-regulator-of-aggression-in-paper-wasps/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/walton-1.png</image:loc><image:title>walton 1</image:title><image:caption>Lead author Alexander Walton checks a nest box to see if paper wasps have moved in and begun to construct a nest.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/walton-2.png</image:loc><image:title>walton 2</image:title><image:caption>The exposed underside of a paper wasp nest.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/walton-3.png</image:loc><image:title>walton 3</image:title><image:caption>Alexander Walton with paper wasp workers, temporarily individually housed in deli cups.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-01-12T14:08:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/01/13/teresa-rosas-single-traits-are-not-enough-to-predict-tree-growth/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/rosasteresa.jpg</image:loc><image:title>RosasTeresa</image:title><image:caption>Teresa Rosas working in their COVID-19 office</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20150730_143640.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20150730_143640</image:title><image:caption>Sampling the canopy of one of the study beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests. Credit: Carles Batlles</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-01-10T17:01:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2022/01/06/amanda-franklin-reflecting-on-mirror-camouflage/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/franklin-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>franklin 1</image:title><image:caption>A frog and a leaf insect that look likes leaves, and a moth that matches the bark background in colour and pattern (all image Wikimedia Commons).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/franklin-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>franklin 2</image:title><image:caption>A mirror-like appearance can be seen in some beetles, butterfly/moth chrysalises and spiders. (Photo credit, clockwise from top left: Alan Henderson, Nigel Voaden, David Laurencio, Nicky Bay, Rubens Luciano, Andreas Kay)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/franklin-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>franklin 3</image:title><image:caption>Some of the failed attempts at making mirror-like replica beetles.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/franklin-4.png</image:loc><image:title>franklin 4</image:title><image:caption>Matte and mirror-like replica Christmas beetles.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/franklin-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>franklin 5</image:title><image:caption>Beetle replicas with a bird predation attempt (left) indicated by the beak marks across the wings and head and a rodent (right) indicated with the incisor teeth marks in the clay. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-01-05T17:08:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/24/why-is-pink-the-colour-of-virgin-birds/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/galvan-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>galvan 1</image:title><image:caption>Top left: the beautiful chemical structure of porphyrins, here exemplified by coproporphyrin III, consists of a highly conjugated aromatic ring, prone to strongly absorb light and also to breakage. Bottom: the grey feathers of a male great bustard in courtship display reveal the presence of porphyrins. Top right: even after degradation, the porhyrins in these feathers continue exhibiting intense red fluorescence when illuminated with a UV lamp. Photo credits: Ismael Galván.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/galvan-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Galvan 2</image:title><image:caption>A male great bustard displaying at dawn, when ambient light is richest in UV wavelengths, in Extremadura, Spain. The insert photo shows the pink colour of still undegraded porphyrins at the base of body feathers of a captive male bustard. Photo credits: Ismael Galván.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-24T10:20:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/21/hannah-white-looking-at-historical-climate-helps-map-current-ecosystem-stability/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/hannah-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hannah 1</image:title><image:caption>Hannah White</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/hannah-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hannah 2</image:title><image:caption>A typical Irish landscape – agricultural pasture. Photo credit: Jon Yearsley</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-21T11:13:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/22/why-are-some-plants-and-animals-more-colourful-than-others/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/tz0c00432_0006.gif</image:loc><image:title>tz0c00432_0006</image:title><image:caption>Figure from "Structurally Colored Inks from Synthetic Melanin-Based Crosslinked Supraparticles" (Hu et al., 2020) demonstrates how structurally coloured inks can be created by the assembly of nanoparticles composed of synthetic melanin cores with silica shells. This could be scaled up to produce structurally coloured paints, inks and cosmetics.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/tz0c00432_0005.gif</image:loc><image:title>tz0c00432_0005</image:title><image:caption>From "Structurally Colored Inks from Synthetic Melanin-Based Crosslinked Supraparticles"</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ape-g91eae9fee_1920.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ape-g91eae9fee_1920</image:title><image:caption>The striking colouration on male mandrill's faces is a rare example of structural colouration in mammals</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/vegetables-gc6558bb02_1920.jpg</image:loc><image:title>vegetables-gc6558bb02_1920</image:title><image:caption>Fruit and vegetables displaying bright red, oranges and greens from caretinoids and chrolophyll </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/animals-g7b89b96f3_1920.jpg</image:loc><image:title>animals-g7b89b96f3_1920</image:title><image:caption>Horses and other mammals tend to show muted colouration compared to other taxa</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-01-03T08:35:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/14/convergent-optical-illusions-in-colourful-creatures/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/picture5-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture5</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/peacock-spider.jpg</image:loc><image:title>peacock spider</image:title><image:caption>Maratus volans (O. Pickard-Cambridge 1874) Flying Peacock Spider by Robert Whyte www.arachne.org.au
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/moth-eye.jpg</image:loc><image:title>moth eye</image:title><image:caption>Sphinx Moth Eye by Memotions</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/picture1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture1</image:title><image:caption>Figure: Left: normal black bird feather microscope image (top) and feather coated in gold (bottom). The feather appears gold.  Feather is from a lesser melampitta, Melampitta lugubris.  Right: super black bird feather microscope image (top) and feather coated in gold (bottom). The feather still appears black due to light-trapping microstructures. Feather is from a paradise riflebird, Ptiloris paradiseus.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/picture6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture6</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/picture4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture4</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/picture5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture5</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/picture2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/picture3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture3</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-14T15:03:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/13/communicating-your-research/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/shutterstock_398942890.jpg</image:loc><image:title>shutterstock_398942890</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/shutterstock_238384645.jpg</image:loc><image:title>shutterstock_238384645</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/shutterstock_364857908.jpg</image:loc><image:title>shutterstock_364857908</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/blog-workshop-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>blog workshop 3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/blog-workshop-2-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>blog workshop 2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/blog-workshop-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>blog workshop 2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/blog-workshop-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>blog workshop 1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-14T10:48:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/10/when-animals-wear-iridescence/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/iri-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>iri 1</image:title><image:caption>Laura (She/her) and Leslie (He/him) are PhD students of the Stuart-Fox lab</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/iri-1.png</image:loc><image:title>iri 1</image:title><image:caption>All these beautiful beasties... how to know if they wear iridescence for communication? Species from top left to bottom right: ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), peacock spider (Maratus hortorum), fan-throated lizard (Sarada superba), Cairns Birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera euphorion), iridescent Stink Bug (Family Pentatomidae), jewel bug (Family Scutelleridae), nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica),Rainbow Stag Beetle (Phalacrognathus muelleri). </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/iri-3.png</image:loc><image:title>iri 3</image:title><image:caption>Iridescence needs order. These two butterflies are blue because of the nanostructures in the scales of their wings. The first one, with a messy composition of scales, creates an almost constant shade of blue. The second one, with a careful alignment of scales produces strong iridescence: a collection of angle changing royal blue, sky blue and cyan.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/iri-4.png</image:loc><image:title>iri 4</image:title><image:caption>Animals see the world in different ways because of their diverse visual systems. This can affect how they can see and use iridescent colours.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/iri-5.gif</image:loc><image:title>iri 5</image:title><image:caption>Two animals wear iridescence: Laura (She/her) and Leslie (He/him) are PhD students of the Stuart-Fox lab. Laura is desperately curious about the existence of beautiful shiny things in nature. How organisms have evolved super clever optics tricks to filter, twist, and reflect light to their advantage. Leslie is permanently fascinated by honey bee brain circuits and their learning. From vision to time sensing he uses biology to investigate the philosophical question of what it is like to be a bee. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-12T12:03:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/07/can-ultrasonic-katydid-choruses-degrade-foraging-habitat-for-wild-bats/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/photo_7.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo_7</image:title><image:caption>James Alvarez (left) and Jonas Llamas (right) running speaker wire across the speaker array. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/photo_6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo_6</image:title><image:caption>Jonas Llamas (left) and Roman Fornesa (right) mounting speaker units in the experimental array. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/photo_5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo_5</image:title><image:caption>Prompted by a rain-soaked first installation attempt, we ran our final experiment in the dry season between January and April 2019. Here, Sarah Woody is hiding from rain, setting up speaker units during this initial test.  </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/photo_4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo_4</image:title><image:caption>Our custom-built speaker array was the result of trial and error. The biggest challenge was scaling up from one, 4-speaker unit to 25, 4-speaker units driven by 25 amplifiers. Here, Dr. Jesse Barber (left), Juliette Rubin (middle) and Lemon Beckham (left) are testing the array design in Idaho, U.S.A. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/photo_3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo_3</image:title><image:caption>To weatherproof the speakers, we mounted them faced down and bounced the ultrasound off metal plates. There was much trial and error to settle on reflector material, size and angle. Here, the lead author is measuring sound levels of reflected ultrasound in the Barber Lab flight room at Boise State University. (photo by Juliette Rubin)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/photo_2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Print</image:title><image:caption>A male ultrasonic-calling meadow katydid (Conocephalus longipennis; top left), and representative aerial-hawking bats recorded flying over our experimental chorus: little bent-winged bat (Miniopterus australis; top right), black-bearded bat (Taphozous melanopogon; bottom left), and the Asian house bat (Scotophilus kuhlii; bottom right). </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/photo_1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo_1</image:title><image:caption>Jodi Sedlock and the experimental rice paddy plots at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, Philippines. (photo by Nina Ingle)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-07T16:05:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/13/mathias-dezetter-physiological-responses-to-increasing-temperature-combine-energy-and-water-balance-in-a-long-lived-snake/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dezetter-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dezetter 1</image:title><image:caption>Mathias Dezetter</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dezetter-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dezetter 2</image:title><image:caption>A female asp viper (Vipera aspis), basking to thermoregulate. Our experimental study unravels that this species may adjust its physiology to mitigate the impacts of warmer temperatures.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dezetter-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dezetter 3</image:title><image:caption>Climatic chambers at the Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CNRS, France). We used this equipment to apply daily thermal cycles during 7 years. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dezetter-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dezetter 4</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dezetter-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dezetter 5</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-06T15:46:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/11/23/trine-bilde-responses-to-thermal-stress-in-a-social-spider/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/trine-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>trine 1</image:title><image:caption>The social spider Stegodyphus sarasinorum in communal attack of prey. Photo: Virginia Settepani.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/trine-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>trine 2</image:title><image:caption>Photo: A nest of the African social spider Stegodyphus
dumicola in Namibia. The nest consists of thick silk
layers with multiple entry holes underneath the nest,
facing the ground. A large capture web extends from
the nest, and a few spiders can be seen active on the
web. The spiders are predominantly inactive during
the day and remain inside the nest, unless they attack
prey intercepted in the web. The spiders move to the
area immediate below the nest to cool down at peak
summer temperatures. They are active in web
maintenance activities at dusk and dawn. (Photo Trine
Bilde).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-06T15:38:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/07/insect-mimicry-more-than-meets-the-eye/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/david-6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>david 6</image:title><image:caption>Left: Field insectary set up in the cloud forest to record the flight of glasswing butterflies and the mimic damselflies. Right: A sinuous flight trajectory of a glasswing butterfly based on the three simultaneous video recordings done in the field insectary. Image by David Outomuro</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/david-2-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>david 2</image:title><image:caption>Two examples of glasswing butterflies from the study area in Colombia. Note the white wing patch. Photo by David Outomuro</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/david-3-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>david 3</image:title><image:caption>Images of the butterfly scales (left) and damselfly wing wax filaments (right) located in the white wing patch. These images were taken using a scanning electron microscope.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/david-5-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>david 5</image:title><image:caption>Damselfly replica with a V-shaped mark on the plasticine body as a result of an attempt of “predation” by a bird. Image by David Outomuro</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/david-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>david 1</image:title><image:caption>One example of a heliconian butterfly depicting the conspicuous warning colourations. Image by David Outomuro</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/figure3-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Figure3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/figure3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Figure3</image:title><image:caption>A male Euthore fasciata, one of the damselflies that presumably mimic glasswing butterflies. Note the large white wing patch.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/david-1.png</image:loc><image:title>david 1</image:title><image:caption>One example of a heliconian butterfly depicting the conspicuous warning colourations. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/david-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>david 2</image:title><image:caption>Two examples of glasswing butterflies from the study area in Colombia. Note the white wing patch. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/david-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>david 3</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-06T11:13:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/09/light-harvesting-of-mesophotic-corals/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/net-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>net 1</image:title><image:caption>Admiring the beauty of a coral. © Netanel Kramer</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/net-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>net 2</image:title><image:caption>Netanel Kramer collecting corals from 45m depth. © Ronen Liberman</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/net-3.png</image:loc><image:title>net 3</image:title><image:caption>Close-up of a Stylophora pistillata colony from shallow (5m) depth. Scale bar is 1mm. © Netanel Kramer</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/net-4.png</image:loc><image:title>net 4</image:title><image:caption>Close-up of a Stylophora pistillata colony from mesophotic (45m) depth. Scale bar is 1mm. © Netanel Kramer</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-01-02T16:59:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/06/vianney-denis-trophic-plasticity-of-corals/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/vianney-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>vianney 1</image:title><image:caption>Coral Reefs In Taiwan | With disctinctive environmental conditions all around the country,   Taiwan offers a natural laboratory to test hypotheses related to the transformation of coral reef ecosystems in the Anthropocene</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/vianney-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>vianney 2</image:title><image:caption>Reef surveys | Benthic communities are examined for their composition, functions and roles. The laboratory investigated reefs from shallow to mesophotic depths and from low- to high- latitudes.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/vianney-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>vianney 3</image:title><image:caption>Vianney DENIS | Looking at tiny coral-associated hydroids (Zanclea spp) at Green Island, Taiwan</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-12-06T09:41:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/12/02/can-cephalopods-see-what-fishes-see/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/colour-countdown-day-2-wen-sung-chung.jpg</image:loc><image:title>COLOUR COUNTDOWN DAY 2 WEN-SUNG CHUNG</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image5.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>~ai-d6c9d2bd-8fca-4496-8c15-2df3257b671b_</image:title><image:caption>High resolution MRI of cephalopod brain reveals many previously unknown brain structure and neural network in response to their visual-motor activities (further reading, see Chung et al 2020 iScience. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.100816).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image4.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>image4</image:title><image:caption>An example of image taken by the polarization vision underwater camera to simulate a cuttlefish vision. Left: luminance intensity; middle: degree of polarisation (the arm stripes showed strong polarisation signal (coded as bright green-yellow colour); right: angle of polarisation (e-vector coded as the horizontal orientation (red) and vertical orientation (cyan)).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image3.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>image3</image:title><image:caption>Colour-blind camouflage of octopus and cuttlefish. See how long will take to find 2 algal octopuses (Abdopus capricornicus, Lizard Island, Australia) and 3 cuttlefishes (Sepia plangon, Moreton Bay, Australia). (photos by Wen-Sung Chung)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/wensung-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>wensung 1</image:title><image:caption>The representatives of the four major cephalopod groups include the living fossil Nautilus (Nautilus pompilius (Osprey Reef, Australia)) and 3 coleoids, cuttlefish (Sepia apama (Whyalla, Australia)), squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana (Moreton Bay, Australia) and octopus (Octopus sinensis (Aodi, Taiwan)) (Photos by Wen-Sung Chung).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/wensung-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>wensung 2</image:title><image:caption>Dynamic colour change of coleoids from the calm (camouflage) pattern (top) to aposematic pattern (bottom). Left: flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi (Moreton Bay, Australia); Right: blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata (Moreton Bay, Australia)). (Photos by Wen-Sung Chung).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-11-29T11:32:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/11/25/silicon-or-symbionts-grasses-use-both-types-of-anti-herbivore-defences/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/zime-3.png</image:loc><image:title>zime 3</image:title><image:caption>
Scanning electron microscope image of the abaxial leaf surface of a tall fescue leaf grown in soil supplied with Si through irrigation. Note solid silica crystals as white structures in the leaf surface; Image courtesy of Ximena Cibils-Stewart taken at the Advanced Materials Characterisation Facility, Western Sydney University. 
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/zime-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>zime 2</image:title><image:caption>Experimental plants were grown in the glasshouse in soil in the absence/presence of: 1) Si supply (through water), 2) endophytes, and 3) cages with and without herbivores in a factorial combination. Image courtesy of Ximena Cibils-Stewart. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/zime-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>zime 1</image:title><image:caption>Ximena and Juan (husband) preparing samples for carbon nitrogen analysis at HIE. Image courtesy of Ximena Cibils-Stewart</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-11-19T15:52:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/11/16/4602/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/luan-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>luan 1</image:title><image:caption>A bird's view of bamboo expansion (lower part is dominated by Moso bamboo) in Miaoshanwu forest park, Zhejiang province </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/luan-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>luan 2</image:title><image:caption>Setting up a litter decomposition experiment in Bamboo expanded forest in Tianbaoyan nature reserve, Fujian </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/luan-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>luan 3</image:title><image:caption>A variety of bamboo products (including the floor) in the exhibition hall of International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan, Beijing, China</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/luan-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>luan 4</image:title><image:caption>Luan (left) and Prof. Shirong Liu (right) visit a cloud forest close to Curitiba in Brazil during 2019 IUFRO XXV congress.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-11-16T11:20:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/11/12/we-welcome-our-new-executive-editor-lara-ferry/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/emw0d9xw_400x400.jpg</image:loc><image:title>EmW0D9xw_400x400</image:title><image:caption>Lara Ferry</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-11-12T13:26:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/09/24/road-to-cop26-global-warming-but-local-heat-exposure/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/dr.-tamir-klein-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dr. Tamir Klein</image:title><image:caption>Dr. Tamir Klein</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/dr.-tamir-klein.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dr. Tamir Klein</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-11-10T11:04:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/11/08/amber-wright-sticky-toes-and-grippy-claws/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image8.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image8</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image7.png</image:loc><image:title>image7</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image6</image:title><image:caption>You would have to pull pretty hard to get this day gecko out of this nice hiding spot! Photo by Laci Gerhart-Barley</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image5</image:title><image:caption>Amber Wright - Photo by Laci Gerhart-Barley</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image4</image:title><image:caption>Brown anole (Anolis sagrei) on dead banana leaves, a rough natural substrate. Photo by Amber Wright</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image3-e1636362444464.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image3</image:title><image:caption>Gold-dust day gecko, Phelsuma laticauda, perching on a smooth laua’e fern leaf. This animal is marked with a paint code on its neck so that we can identify it: Yellow Blue White Orange. The other markings are natural and are unique to every individual! Photo by Amber Wright</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image2</image:title><image:caption>Green anole (Anolis carolinensis) perching on rough palm bark. This animal’s paint mark is YBOW, and you can also barely see a pink Visible Implant Elastomer tag under his arm. Photo by Amber Wright</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image1</image:title><image:caption>Aerial image of experimental enclosures. Photo by Kyle Edwards</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-11-09T05:36:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/10/28/bat-week-quiz/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/43054100684_d6147ec119_b.jpg</image:loc><image:title>43054100684_d6147ec119_b</image:title><image:caption>"Bat Sunset" by ejmc is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/6ceb38dc-4be2-11ea-93ec-7436143f72aa.jpg</image:loc><image:title>_6ceb38dc-4be2-11ea-93ec-7436143f72aa</image:title><image:caption>Fruit bats flying at dusk (Twitter/@chapoisat)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/pallid-bat-e1635408821108.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pallid bat</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-11-03T11:37:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/06/21/rainbow-research-lgbtq2s-indigenous-peoples-people-of-colour/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/figure-6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>figure 6</image:title><image:caption>Me (far right of photograph) conducting an ecological study on butterfly iridescence with my students in Borneo.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/figure-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Figure 5</image:title><image:caption>My partner and I giving a toast at my best-friend’s wedding. Credit: @joeycypphotography</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/figure-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Figure 4</image:title><image:caption>Spreading awareness and understanding through teaching while delivering a workshop on the links between human health, biodiversity conservation, and indigenous rights. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/figure-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Figure 3</image:title><image:caption>Getting cosy with a Grey-headed Flying Fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) at a wildlife-rehabilitation and education centre in Melbourne, Australia.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/figure-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>figure 2</image:title><image:caption>My foster mom, Wah Uji, with the latest addition to our family in front of the hut I called home in 2014-2015. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/figure-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>figure 1</image:title><image:caption>Chilling at the waterfall in front of our home</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-21T14:51:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/06/23/rainbow-research-transgender-pride/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/badger-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>badger 3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/badger.jpg</image:loc><image:title>badger</image:title><image:caption>White, pink and blue are my chosen colours in the Progress Flag - they represent the colours of the transgender pride flag.  Image: Trans Pride Badger by Analice at AW.some Sculptures'.  https://www.facebook.com/AWsomesculptures/about/?ref=page_internal </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20200823_144319.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20200823_144319</image:title><image:caption>Me in my natural habitat - the wild person of the woods!</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/badger-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>badger 2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20200822_144606.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20200822_144606</image:title><image:caption>On a 25-mile trek to Stonehenge, August 2020</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20190427_093636.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20190427_093636</image:title><image:caption>A message for trans people</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-21T14:50:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/10/21/tsipe-aavik-the-role-of-interactions-must-not-be-ignored-during-ecological-restoration/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tsipse-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tsipse 2</image:title><image:caption>United Nations Decade of Restoration will bring along many restoration projects on thousands of hectares. We, researchers, can use restoration frameworks as large-scale experimental set-ups for filling some gaps in fundamental knowledge. The photo has been taken on an alvar grassland in Estonia. Thousands of hectares of alvar grasslands were restored in a large-scale LIFE EU project 'LIFE to Alvars', which serves as a good example of collaboration between researchers and practitioners (Photo: Mart Meriste).   </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tsipse-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tsipse 1</image:title><image:caption>More than 75 % of terrestrial plants associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM fungi). These little microorganisms provide multiple benefits for their host plants, such as improving plant nutrition, and providing resistance to abiotic stress and pathogens. Therefore, the role of AM fungi cannot be ignored during restoration. The photo depicts a plant root with AM fungal vesicles (Photo: Tanel Vahter).  </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tsipse-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tsipse 3</image:title><image:caption>Springtime Laelatu wooded meadow Estonia. These beautiful fairy-tale like landscapes, which offer habitats for numerous species (in Laelatu, 76 vascular plant species were recorded on one square meter), have inspired many Estonian ecologists, including the author, Tsipe Aavik (Photo: Tsipe Aavik).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tsipse-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tsipse 4</image:title><image:caption>Me and my daughter on one of our little hikes with family. The photo has been taken a while ago because now I very rarely happen to be in front of the camera, but am mostly the one behind the camera taking the photos of the moments in our life.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-20T15:18:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/09/23/marco-chiminazzo-your-best-buds-are-worth-protecting-plant-strategies-to-cope-with-fire-in-cerrado-brazil/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/marco-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Marco 2</image:title><image:caption>Cartoon about buds, trichomes (hairs) and fire in savannas. © Marco Chiminazzo</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/marco-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Marco 1</image:title><image:caption>Marco Chiminazzo</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/marco-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Marco 3</image:title><image:caption>Marco sampling savanna environmental conditions in the Cerrado</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/marco-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Marco 4</image:title><image:caption>Moquiniastrum polymorphum resprouting branches after fire </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-20T15:09:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/10/19/updated-animal-ethics-policy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image-2-resized.png</image:loc><image:title>Featured Image -- 4520</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image-2.jpg</image:loc></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-19T13:23:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/10/14/victoria-luizzi-is-it-worth-it-to-smell-nice-allocation-cost-of-plants-floral-fragrance-under-nutrient-stress/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img-7075.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-7075</image:title><image:caption>A. alpina flowering in the greenhouse</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img-6991.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-6991</image:title><image:caption>Young A. alpina plants growing in the greenhouse</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img-6978.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-6978</image:title><image:caption>Victoria and their experimental plants undergoing vernalization</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img-6536.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-6536</image:title><image:caption>Victoria enjoying the plants at Copenhagen Botanical Garden</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img_0097.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0097</image:title><image:caption>Victoria outside their grandmother's house in Nyssa, OR, USA</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img-7125.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-7125</image:title><image:caption>Samples of floral volatiles waiting to be analyzed</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img-7094.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG-7094</image:title><image:caption>Sampling floral volatiles from A. alpina plants </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-14T14:57:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/09/23/george-perry-so-how-far-might-extinct-birds-have-moved-seeds/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/george-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>George 1</image:title><image:caption>An illustration by Keulmans of a pair of Huia, a New Zealand endemic speces that went extinct in the early twentieth century. The species was exceptionally sexually dimorphic, with the female having a long curved beak and the male’s beak being shorter and not curved. This plate was published in Buller’s (1888) A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Image retrieved from Wimikedia Common [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huia_Buller.jpg] and in the public domain.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/george-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>George 2</image:title><image:caption>George Perry conducting research.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-09-17T10:18:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/09/16/xibin-sun-divergent-responses-of-symbiotic-and-asymbiotic-n2-fixation-to-seawater-additions/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/xibin-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Xibin 1</image:title><image:caption>Author Xibin Sun, PhD Candidate, Sun Yat-sen University</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/xibin-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Xibin 2</image:title><image:caption>Corresponding author: Dr. Hao Chen, Associate professor, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-09-13T15:39:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/09/14/vincent-pan-why-are-some-seeds-sticky/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pan-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pan 1</image:title><image:caption>A harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex subdentatus) attempting to dislodge a mucilage anchored seed (Gilia leptantha). Photo by Eric LoPresti. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pan-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pan 2</image:title><image:caption>(A) Ocimum tenuiflorum (Lamiaceae) stained with Lugol's iodine with visible starch granules alongside cellulosic fibrils; (B, C, F) Linum grandiflorum (Linaceae), Lepidium sativum (Brassicaceae), and Salvia coccinea (Lamiaceae) stained with Ruthenium red that shows pectic sugars; (D) Matricaria chamomilla (Asteraceae) stained with methylene blue that shows cellulosic sugars; (E) Dried L. sativum mucilage under phase contrast with branching fibrils; (G) Unstained Salvia Rosmarinus (Lamiaceae). </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pan-3.png</image:loc><image:title>Pan 3</image:title><image:caption>(Left) A contraption for measuring the terminal velocity of seeds. (Right) An early prototype for measuring wet attachment force of mucilage. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pan-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pan 4</image:title><image:caption>Vincent Pan sticking more seeds to more things. Photo by Eric LoPresti. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-09-13T15:04:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/09/09/anushika-herath-animal-personality-drives-individual-dietary-specialisation-across-multiple-dimensions-in-a-mammalian-herbivore/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/herath-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Herath 1</image:title><image:caption>Anushika with her daughter in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, NSW, Australia</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/herath-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Herath 2</image:title><image:caption>Anushika holding a possum in a hessian bag during her field work in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/herath-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Herath 4</image:title><image:caption>Anushika extracting DNA from common brushtail possum faecal samples </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/herath-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Herath 3</image:title><image:caption>Anushika releasing a possum after conducting behavioural tests at 2.30 am in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-09-09T20:20:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/09/07/felicie-dhellemmes-bridging-the-gap-between-animal-personality-and-individual-foraging-specialisation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/lemon-trial-pen.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lemon - Trial Pen</image:title><image:caption>For the duration of the personality tests, sharks are kept in pens that are built directly within their nursery areas. Each shark receives a unique set of external colour-coded tags allowing for visual identification (here, "yellow 1 yellow 2", owing to the presence of a yellow marker on the first and second dorsal). These tags help us work with the sharks in as little of an invasive way as possible: we do not have to pick them up and scan them for internal transmitters in order to determine their identities so experiments can be done "touch free". After the experiments, all external tags are removed before the sharks are released. Photo © Chelle Blais </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/lemon-fin-clip_.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lemon - Fin Clip_</image:title><image:caption>Upon capture each shark is sex determined, tagged and measured by our team. Photo © Chelle Blais </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/lemon-4-c-chelle-blais.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lemon 4 - (c) Chelle Blais</image:title><image:caption>Since 1993, the Bimini Biological Field Station has been capturing juvenile lemon sharks yearly, providing a wealth of information on Bimini's population. Here, a recently captured shark that was tested for personality receives an internal tag which allows researchers to follow its movements for a year. Photo © Chelle Blais </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/lemon-2-c-chelle-blais-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lemon 2 - (c) Chelle Blais (1)</image:title><image:caption>When the tides are highest, predators can get closest to the shore line. In this case, juvenile lemon sharks can be found in big groups along the mangrove shore where they are safest. Photo © Chelle Blais </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/lemonportrait.jpg</image:loc><image:title>LemonPortrait</image:title><image:caption>Mangroves provide protection from predators to the juvenile lemon sharks, but their roots also provide protection to their prey. Lemon sharks face a trade-off between safe (but likely inefficient) mangrove foraging and dangerous off-shore foraging. Photo © Chelle Blais </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/367_felicie.dhellemmes_july2017_chelle.blais_.photography12.jpg</image:loc><image:title>367_Félicie.Dhellemmes_July2017_Chelle.Blais.Photography(12)</image:title><image:caption>Félicie Dhellemmes floating in a shark bucket holding the last datasheet for the year (photo by Chelle Blais)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/fec13874-fig-0001-m-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>fec13874-fig-0001-m</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/fec13874-fig-0001-m.jpg</image:loc><image:title>fec13874-fig-0001-m</image:title><image:caption>Map of the Bimini Islands, The Bahamas (25.736232°N, −79.267353°W) showing the two principal juvenile lemon shark subpopulations, the six capture locations and the locations of fixed acoustic telemetry receivers (image from paper)
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NOAA Fisheries Permit 14122</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ellenlb.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ellen&amp;LB</image:title><image:caption>Ellen Chenoweth uses a prey mapping robot to measure the distribution of hatchery salmon after a release at Hidden Falls Hatchery in Alaska.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-08-23T09:13:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/08/30/natalie-oram-how-prepared-are-legumes-for-climate-change/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/picture1.png</image:loc><image:title>Picture1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-08-23T08:41:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/08/24/curtis-lubbe-right-place-wrong-time-hide-in-the-soil-avoidant-strategies-in-plants/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/blog_planting.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Blog_planting</image:title><image:caption>Planting</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/rimg0683.jpg</image:loc><image:title>RIMG0683</image:title><image:caption>Curtis Lubbe</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-08-23T08:19:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/08/13/join-us-for-a-webinar-on-ecological-resilience/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sf-resilience-image-710x490-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Featured Image -- 4338</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sf-resilience-image-710x490-1-1.jpg</image:loc></image:image><lastmod>2021-08-18T10:34:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/08/18/daniel-kenna-warming-air-temperature-drives-changes-in-bumblebee-flight-performance/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/image_7.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Image_7</image:title><image:caption>Flight mill setup with support stand (photo by Daniel Kenna)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/me_sf.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Me_SF</image:title><image:caption>Daniel Kenna</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/image_6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Image_6</image:title><image:caption>Flight mill setup with border (photo by Daniel Kenna)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/image_3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Silwood Park Campus, July 2020&#13;
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Dan Weill</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-08-18T08:15:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/08/05/thomas-caignard-opposite-phenotypic-and-genetic-patterns-in-pyrenean-oaks/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/caignard-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Caignard 5</image:title><image:caption>Acorn production of a seedling located in the common garden of Toulenne near Bordeaux (photo credit: Julien Parmentier).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/caignard-6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Caignard 6</image:title><image:caption>View on the lake of Fabrèges (Ossau valley in the French Pyrenees) from a 1600 m high oak population.  </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/caignard-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Caignard 1</image:title><image:caption>Jean-Marc Louvet, co-author of the paper, inspecting acorn production of a monitored tree from the French Pyrenees.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/caignard-2.png</image:loc><image:title>Caignard 2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/caignard-3.png</image:loc><image:title>Caignard 3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/caignard-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Caignard 4</image:title><image:caption>Lead author during an acorn collecting campaign (photo credit: Jean-Marc Louvet). 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loss.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-08-05T09:03:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/08/12/sam-van-wassenbergh-aerodynamics-behind-lizards-resistance-to-hurricanes/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/02_video_image_and_3d_model2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>02_video_image_and_3D_model2</image:title><image:caption>Video image of Anolis during a leafblower experiment by Donihue and co-workers (left) together with the 3D surface reconstruction by Shamil Debaere used in the study (right).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/03_aerodynamic_model_results.jpg</image:loc><image:title>03_Aerodynamic_model_results</image:title><image:caption>Results from the aerodynamic modelling (computational fluid dynamics) showing streamlines and pressures on the body of the lizard while grasping onto a cylindrical branch in hurricane-level winds.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/01_samvw.jpg</image:loc><image:title>01_SamVW</image:title><image:caption>Sam van Wassenbergh at the computer at University of Antwerp, Department of Biology.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-07-27T15:10:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/08/10/anina-coetzee-diversity-is-about-sharing-colours/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/obs-callan-cohen.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OBS Callan Cohen</image:title><image:caption>Orange-breasted Sunbird visiting Erica coccinea (credit Callan Cohen)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/img_9103.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_9103</image:title><image:caption>Erica coccinea and Erica mammosa co-occur at the Cape of Good Hope section of Table Mountain National Park and share a pollinator species.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/perdeberg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Perdeberg</image:title><image:caption>Anina with Erica fascicularis in the Kogelberg </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-07-27T14:30:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/07/29/stephanie-schmiege-leaf-morphology-impacts-respiration-in-conifers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/image2_ss_funceco.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Image2_SS_FuncEco</image:title><image:caption>Marveling at the massive size of this Pinus krempfii individual.  P. krempfii is a canopy emergent conifer that is endemic to the tropical forests of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Photo by Kevin Griffin.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/image1_ss_funceco.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Image1_SS_FuncEco</image:title><image:caption>Stephanie Schmiege. Photo by Kevin Griffin.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/image3_ss_funceco.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Image3_SS_FuncEco</image:title><image:caption>Pinus krempfii is one of the only-known flat-leaved pines in the world.  Photo by Stephanie Schmiege.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/image4_ss_funceco.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Image4_SS_FuncEco</image:title><image:caption>Ecophysiologists love the field, but they also love tinkering with equipment.  Here the authors have added a custom leaf chamber attached to a temperature block in order to assess respiration as temperature is slowly increased.  Photo by Stephanie Schmiege.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-07-27T13:28:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/07/27/xavier-morin-finally-seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees-a-model-to-predict-short-term-functioning-and-composition-of-forests/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/20180711_183005.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20180711_183005</image:title><image:caption>Sainte Baume forest (South-Eastern France)
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</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/dsc00283.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC00283</image:title><image:caption>Xavier Morin in the Grand Luberon forest (South-Eastern France)
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/dscn1498.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSCN1498</image:title><image:caption>Combe d’Ire forest (Northern French Alps)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/picxm.jpg</image:loc><image:title>PicXM</image:title><image:caption>Xavier Morin on Vancouver Island</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-07-27T13:11:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/07/08/hao-chen-plants-dont-store-all-trace-elements-equally/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/chen-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Chen 1</image:title><image:caption>Author Hao Chen, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, China</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/chen-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Chen 2</image:title><image:caption>Hao collecting green leaves in a subtropical forest. Photo by Zhenchuan Wang.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-07-07T14:28:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/06/29/rebecca-vandegeer-plant-silicon-defences-against-herbivores-under-drought/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/sem.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SEM</image:title><image:caption>Leaf surface images taken with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) showing silicon crystals in plants treated with silicon (bottom)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20200907_091320.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20200907_091320</image:title><image:caption>Rebecca at work in the glasshouse in Western Sydney</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20190606_151102.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20190606_151102</image:title><image:caption>Weighing day for this hefty caterpillar</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20190523_102337.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20190523_102337</image:title><image:caption>Tall fescue grass plants growing in nutrient solution</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-06-28T16:25:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/03/23/2020-haldane-prize-shortlist-functional-ecologys-award-for-early-career-researchers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/blog-image.jpg</image:loc><image:title>blog image</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-06-24T16:03:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/06/24/ellen-welti-better-with-a-grain-of-salt-sodium-addition-increases-leaf-herbivory-and-fungal-damage-in-grasslands/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_6169.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_6169</image:title><image:caption>Clipping plant biomass at the Niobrara Prairie Reserve in northern Nebraska</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/monarchkonza.jpg</image:loc><image:title>MonarchKonza</image:title><image:caption>A monarch caterpillar in a plot at Konza Prairie (NE Kansas)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/nvp_july_plot-19.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NVP_July_plot (19)</image:title><image:caption>The plots at Niobrara Prairie Reserve</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ellen-setting-up-transect.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ellen Setting up transect</image:title><image:caption>Ellen setting up a transect for the plots</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_2180.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_2180</image:title><image:caption>A Melanoplus bivittatus grasshopper on a thistle at Konza Prairie</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/selmanlivinglab.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SelmanLivingLab</image:title><image:caption>The plots at Selman Living Lab in western Oklahoma (photo by the author)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-06-25T03:25:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/06/17/molly-roberts-a-network-of-threads-and-perspectives-energetic-cost-of-mussel-attachment/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/picture9.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture9</image:title><image:caption>Mussels within their mesh enclosure. (photo credit Laura Newcomb)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/picture10.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture10</image:title><image:caption>To induce different rates of byssus production, mussel byssal threads were cut either every day, once a week, or once at the start of the experiment. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/picture1.png</image:loc><image:title>Picture1</image:title><image:caption>Michelle McCartha counting byssal threads on the floating dock. (Photo credit Katie Harrington)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/picture3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture3</image:title><image:caption>Katie Harrington and Michelle McCartha ready to deploy mesh enclosures and mussels. (photo credit Laura Newcomb)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/picture2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture2</image:title><image:caption>Sam LaFramboise places mussels in mesh enclosures. (Photo credit Laura Newcomb)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/picture4.png</image:loc><image:title>Picture4</image:title><image:caption>Mussels within their mesh enclosure. (photo credit Laura Newcomb)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/picture5.png</image:loc><image:title>Picture5</image:title><image:caption>To induce different rates of byssus production, mussel byssal threads were cut either every day, once a week, or once at the start of the experiment. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/picture6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture6</image:title><image:caption>Molly Roberts, pictured at a mussel farm, estimated the cost of byssus from the experimental data using a Scope For Growth framework. (Photo credit: Hilary Hayford)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-06-10T13:27:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/06/15/lillian-tuttle-coral-reef-predators-must-learn-that-the-cleaner-goby-is-a-friend-not-food/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cleanergoby_pc_lilliantuttle.jpg</image:loc><image:title>CleanerGoby_PC_LillianTuttle</image:title><image:caption>-- Three small cleaner goby (Elacatinus genie) co-inhabit a coral head with sponges and annelids (social feather duster and Christmas tree worms) in The Bahamas. Photo credit: Lillian Tuttle.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/lionfish_pc_robertlamb.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lionfish</image:title><image:caption>A close-up of an invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) in The Bahamas. Photo credit: Robert Lamb.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/fieldwork_pc_lilliantuttle_timpusack_severinvaillancourt.png</image:loc><image:title>Fieldwork_PC_LillianTuttle_TimPusack_SeverinVaillancourt</image:title><image:caption>Study co-authors conducting fieldwork in The Bahamas. Counterclockwise from left is Allison Stringer with a live lionfish (Pterois volitans), Robert Lamb conducting a transect survey, and Lillian Tuttle observing cleaning stations at a coral patch reef. Photo credits: Lillian Tuttle, Tim Pusack, and Severin Vaillancourt, respectively.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/softcoral_pc_lilliantuttle.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>SoftCoral_PC_LillianTuttle</image:title><image:caption>A bar jack (Caranx ruber) swims over a field of soft gorgonian corals near Eleuthera Island in The Bahamas. Photo credit: Lillian Tuttle.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-06-10T10:37:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/06/08/bawan-amin-individual-personality-is-evident-from-just-a-few-weeks-old/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/fe_amin_3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>FE_Amin_3</image:title><image:caption>A group of hinds watch from nearby as their fawns are caught and tagged as part of the annual tagging programme of Phoenix Park's newborn fallow deer fawns. 
Photograph by Crispin Rodwell for the Irish Times</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/fe_amin_2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>FE_Amin_2</image:title><image:caption>UCD students release a newborn fawn after tagging, weighing and measuring it as part of the annual tagging programme of Phoenix Park's newborn fallow deer fawns. 

Photograph by Crispin Rodwell for the Irish Times</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/fe_amin_1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>FE_Amin_1</image:title><image:caption>A newborn fawn lies in long grass in Phoenix Park, prior to being tagged as part of the annual tagging programme of the Park's newborn fallow deer fawns. 

Photograph by Crispin Rodwell for the Irish Times</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bawan-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bawan 2</image:title><image:caption>The release of a fawn at the end of the capture (photo by Crispin Rodwell)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bawan-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bawan 1</image:title><image:caption>Bawan Amin in the field with a telescope tracked on fallow deer</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bawan-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bawan 3</image:title><image:caption>Fawning season in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland  (photo by Crispin Rodwell) </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bawan-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bawan 4</image:title><image:caption>Bawan Amin (left) and his dad (right).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bawan-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bawan 5</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-06-08T09:13:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/05/20/world-bee-day-2021/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/bee-1850116_1920.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bee-1850116_1920</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-20T09:22:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/05/18/audrey-lepogam-everyday-is-winter-for-snow-bunting/</loc><lastmod>2021-05-12T14:58:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/05/11/rainbow-research-contribute-to-our-pride-month-blog-series/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/rainbow-birds.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/progress-flag.jpg</image:loc></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-11T11:09:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/07/01/daniel-hoffman-finding-your-home/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image2-2.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>image2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image7.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Lake Erie cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom surface scums, photo by DH</image:title><image:caption>Lake Erie cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom surface scums, photo by DH</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image6.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Lake Erie cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom surface scums, photo by DH</image:title><image:caption>Lake Erie cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom surface scums, photo by DH</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image5.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Setting up a 96-well plate for qPCR analysis of N cycling gene abundance, photo by Ian Crumrine</image:title><image:caption>Setting up a 96-well plate for qPCR analysis of N cycling gene abundance, photo by Ian Crumrine</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image4.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Filtering for DNA and ambient nutrients in the field (Lake Erie)</image:title><image:caption>Filtering for DNA and ambient nutrients in the field (Lake Erie)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image3.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Lake Erie cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom surface scums, photo by DH</image:title><image:caption>Lake Erie cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom surface scums, photo by DH</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image2.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Filtering for DNA and ambient nutrients in the field (Lake Erie)</image:title><image:caption>Filtering for DNA and ambient nutrients in the field (Lake Erie)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>NH4+ cycling incubation experiments, photo by DH</image:title><image:caption>NH4+ cycling incubation experiments, photo by DH</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T13:33:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/about-us/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/hugo-saiz-sq.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hugo Saiz sq</image:title><image:caption>Hugo Saiz</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/anna-doty-sq.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Anna Doty sq</image:title><image:caption>Anna Doty</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/945e0195-a143-43f7-a02a-9c37105ed7b0.jpg</image:loc><image:title>945E0195-A143-43F7-A02A-9C37105ED7B0</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T12:03:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/02/05/insite-out-in-the-field-for-the-teacomposition-h2o-initiative-number-four/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/iso-tea1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>iso-tea1</image:title><image:caption>Citizen scientist involvement is a key part to TeaComposition H2O.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:40:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/03/27/insite-out-with-richard-beason-into-the-trees-getting-geared-up-for-fieldwork/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/field-kit-small.jpg</image:loc><image:title>field kit small</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/feldwork-fashion-small.jpg</image:loc><image:title>feldwork fashion small</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:39:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/03/29/insite-out-from-peaks-to-pipettes-or-the-bull-in-the-china-shop/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02a_burial_.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Teabag being buried</image:title><image:caption>Teabag being buried</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/01_nioo_.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen (www.nioo.nl)</image:title><image:caption>Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen (www.nioo.nl)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:39:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/06/08/insite-out-with-stacey-trevathan-tackett-goggles-and-gloves/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/stt-2-e1527860635641.jpg</image:loc><image:title>STT - 2</image:title><image:caption>Dr Stella Loke loading DNA samples to be sequenced on the MiSeq for whole genome sequencing.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/stt-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>STT - 1</image:title><image:caption>The February 2018 Phillip Island TeaComposition H2O team. Nicolas (intern from France) and Giuditta (PhD student from Italy) had been in Australia for less than two weeks when I exposed them to the joys of tea research.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:38:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2017/06/13/insiteout-meet-the-researchers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/robert-mills.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Robert Mills</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/stacey_tea_photo-credit-simon-peter-fox.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Stacey_Tea_Photo credit Simon Peter Fox</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/stacey_portrait.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA</image:title><image:caption>OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/stacey_action.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA</image:title><image:caption>Stacey Trevathan-Tackett </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/roberto_portrait.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Roberto_portrait</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/gesche_action.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Gesche_action</image:title><image:caption>Gesche at work.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:38:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2017/06/23/insiteout-of-the-teacomposition-h2o-initiative-number-one/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/teacomph2o_blog1-e1498043263701.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TeaCompH2O_Blog1</image:title><image:caption>Figure 1: (A) Melaleuca Swamps in Warm, Humid Temperate Australia. (B-D) Seagrass, mangrove saltmarsh (blue carbon) wetlands, respectively, in Temperate Australia.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:37:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2017/06/30/insiteout-sampling-for-the-extreme-events-in-mountain-soils-project-1/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/img_0090.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0090</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/img_0086.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0086</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/img_0053.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0053</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:36:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2017/07/07/insiteout-earthworms-on-the-loose-1/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/gersche31.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gersche3</image:title><image:caption>Earthworms hidden below. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/gersche3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gersche3</image:title><image:caption>Earthworms hidden below. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/gersche2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gersche2</image:title><image:caption>A last glimpse before they burrow themselves in. Goodbye little worms, go and geoengineer!</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/gersche1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gersche1</image:title><image:caption>Collected earthworms. Will they like the tundra as much as the boreal forest/mires/agricultural soils?</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:36:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2017/07/28/insiteout-in-the-field-for-the-teacomposition-h2o-initiative-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/teacomph2o_blog2c.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TeaCompH2O_Blog2c</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/teacomph2o_blog2b.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TeaCompH2O_Blog2b</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/teacomph2o_blog2a1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TeaCompH2O_Blog2a</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:35:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2017/09/22/insiteout-of-the-teacomposition-h2o-initiative-number-three/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/teacomph2o_blog3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TeaCompH2O_Blog3</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:34:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2017/10/05/a-royal-pain/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/iso-gw-2c.png</image:loc><image:title>iso - gw - 2c</image:title><image:caption>The exciting part of this root sorting. Lots of roots from drained (left) and re-wetted (right) alder carr. Look, how different the roots are in these ecosystems.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/iso-gw-2b.jpg</image:loc><image:title>iso - gw - 2b</image:title><image:caption>The depressing part of this root sorting. A lot of time and effort went into this sad ‘pile’ of fine root biomass.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/iso-gw-2a.jpg</image:loc><image:title>iso - gw - 2a</image:title><image:caption>How could I forget how true this is? It’s on the back of my PhD thesis!</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:33:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2017/10/09/insiteout-with-rob-mills-making-the-most-of-summer-snow/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/iso-rm-2b.png</image:loc><image:title>Examples of the vegetation in ridges (left) and snowbeds (right).</image:title><image:caption>Examples of the vegetation in ridges (left) and snowbeds (right). </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/iso-rm-2a.png</image:loc><image:title>The alpine landscape at 2500m.</image:title><image:caption>The alpine landscape at 2500m. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:33:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2017/10/11/1293/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rb-blogger-pic-small.jpg</image:loc><image:title>RB blogger pic small</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:32:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2017/10/20/insiteout-with-richard-beason-if-a-tree-falls-in-the-forest-and-no-one-hears-it-it-does-make-a-sound/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fallen-tree.jpg</image:loc><image:title>fallen tree</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:31:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/01/08/insite-out-with-gesche-blume-werry-end-of-season-seasons-greetings/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/gw3-e1515428980343.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Heavy science on a November field day.</image:title><image:caption>Heavy science on a November field day.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/gw2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>One of our field sites: a re-wetted coastal wetland at the Baltic sea.</image:title><image:caption>One of our field sites: a re-wetted coastal wetland at the Baltic sea.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/gw1-e1515428818591.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Gw1</image:title><image:caption>Uh, root litterbags hidden here!</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:30:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/05/24/some-thoughts-on-recognition-along-the-way/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ecr-awards2017-200x200-1523455447017.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ECR-Awards2017-200x200-1523455447017</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:23:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/07/27/seb-meeting-florence-2018/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sebiology-2018-florence-firenze-fiera-simon-callaghan-photography-4526.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SEBiology-2018-Florence-Firenze-Fiera-Simon-Callaghan-Photography-4526</image:title><image:caption>SEB's Conference Dinner. Photo by Simon Callaghan.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sebiology-2018-florence-firenze-fiera-simon-callaghan-photography-2009.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SEBiology-2018-Florence-Firenze-Fiera-Simon-Callaghan-Photography-2009</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sebiology-2018-florence-firenze-fiera-simon-callaghan-photography-2087.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SEBiology-2018-Florence-Firenze-Fiera-Simon-Callaghan-Photography-2087</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sebiology-2018-florence-firenze-fiera-simon-callaghan-photography-3099.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SEBiology-2018-Florence-Firenze-Fiera-Simon-Callaghan-Photography-3099</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sebiology-2018-florence-firenze-fiera-simon-callaghan-photography-1014.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SEBiology-2018-Florence-Firenze-Fiera-Simon-Callaghan-Photography-1014</image:title><image:caption>Photograph by Simon Callaghan</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sebiology-2018-florence-firenze-fiera-simon-callaghan-photography-1250.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SEBiology-2018-Florence-Firenze-Fiera-Simon-Callaghan-Photography-1250</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sebiology-2018-florence-firenze-fiera-simon-callaghan-photography-2141.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SEBiology-2018-Florence-Firenze-Fiera-Simon-Callaghan-Photography-2141</image:title><image:caption>Attendee looking at a poster during SEB 2018's poster session. Photograph by Simon Callaghan</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:16:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/07/03/vishwadeep-mane-being-an-lgbt-ecologist-in-india/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image9.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Biological sciences and main building at IISc</image:title><image:caption>Biological sciences and main building at IISc</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image8.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Biological sciences and main building at IISc</image:title><image:caption>Biological sciences and main building at IISc</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image7.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Me and my friends at IISc.</image:title><image:caption>Me and my friends at IISc.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image6-1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Me and my friends at IISc.</image:title><image:caption>Me and my friends at IISc.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Me and my lab-mate at annual open day representing our lab’s science</image:title><image:caption>Me and my lab-mate at annual open day representing our lab’s science</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Me and my partner Swakshadip.</image:title><image:caption>Me and my partner Swakshadip.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image3-1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>image3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image2-1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>image2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image1-1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>image1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:14:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/06/12/hindsight-a-paper-which-triggered-a-revolution-in-the-field-of-research-synthesis-in-ecology/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/nceas.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NCEAS</image:title><image:caption>The NCEAS working group on meta-analysis in ecology which resulted in a handbook on meta-analysis. Julia is first from the left in the top row and Jessica Gurevitch is the third from the left in the top row.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/visualization.png</image:loc><image:title>Vsualization from the Web of Science showing number of citations of Gurevitch et al. 1992 in different research fields, showing its broad impact</image:title><image:caption>Vsualization from the Web of Science showing number of citations of Gurevitch et al. 1992 in different research fields, showing its broad impact</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:10:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/05/31/resolving-the-conflict-between-conferences-and-care-duties/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/isabel_vanarkel-medium.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Isabel_vanArkel medium</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/remote-work.jpg</image:loc><image:title>remote work</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/is.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Isabel Smallegange</image:title><image:caption>Isabel Smallegange</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-10T11:09:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/05/11/sarah-konare-trees-soil-exploration-for-nitrogen-in-humid-savannas/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/konare-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Konare 3</image:title><image:caption>View of the Lamto savanna landscape. Photo: S. Barot</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/konare-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Konare 2</image:title><image:caption>Aerial view showing the patchy structure of the Lamto savanna vegetation. Here, we can see that patches of trees more or less clumped surrounded by open grassy areas. Photo: J. Gignoux</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/konare-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Konare 1</image:title><image:caption>Sarah Konaré at the Lamto savanna. Photo: T. Srikanthasamy</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-07T10:51:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/12/15/festival-of-ecology-functional-ecology-on-demand-playlist/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/capture.png</image:loc><image:title>Capture</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-06T16:15:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/03/08/international-womens-day-2021-choosetochallenge/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aline-magdalena-lee.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/camille_desjonqueres-3.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/yvonne-buckley-2.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ainaracortesavizanda-3.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/chloe-robinson-2.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/dana-hawley.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/emiliahannula-2.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/kate-irvine-2.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/florencia-yannelli-2.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/julia-koricheva.jpg</image:loc></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-06T16:15:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/04/28/po-peng-how-spiders-use-colour-and-contrast-to-attract-prey/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/spider.jpg</image:loc><image:title>spider</image:title><image:caption>Giant Wood Spider, Nephila pilipes, the study species used in this research as a model for making dummy spiders (photo by Yung-Hau Chang)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/pop_kmu.jpg</image:loc><image:title>POP_KMU</image:title><image:caption>Lead author - Po Peng</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/84971463_1410763535750054_304483125105262592_n.jpg</image:loc><image:title>84971463_1410763535750054_304483125105262592_n</image:title><image:caption>Po Peng (left) and his colleague -  Szu-Wei Chen (right; co-author) were conducting field manipulation in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-06T15:57:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/insights/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/dsc_2485.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_2485</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-06T13:41:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/05/29/choosing-conferences-a-personal-approach/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/talking-with-colleagues-at-sibecol.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Talking with colleagues at SIBECOL</image:title><image:caption>Talking with colleagues at SIBECOL</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/coffee-break-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>coffee break 2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/poster-session-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Poster session 3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/taking-a-picture-of-a-poster.jpg</image:loc><image:title>taking a picture of a poster at the 2018 BES Annual Meeting</image:title><image:caption>taking a picture of a poster at the 2018 BES Annual Meeting</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/looking-at-the-programme-at-the-2018-bes-annual-meeting.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Looking at the programme at the 2018 BES Annual Meeting</image:title><image:caption>Looking at the programme at the 2018 BES Annual Meeting</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/taking-a-break-at-sibecol.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Taking a break at SIBECOL</image:title><image:caption>Taking a break at SIBECOL</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/oscar-godoy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Oscar Godoy</image:title><image:caption>Oscar Godoy</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-06T13:39:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/04/27/ching-wen-tan-the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend-beneficial-natural-enemies-indirectly-increase-plant-productivity-in-surprising-new-ways/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ching-wen-tan_1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ching-Wen Tan_1</image:title><image:caption>Ching-Wen Tan. Photo credit: Ju-Che Lo </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cat-3978.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cat-3978</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cat-3968.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cat-3968</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cat-3943.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cat-3943</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/fig.-10.png</image:loc><image:title>Fig. 10</image:title><image:caption>Parasitoid (Microplitis croceipes) and host caterpillar (Helicoverpa zea). Photo credit: Nick Sloff</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/fig.-9.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fig. 9</image:title><image:caption>Collected seeds and fruits in cups. Photo credit: Ju-Che Lo</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/fig.-8.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fig. 8</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/fig.-7.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fig. 7</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/fig.-6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fig. 6</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-27T10:13:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/05/21/andrii-zaiats-surface-roots-in-a-high-desert-shrub/</loc><lastmod>2021-04-20T16:11:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/04/22/jessica-moore-root-microbe-ecologist-interactions/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/figure-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>figure 1</image:title><image:caption>Schematic of hypothesized interactions between roots, mycorrhizal fungi, and soil decomposer microbes. We hypothesized that roots and mycorrhizal fungi would stimulate microbial decomposition of organic matter. In the left panel, roots and mycorrhizal fungi have access to soil and enzymatic activity and CO2 flux (blue arrow) is moderately higher than the middle panel where only mycorrhizal fungi are present, and much higher than the right panel where roots and mycorrhizal fungi are excluded. Schematic was originally published by Moore et al. in Journal of Ecology (DOI 10.1111/1365-2745.12484). </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/jess_pic_2021.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jess_pic_2021</image:title><image:caption>An ecologist on vacation. Jessica Moore enjoys exploring the outdoors in her work and in her free time. Photo taken at Cumberland Island National Seashore, GA. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/jess-head-shot-2018.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jess Head shot 2018</image:title><image:caption>Jessica Moore is a microbial and ecosystem ecologist currently working in the Biosciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/happy-licor.jpg</image:loc><image:title>happy licor</image:title><image:caption>Carbon dioxide fluxes in the PVC mesocosms were measured using an infrared gas analyzer (LiCor 6400). </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2014-05-13-18.30.49.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2014-05-13 18.30.49</image:title><image:caption>Jessica Moore uses a hammer corer to excavate soils. PVC mesocosms were filled with the soil and placed into the same hole the soil was collected from. A mesocosm laying on the ground here shows the windows lined with stainless steel mesh, which was large enough to allow roots, fungi, and most soil fauna to enter. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/41-60.jpg</image:loc><image:title>41-60</image:title><image:caption>Gas and soil samples were collected from PVC mesocosms inserted into soil. Photo taken at Marcell Experimental Forest, MN. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-19T15:58:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/04/02/noemie-pichon-decomposition-disentangled/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/the-pandiv-experiment-during-the-weeding.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The PaNDiv experiment during the weeding. Credit: Hugo VincentThe PaNDiv experiment during the weeding. Credit: Hugo Vincent</image:title><image:caption>The PaNDiv experiment during the weeding.
Credit: Hugo Vincent
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/noemie-pichon-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Noemie Pichon</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/litterbags-decomposition-experiment.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Litterbags decomposition experiment. Autumn 2017. Credit: Hugo Vincent</image:title><image:caption>Litterbags decomposition experiment. Autumn 2017. Credit: Hugo Vincent
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-19T08:43:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/04/21/nina-schiettekatte-quantifying-elemental-fluxes-in-fishes/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/nina-7.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nina 7</image:title><image:caption>Nina diving to collect fishes in French Polynesia. Copyright: Jennifer Adler</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/nina-6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nina 6</image:title><image:caption>Epinephelus merra, one of the three study species we used to validate our model. Photo credit: Jordan M. Casey</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/nina-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nina 5</image:title><image:caption>During our field work we had a very lucky encounter with a young humpback whale. (photo: Nina Schiettekatte)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/nina-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nina 4</image:title><image:caption>Nina photographing a very long fish intestine. (credit: Jennifer Adler)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/nina-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nina 3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/nina-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nina 2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/nina-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nina 1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-13T15:28:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/04/19/noemie-pichon-decomposition-disentangled-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/the-pandiv-experiment-during-the-weeding.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The PaNDiv experiment during the weeding</image:title><image:caption>L’expérience de PaNDiv pendant le désherbage. 
Crédit : Hugo Vincent
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/litterbags-decomposition-experiment.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Litterbags decomposition experiment</image:title><image:caption>Sacs de litière pour l’expérience de décomposition, automne 2017. 
Crédit : Hugo Vincent
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/noemie-pichon.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Noemie Pichon</image:title><image:caption>Seraina Cappelli et Noémie Pichon sur l’expérience de PaNDiv, mai 2017.
Crédit : Hugo Vincent</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-13T15:02:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/04/20/benjamin-hafner-split-it-disentangling-functional-mechanisms-in-forest-ecology-research/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ben-pic-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ben pic 4</image:title><image:caption>Setting trees into pots in the greenhouse was fun, especially when their root system was as long as the legs of the researcher</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ben-pic-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ben pic 3</image:title><image:caption>Cross section of an oak root, ablated with laser tomography. This technique yields very nice images!</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ben-pic-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ben pic 2</image:title><image:caption>Setting up a split-root system with a Douglas fir tree. Separating the root system was easy for this species.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ben-pic-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ben pic 1</image:title><image:caption>Split-root system with oak trees. Finding oaks with two equally developed roots was a difficult task!</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-13T14:53:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/12/04/meet-the-editors-lara-ferry/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/lfbiker.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lara Ferry, getting her motorcycle license</image:title><image:caption>Lara Ferry, getting her motorcycle license</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/lf-jonathan-miske.jpg</image:loc><image:title>San Juan Islands. (Credit: Jonathan Miske)</image:title><image:caption>San Juan Islands. (Credit: Jonathan Miske)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/lf-seahorse-flip.jpg</image:loc><image:title>LF - seahorse flip</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/lf-banner.jpg</image:loc><image:title>LF Banner</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-13T11:12:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/11/08/ae-profile-antonio-jose-manzaneda/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ajm-f3b.jpg</image:loc><image:title>AJM F3b</image:title><image:caption>Arid badlands where this species naturally occurs in southern Spain</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ajm-f3a.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Spikelet of the allotetraploid B. hybridum</image:title><image:caption>Spikelet of the allotetraploid B. hybridum</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ajm-f2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) larvae feeding on a B. stricta plant.</image:title><image:caption>Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) larvae feeding on a B. stricta plant.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ajm1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>AJM1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ajm-f1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Worker of the ant species Camponotus cruentatus trying to remove H. foetidus diaspores in a cafeteria experiment designed to evaluate ant-seed dispersal rates.</image:title><image:caption>Worker of the ant species Camponotus cruentatus trying to remove H. foetidus diaspores in a cafeteria experiment designed to evaluate ant-seed dispersal rates.  </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-13T11:12:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/11/05/ae-profile-oscar-godoy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ogodoy3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mediterranean cork oak (Quercus suber) forests located in Spain and Portugal provide multiple ecological and socio-economical services, many of which are at risk by the combined effect of land use intensification, fire, climate change, and invasive species.</image:title><image:caption>Mediterranean cork oak (Quercus suber) forests located in Spain and Portugal provide multiple ecological and socio-economical services, many of which are at risk by the combined effect of land use intensification, fire, climate change, and invasive species. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ogodoy2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Annual grasslands in Doñana National Park (Spain). These ecosystems harbour an outstanding diversity of plants, insects (e.g. bees, beetles, ants, grasshoppers), and gastropods species with disparate trophic roles within communities.</image:title><image:caption>Annual grasslands in Doñana National Park (Spain). These ecosystems harbour an outstanding diversity of plants, insects (e.g. bees, beetles, ants, grasshoppers), and gastropods species with disparate trophic roles within communities.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ogodoy1.png</image:loc><image:title>Oscar between an annual prairie in Sierra Norte (Spain) and an algae community in Mull Island (UK) searching for generalities across ecosystems.</image:title><image:caption>Oscar between an annual prairie in Sierra Norte (Spain) and an algae community in Mull Island (UK) searching for generalities across ecosystems.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-13T11:12:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/12/05/meet-the-editors-alan-knapp/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ak-olga-ernst-1280px-franschhoek_sc3bcdafrika.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Franschhoek (Credit: Olga Ernst)</image:title><image:caption>Franschhoek (Credit: Olga Ernst)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ak-cone_flowers.jpg</image:loc><image:title>AK Cone_flowers</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ak-alan-knapp-south-africa.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Alan Knapp in South Africa</image:title><image:caption>Alan Knapp in South Africa</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ak-banner.jpg</image:loc><image:title>AK Banner</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-13T11:12:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/10/02/associate-editor-profile-angelica-l-gonzalez/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gonzc3a1lez-00412.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tank bromeliads in Ilha do Cardoso Brazil. Credit: Angélica L. González</image:title><image:caption>Tank bromeliads in Ilha do Cardoso Brazil. Credit: Angélica L. González</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/angc3a9lica-l-gonzc3a1lez.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Angélica L. González</image:title><image:caption>Angélica L. González</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-13T11:12:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/08/23/associate-editor-profile-tom-houslay/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/tomhouslay.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tom Houslay</image:title><image:caption>Tom Houslay</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-04-13T11:12:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/03/23/alihan-katlav-egg-size-matters-for-sex-allocation-in-thrips/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/katlav-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Katlav 3</image:title><image:caption>Alihan (right) and his mother, Shams Paryav (left) with a view of blue mountains, NSW in the background, portrayed by a close friend of Alihan, Shima Arian Nezhad in 6th Jun 2020.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/katlav-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Katlav 2</image:title><image:caption>Egg size-mediated sex allocation in Pezothrips kellyanus. Females regulate access of sperm stored in their spermathecae to eggs depending on egg size, and thereby control sex allocation. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/katlav-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Katlav 1</image:title><image:caption>Author Alihan Katlav, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Western Sydney University, NSW, Australia
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-03-19T17:25:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/03/16/daphne-cortese-bleached-anemones-alter-anemonefish-physiology-behaviour/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cortese-6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cortese 6</image:title><image:caption>Another day at the office. Aerial view of the north lagoon of Moorea, French Polynesia, location where the current study was conducted. View from the Mount Rotui (Photo by Daphne Cortese).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cortese-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cortese 5</image:title><image:caption>A day in the field in Moorea, French Polynesia (Photo by Marc Besson).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cortese-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cortese 4</image:title><image:caption>Daphne Cortese visiting an anemonefish site in Moorea, French Polynesia (Photo by Marc Besson).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cortese-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cortese 3</image:title><image:caption>Adult of Amphiprion chrysopterus from Moorea (Photo by Anne Haguenauer).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cortese-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cortese 1</image:title><image:caption>Juvenile of orange-fin anemonefish (Amphiprion chrysopterus) in a bleached anemone (Photo by Daphne Cortese).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cortese-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cortese 2</image:title><image:caption>Juvenile of Amphiprion chrysopterus in a healthy anemone (Photo by Daphne Cortese).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-03-16T09:41:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/03/09/resistance-and-tolerance-of-salamanders-to-an-emerging-fungal-pathogen/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wilber-pic-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wilber pic 3</image:title><image:caption>Mark Wilber</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/wilber-pic-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wilber pic 2</image:title><image:caption>Swabbing salamanders to detect Bsal infection and quantify Bsal infection intensity (photo by Todd Amacker Conservation Visuals).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/wilber-pic-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wilber pic 1</image:title><image:caption>The bullseye-like lesions on the face of this roughed-skin newt (Taricha granulosa) are a result of infection with the emerging fungal pathogen Bsal (photo by Todd Amacker Conservation Visuals).  </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-03-09T10:36:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/02/19/meet-the-editors-sandra-varga/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2.-photo-fe.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2. Photo FE</image:title><image:caption>Close up of the flowers of Geranium sylvaticum, one of Sandra's favourite study systems. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1.-photo-fe.png</image:loc><image:title>1. Photo FE</image:title><image:caption>Sandra Varga setting up a field experiment to exclude pollinators in Lincoln, UK.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-03-04T11:06:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/03/02/fiona-scarff-effect-of-plant-hydraulic-traits-on-flammability/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/scarff-pic-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Scarff pic 5</image:title><image:caption> An echidna moves through a blackened fire ground. Photo: J. Lewin.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/scarff-pic-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Scarff pic 4</image:title><image:caption>Coauthor Tanja Lenz (R) and field assistant Robyn Sinclair (L) at our semi-arid field site. Photo: T. Lenz. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/scarff-pic-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Scarff pic 3</image:title><image:caption>When a fire passed through this woodland, all the greenery was combusted or scorched except the cypress pines (bright green shrubs in foreground, Callitris verrucosa). You can see the skeletal remains of the other shrubs and trees. All the other foliage in this scene is newly grown, from after the fire came through. Photo: F. Scarff.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/scarff-pic-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Scarff pic 2</image:title><image:caption>Co-author Ian Wright, equipped with fly net and compass, measuring internal water pressures in plant samples. The pressure chamber apparatus he is using is colloquially called a pressure bomb, from years of old when ‘bomb’ meant a robust, hollow vessel. It’s a good idea to be careful with the wording when importing them into Australia, as for some reason Customs can be  alarmed about having ‘pressure bombs’ loaded onto a plane. Photo: T. Lenz.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/scarff-pic-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Scarff pic 1</image:title><image:caption>Bushfire grounds near Bermagui in south-eastern Australia, viewed through a destroyed termite mound. Photos: F. Scarff, J. Lewin.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-03-01T16:22:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/02/23/jitka-klimesova-why-we-should-all-care-more-about-belowground-plant-organs/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ruch-v-podzemi.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ruch v podzemi</image:title><image:caption>Ruch v podzemi – researchers measuring plant traits - original linocut by Jitka Klimesova</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/mysky.jpg</image:loc><image:title>mysky</image:title><image:caption>Mysky – Belowground storage organs or herbs are not only useful but also tasty - original linocut by Jitka Klimesova</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/dsc_0037.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_0037</image:title><image:caption>Jitka Klimesova sorting biomass in field</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/dsc_0016.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_0016</image:title><image:caption>belowground organs (short epigeogenous rhizome and storage root tubers) of meadow herb Filipendula vulgaris</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-02-24T09:35:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/02/09/no-quantification-without-calibration-estimating-energy-expenditure/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/halsey-blog-photo-2.png</image:loc><image:title>Halsey blog photo 2</image:title><image:caption>Figure 1A from the publication. Examples of relationships for various animals between rate of energy expenditure (oxygen consumption) and a proxy (body motion, represented by the derivative ‘overall dynamic body acceleration’) during terrestrial locomotion. For every species, the relationship does not pass through the origin and thus is not proportional.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/halsey-blog-photo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Halsey blog photo</image:title><image:caption>Author Lewis Halsey, with his 4-month old daughter, Charlotte. Photo by: Lewis Halsey</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-02-17T11:15:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/02/16/louise-s-norgaard/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/noergaard-image-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>noergaard image 3</image:title><image:caption>Louise S. Nørgaard </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/noergaard-image-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>noergaard image 2</image:title><image:caption>Daphnia incubated in a temperature controlled chamber</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/noergaard-image.jpg</image:loc><image:title>noergaard image</image:title><image:caption>Daphnia life cycle by Savanna Ganucheau @Srganuch (https://srganuch.carbonmade.com/)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-02-16T09:21:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/02/02/monique-weemstra-how-do-trees-modify-their-roots-to-adapt-to-their-location/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/photo6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo6</image:title><image:caption>Monique Weemstra</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/photo5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo5</image:title><image:caption>Our camera man/field and lab assistant/driver/cook/my husband looking for a good spot to film: Hans Reijnen</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/photo4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo4</image:title><image:caption>The team on its way to the highest sampling plot (top of the upper ridge)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/photo3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo3</image:title><image:caption>Finding the right grass species: Monique Weemstra, Nereyda Cruz-Maldonado (Ph.D. student, AMPA, France), Dr. Leonor Jiménez (INECOL, Mexico)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/photo2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo2</image:title><image:caption>Scanning roots in the lab/bedroom/laundry room: Monique Weemstra</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/photo1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-02-02T17:08:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2021/01/26/dylan-gomes-how-the-acoustic-environment-shapes-spider-abundance-and-behaviour/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/gomes-pic-6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gomes pic 6</image:title><image:caption>The lead author hiking from one site to another in the Pioneer Mountains of Idaho.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/gomes-pic-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gomes pic 5</image:title><image:caption>Living spiders in vials sit in front of a laptop computer during body weight data collection.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/gomes-pic-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gomes pic 4</image:title><image:caption>A suspended speaker broadcasts intense river noise near a small stream. The solar panel charges batteries that power the speaker throughout the day and night for months each year.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/gomes-pic-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gomes pic 3</image:title><image:caption>An orb-weaving spider web after the spider has been collected.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/gomes-pic-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gomes pic 2</image:title><image:caption>A female orb-weaving spider (Larinioides patagiatus) near a web retreat.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/gomes-pic-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gomes pic 1</image:title><image:caption>Lead author (left) setting up a speaker tripod for whitewater river noise playback.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-01-25T15:22:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/12/10/nacho-villar-the-challenges-of-experimentally-resolving-the-functional-roles-of-large-tropical-forest-herbivores/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pic5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pic5</image:title><image:caption>White lipped peccaries</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pic4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pic4</image:title><image:caption>Animal exclusion plot</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pic3-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pic3</image:title><image:caption>Setting up the exclusion experiment</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pic2-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pic2</image:title><image:caption>Brazilian Atlantic forest</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pic1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pic1</image:title><image:caption>Nacho Villar in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pic3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pic3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pic2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pic2</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-12-10T10:08:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/11/27/michel-eisenring-within-crown-heterogeneity-can-affect-herbivore-performance-in-tree-canopies/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/michel-at-work-collecting-leaf-samples.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Michel at work collecting leaf samples</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/michel-at-the-wisasp-common-garden.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Michel at the WisAsp common garden</image:title><image:caption>Michel at the WisAsp common garden</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/lymantria-dispare280afl.-caterpillar.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lymantria dispar L. caterpillar</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-12-01T11:12:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/11/25/charlotte-poeydebat-effects-of-tree-diversity-on-forest-resistance-to-insect-herbivores/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/01_copyright-inge-van-halder.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A moth on a birch leaf (c) Inge VAN HALDER</image:title><image:caption>A moth on a birch leaf (c) Inge VAN HALDER</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/05_copyright-soline-martin-blangy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Charlotte Poeydebat taking notes in the field (c) Soline MARTIN-BLANGY</image:title><image:caption>Charlotte Poeydebat taking notes in the field (c) Soline MARTIN-BLANGY 
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/02_copyright-bastien-castagneyrol.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The ORPHEE experimental site in Southwestern France in 2018 (c) Bastien CASTAGNEYROL</image:title><image:caption>The ORPHEE experimental site in Southwestern France in 2018 (c) Bastien CASTAGNEYROL </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-11-24T18:03:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/11/13/lauren-nadler-nothing-to-gain-with-parasites-on-the-brain/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/dr.-lauren-nadler-recording-fish-social-behaviours-on-scuba-using-a-3d-stereocamera-on-the-great-barrier-reef-australia-photo-credit-eva-mcclure..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dr. Lauren Nadler recording fish social behaviours on SCUBA using a 3D stereocamera on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (photo credit Eva McClure).</image:title><image:caption>Dr. Lauren Nadler recording fish social behaviours on SCUBA using a 3D stereocamera on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (photo credit Eva McClure).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/drlaur2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dr. Lauren Nadler preparing field study mesocosms at the Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve in San Diego, California, where the killifish used in this study were collected. (photo credit Stephen Brown).</image:title><image:caption>Dr. Lauren Nadler preparing field study mesocosms at the Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve in San Diego, California, where the killifish used in this study were collected. (photo credit Stephen Brown).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/dr.-lauren-nadler-at-the-lizard-island-research-station-in-australia-photo-credit-shaun-killen..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dr. Lauren Nadler at the Lizard Island Research Station in Australia (photo credit Shaun Killen).</image:title><image:caption>Dr. Lauren Nadler at the Lizard Island Research Station in Australia (photo credit Shaun Killen). </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/aeutha1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A euthanized California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis) with its brain exposed, revealing its infection with the trematode parasite Euhaplorchis californiensis. Each of the small dots visible on the brain is an individual parasite. (photo credit Lauren Nadler).</image:title><image:caption>A euthanized California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis) with its brain exposed, revealing its infection with the trematode parasite Euhaplorchis californiensis. Each of the small dots visible on the brain is an individual parasite. (photo credit Lauren Nadler). </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-11-13T13:11:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/11/13/jamie-waterman-silicon-and-simulated-herbivory-modify-plant-defences/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/scanning-electron-microcope-sem-image-of-brachypodium-distachyon-leaves-devoid-of-si-si-left-and-si-supplemented-si-right..png</image:loc><image:title>Scanning Electron Microcope (SEM) image of Brachypodium distachyon leaves devoid of Si (-Si, left) and Si-supplemented (Si+, right).</image:title><image:caption>Scanning Electron Microcope (SEM) image of Brachypodium distachyon leaves devoid of Si (-Si, left) and Si-supplemented (Si+, right).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/jamie-enjoying-the-weather-from-his-balcony-in-sydney..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jamie enjoying the weather from his balcony in Sydney.</image:title><image:caption>Jamie enjoying the weather from his balcony in Sydney.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/brachypodium-distachyon-grown-in-the-hydroponic-setup-used-in-this-study..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brachypodium distachyon grown in the hydroponic setup used in this study.</image:title><image:caption>Brachypodium distachyon grown in the hydroponic setup used in this study.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-11-13T12:37:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/11/13/anna-katharina-pilsbacher-troubling-the-neighbours-in-the-tundra/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/plants-growing-in-e.n-leaf-litter.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A picture of the vegetation of an early season snow bed. The forbs and grasses in the picture grow on top of detritus, mostly Empetrum nigrum leaves, accumulated during the snowmelt.</image:title><image:caption>A picture of the vegetation of an early season snow bed. The forbs and grasses in the picture grow on top of detritus, mostly Empetrum nigrum leaves, accumulated during the snowmelt.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/a-representative-picture-of-our-study-area-in-ifjord.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A representative picture of our study area in Ifjord</image:title><image:caption>A representative picture of our study area in Ifjord</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/a-picture-of-myself-in-the-field-on-svalbard.-photo-credited-to-fumino-maruo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A picture of myself in the field (on Svalbard). Photo credited to Fumino Maruo</image:title><image:caption>A picture of myself in the field (on Svalbard). Photo credited to Fumino Maruo</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-11-13T12:09:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/10/31/sandra-klemet-nguessan-am-i-a-black-ecologist/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/pilot-study-of-an-excretion-experiment-here-with-a-largemouth-bass-micropterus-salmoides-in-the-detroit-river-windsor-canada.-c2a9-amy-weinz.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pilot study of an excretion experiment (here with a Largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides) in the Detroit River, Windsor, Canada. © Amy Weinz</image:title><image:caption> 
Pilot study of an excretion experiment (here with a Largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides) in the Detroit River, Windsor, Canada. © Amy Weinz
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/my-study-species-eating-my-other-study-species.-c2a9-sandra-klemet-nguessan.jpg</image:loc><image:title>My study species eating my other study species. © Sandra Klemet-N’Guessan</image:title><image:caption>My study species eating my other study species. © Sandra Klemet-N’Guessan</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/jackson-creek-one-of-the-11-streams-i-study-in-south-central-ontario-canada.-c2a9-bianca-nucaro-viteri-from-705-creative.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jackson Creek, one of the 11 streams I study in south-central Ontario, Canada. © Bianca Nucaro-Viteri from 705 Creative</image:title><image:caption>Jackson Creek, one of the 11 streams I study in south-central Ontario, Canada. © Bianca Nucaro-Viteri from 705 Creative </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/humber-river-one-of-the-11-streams-i-study-in-south-central-ontario-canada.-c2a9-sandra-klemet-nguessan.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Humber River, one of the 11 streams I study in south-central Ontario, Canada. © Sandra Klemet-N’Guessan</image:title><image:caption>Humber River, one of the 11 streams I study in south-central Ontario, Canada. © Sandra Klemet-N’Guessan</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1st-day.jpg</image:loc><image:title>First day of an excretion experiment series in 11 streams in south-central Ontario, Canada. My field colleagues and I were identifying and recording various fish species before putting them in individual bags for the excretion experiment. © Brett Tregunno</image:title><image:caption>First day of an excretion experiment series in 11 streams in south-central Ontario, Canada. My field colleagues and I were identifying and recording various fish species before putting them in individual bags for the excretion experiment. © Brett Tregunno</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-11-19T20:42:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/10/20/henry-pollock-can-tropical-and-temperate-birds-take-the-heat-of-climate-change/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/the-infamous-harpy-eagle-harpia-harpyja-that-attacked-henry-during-his-dissertation-fieldwork.-photo-credit-torrey-rodgers-2011..jpg</image:loc><image:title>The infamous Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja) that attacked Henry during his dissertation fieldwork. Photo credit Torrey Rodgers, 2011.</image:title><image:caption>The infamous Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja) that attacked Henry during his dissertation fieldwork. Photo credit: Torrey Rodgers, 2011.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/henry-holding-a-lizard-at-the-long-term-mist-netting-study-site.-photo-credit-sean-macdonald-2014..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Henry holding a lizard at the long-term mist netting study site. Photo credit Sean MacDonald, 2014.</image:title><image:caption>Henry holding a lizard at the long-term mist netting study site. Photo credit Sean MacDonald, 2014.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/henryh2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Henry holding a Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) captured during his dissertation fieldwork in central Panama. Photo credit: Zach Welty, 2012.</image:title><image:caption>Henry holding a Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) captured during his dissertation fieldwork in central Panama. Photo credit: Zach Welty, 2012.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/anadul1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>An adult male Red-capped Manakin (Ceratopipra mentalis), the most commonly captured bird species in the long-term mist netting dataset. Photo credit: Diego Rincón, 2013.</image:title><image:caption>An adult male Red-capped Manakin (Ceratopipra mentalis), the most commonly captured bird species in the long-term mist netting dataset. Photo credit: Diego Rincón, 2013.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-20T11:38:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/10/21/francisco-e-fonturbel-cryptic-interactions-between-trees-mosses-and-hummingbirds/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/francisco-in-the-field-contemplating-an-endemic-moss-in-the-temperate-rainforests-of-southern-chile-credit-johana-villagra..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Francisco in the field, contemplating an endemic moss in the temperate rainforests of Southern Chile (credit Johana Villagra).</image:title><image:caption>Francisco in the field, contemplating an endemic moss in the temperate rainforests of Southern Chile (credit Johana Villagra).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/a-hummingbird-in-a-living-nest-made-of-mosses-and-ferns-credit-felipe-rabanal..jpg</image:loc><image:title>A hummingbird in a living nest made of mosses and ferns (credit Felipe Rabanal).</image:title><image:caption>A hummingbird in a living nest made of mosses and ferns (credit Felipe Rabanal).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-16T16:08:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/10/15/andrew-eagar-mycorrhizal-types-influence-local-spatial-structure-in-temperate-forest-tree-communities/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ksu_2603.jpg</image:loc><image:title>KSU_2603</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/img_3461.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_3461</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20170526_131651.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20170526_131651</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-16T10:27:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/10/15/bingwei-zhang-trait-plasticity-determines-species-performance/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/bingwei-zhang-photo-by-minling-chen.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bingwei Zhang (photo by Minling Chen)</image:title><image:caption>Bingwei Zhang (photo by Minling Chen)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/the-field-precipitation-manipulation-experiment-photo-by-bingwei-zhang.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The field precipitation manipulation experiment (photo by Bingwei Zhang)</image:title><image:caption>The field precipitation manipulation experiment (photo by Bingwei Zhang)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/overview-of-the-studied-grassland-photo-by-bingwei-zhang.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Overview of the studied grassland (photo by Bingwei Zhang)</image:title><image:caption>Overview of the studied grassland (photo by Bingwei Zhang)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-15T15:32:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/10/19/jhan-salazar-journeys-of-an-afro-colombian-ecologist/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/picture8.jpg</image:loc><image:title>My favorite type of anole, Anolis princeps: this photo was taken during my undergrad thesis.</image:title><image:caption>My favorite type of anole, Anolis princeps: this photo was taken during my undergrad thesis.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/picture7.jpg</image:loc><image:title>This photo was taken on a field trip I took with Dr. Kristin Winchell in the Dominican Republic at the Jardín Botánico Nacional Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso.</image:title><image:caption>This photo was taken on a field trip I took with Dr. Kristin Winchell in the Dominican Republic at the Jardín Botánico Nacional Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/picture6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>This photo was taken during my undergrad thesis in Estación Biológica Zygia in Cali, Colombia, and I'm holding an Anolis orcesi.</image:title><image:caption>This photo was taken during my undergrad thesis in Estación Biológica Zygia in Cali, Colombia, and I'm holding an Anolis orcesi.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-15T13:33:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/10/08/insight-jiri-dolezal/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/potentilla-team-jumping-at-5000-m.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Potentilla team jumping at 5000 m</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-08T14:16:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/10/08/emily-waddell-tropical-forests-functional-traits-and-community-tolerance/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/figure-4.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Emily Waddell in Danum Valley Conservation Area in Sabah (Photo credit - Charlotte Gallagher).</image:title><image:caption>Emily Waddell in Danum Valley Conservation Area in Sabah (Photo credit - Charlotte Gallagher).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/figure-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The most common exotic species, invasive shrub Clidemia hirta, found inside rainforest remnants in Sabah.</image:title><image:caption>The most common exotic species, invasive shrub Clidemia hirta, found inside rainforest remnants in Sabah.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/figure-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Oil palm-dominated landscape in the North of Sabah with small embedded rainforest remnants.</image:title><image:caption>Oil palm-dominated landscape in the North of Sabah with small embedded rainforest remnants.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/figure-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Oil palm plantation in the South-East of Sabah, showing the different stages of oil palm tree growth from first planting to mature trees. Embedded rainforest remnants can be seen on the horizon.</image:title><image:caption>Oil palm plantation in the South-East of Sabah, showing the different stages of oil palm tree growth from first planting to mature trees. Embedded rainforest remnants can be seen on the horizon.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-08T14:08:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/22/3449/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/pic2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>André working at the experiment</image:title><image:caption>André working at the experiment</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/pic1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Multiple samples of 'blue grama' experiment</image:title><image:caption>Multiple samples of 'blue grama' experiment</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-24T09:03:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/17/moving-ecology-dinesh-neupane/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/teaching-local-community-members-about-wildlife-monitoring-techniques..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Teaching local community members about wildlife monitoring techniques.</image:title><image:caption>Teaching local community members about wildlife monitoring techniques.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/taking-the-gps-location-of-the-elephants-sighted..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Taking the GPS location of the elephants sighted.</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/setting-camera-traps-for-wildlife-monitoring-in-the-field..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Setting camera traps for wildlife monitoring in the field.</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/in-search-of-asian-elephant-with-field-crew..jpg</image:loc><image:title>In search of Asian elephant with field crew.</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/collecting-a-dung-sample-for-a-dna-study-of-elephants..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Collecting a dung sample for a DNA study of elephants.</image:title><image:caption>Collecting a dung sample for a DNA study of elephants.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-17T15:39:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/18/maud-ferrari-sharing-predation-cues-in-degraded-coral-reefs/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/me-posing-for-an-nserc-picture.-im-pretending-to-be-looking-at-a-fish-tank-in-my-lab-in-canada.-photo-courtesy-of-nserc..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Me posing for an NSERC picture. I'm pretending to be looking at a fish tank in my lab in Canada. Photo courtesy of NSERC.</image:title><image:caption>Me posing for an NSERC picture. I'm pretending to be looking at a fish tank in my lab in Canada. Photo courtesy of NSERC.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/me-doing-field-work-in-canada-measuring-dissolved-oxygen-levels-in-the-water.-photo-courtesy-of-katherine-fedoroff..png</image:loc><image:title>Me doing field work in Canada, measuring dissolved oxygen levels in the water. Photo courtesy of Katherine Fedoroff.</image:title><image:caption>Me doing field work in Canada, measuring dissolved oxygen levels in the water. Photo courtesy of Katherine Fedoroff.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/im-inserting-an-elastomer-tag-in-a-juvenile-damselfish-so-they-can-be-identified-in-the-field-once-released.-photo-courtesy-of-doug-chivers..jpg</image:loc><image:title>I'm inserting an elastomer tag in a juvenile damselfish, so they can be identified in the field once released. Photo courtesy of Doug Chivers.</image:title><image:caption>I'm inserting an elastomer tag in a juvenile damselfish, so they can be identified in the field once released. Photo courtesy of Doug Chivers.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/a-predatory-dottyback-background-and-a-damselfish-closer-up.-photo-courtesy-of-chris-mirbach.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A predatory dottyback (background) and a damselfish (closer up). Photo courtesy of Chris Mirbach</image:title><image:caption>A predatory dottyback (background) and a damselfish (closer up). Photo courtesy of Chris Mirbach</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-17T15:04:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/18/jana-doudova-under-the-dominants/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/wetland-team-collecting-data-in-the-filed-with-jana-in-the-middle.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wetland team collecting data in the filed with Jana in the middle</image:title><image:caption>Wetland team collecting data in the filed with Jana in the middle</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/garden-experiment-and-biomass-collecting-summer-2015.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Garden experiment and biomass collecting, summer 2015</image:title><image:caption>Garden experiment and biomass collecting, summer 2015</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/black-alder-alnus-glutinosa-swamp-forest-the-nature-reserve-vrbenske-ponds-near-budweis-in-south-bohemia.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Black alder (Alnus glutinosa) swamp forest; The nature reserve Vrbenské Ponds near Budweis in South Bohemia</image:title><image:caption>Black alder (Alnus glutinosa) swamp forest; The nature reserve Vrbenské Ponds near Budweis in South Bohemia</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/alder-carr-community-with-a-dominant-species-carex-elata-at-the-back-and-threatened-species-calla-palustris-in-the-front.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Alder carr community with a dominant species Carex elata (at the back) and threatened species Calla palustris (in the front)</image:title><image:caption>Alder carr community with a dominant species Carex elata (at the back) and threatened species Calla palustris (in the front)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-17T14:34:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/21/melanie-pollierer-saprotrophic-and-ectomycorrhizal-fungi-and-their-consumers-can-be-separated-using-amino-acid-fingerprints/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/fruiting-bodies.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fruiting bodies of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi similar to those analysed along with gnat larvae living and feeding inside. Photo credits: Jörg Müller, Jörg Hailer.</image:title><image:caption>Fruiting bodies of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi similar to those analysed along with gnat larvae living and feeding inside. Photo credits: Jörg Müller, Jörg Hailer.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/a-gnat.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A – Gnat larva (Mycetophilidae) which feeds inside fungal fruiting bodies and B – Springtails on dead leaves, important fungal feeders in forest soil food webs. Photo credits Stefan Scheu, Sarah Bluhm.</image:title><image:caption>A – Gnat larva (Mycetophilidae) which feeds inside fungal fruiting bodies and B – Springtails on dead leaves, important fungal feeders in forest soil food webs. Photo credits Stefan Scheu, Sarah Bluhm.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/melanie.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Melanie Pollierer</image:title><image:caption>Melanie Pollierer</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-17T14:16:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/17/carlos-garcia-robledo-drivers-of-body-size-in-tropical-insects-evolutionary-history-or-temperature/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cephaloleia-rolled-leaf-beetles-live-inside-the-scroll-formed-by-the-young-leaves-of-its-host-plants-from-the-order-zingiberales.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cephaloleia rolled-leaf beetles live inside the scroll formed by the young leaves of its host plants from the order Zingiberales. In this study, Garcia-Robledo et al. show that body size along elevational gradients is associated with evolutionary history, not ecogeographic rules.</image:title><image:caption>Cephaloleia rolled-leaf beetles live inside the scroll formed by the young leaves of its host plants from the order Zingiberales. In this study, Garcia-Robledo et al. show that body size along elevational gradients is associated with evolutionary history, not ecogeographic rules.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/carlos-garcia-robledo-assistant-professor-in-the-department-of-ecology-and-evolutionary-biology-university-of-connecticut..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Carlos Garcia-Robledo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut.</image:title><image:caption>Carlos Garcia-Robledo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut.

</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-17T13:52:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/10/john-grunseich-risky-roots-and-careful-herbivores/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/img_6313.jpg</image:loc><image:title>John Grunseich at work</image:title><image:caption>John Grunseich at work</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/img_4083.jpg</image:loc><image:title>John Grunseich at work</image:title><image:caption>John Grunseich at work</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/grunseich.jpeg</image:loc></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-10T12:20:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/10/war-pandemics-and-biodiversity-research-a-complicated-blend-in-colombia/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/typical-landscape-of-la-serrania-de-san-lucas-in-colombia-with-forests-coffee-crops-and-pastures..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Typical landscape of La Serrania de San Lucas in Colombia with forests, coffee crops, and pastures.</image:title><image:caption>Typical landscape of La Serrania de San Lucas in Colombia with forests, coffee crops, and pastures.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/installing-camera-traps-for-mammals-with-the-research-team-jorge-ari-noriega-cristina-tingle-carlos-valderrama-and-two-coffee-farmers-of-the-zone..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Installing camera traps for mammals with the research team (Jorge Ari Noriega, Cristina Tingle, Carlos Valderrama, and two coffee farmers of the zone).</image:title><image:caption>Installing camera traps for mammals with the research team (Jorge Ari Noriega, Cristina Tingle, Carlos Valderrama, and two coffee farmers of the zone).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/a-common-roller-dung-beetle-of-the-area-sylvicanthon-aequinoctialis-harold-1868..jpg</image:loc><image:title>A common roller dung beetle of the area- Sylvicanthon aequinoctialis (Harold, 1868).</image:title><image:caption>A common roller dung beetle of the area- Sylvicanthon aequinoctialis (Harold, 1868).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-16T15:44:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/04/allyson-menzies-exploring-thermoregulatory-strategies-of-sympatric-species/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/image4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Snowshoe hare being released from a trap. Photo credit: Symon Ptashnik</image:title><image:caption>Snowshoe hare being released from a trap. Photo credit: Symon Ptashnik</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/image3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Winter scene in Kluane, Yukon. Photo credit: Allyson Menzies.</image:title><image:caption>Winter scene in Kluane, Yukon. Photo credit: Allyson Menzies.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/image2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ally releasing a snowshoe hare. Photo credit: Ally's iPhone.</image:title><image:caption>Ally releasing a snowshoe hare. Photo credit: Ally's iPhone.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/image1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ally in the Yukon. Photo credit: Yasmine Majchrzak.</image:title><image:caption>Ally in the Yukon. Photo credit: Yasmine Majchrzak.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-03T20:58:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/07/moving-ecology-sandra-varga/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/working-in-the-greenhouse-in-oulu-finland..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Working in the greenhouse in Oulu, Finland.</image:title><image:caption>Working in the greenhouse in Oulu, Finland.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/skiing-over-the-frozen-sea-in-finland..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Skiing over the frozen sea in Finland.</image:title><image:caption>Skiing over the frozen sea in Finland.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/me-surrounded-by-plants-waiting-to-be-harvested-for-an-experiment..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Me surrounded by plants waiting to be harvested for an experiment.</image:title><image:caption>Me surrounded by plants waiting to be harvested for an experiment.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/classic-field-gear-to-protect-myself-from-mosquitoes-while-bagging-individual-flowers-in-finland..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Classic field gear to protect myself from mosquitoes while bagging individual flowers in Finland.</image:title><image:caption>Classic field gear to protect myself from mosquitoes while bagging individual flowers in Finland.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-02T09:54:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/08/24/moving-ecology-iain-stott/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image22.jpg</image:loc><image:title>An everyday annoyance of living in Denmark… cycling traffic jams.</image:title><image:caption>An everyday annoyance of living in Denmark… cycling traffic jams.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image3.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Those who know me well know how much I loved and miss the ready availability of both flat whites and fresh coconut water in Australia.</image:title><image:caption>Those who know me well know how much I loved and miss the ready availability of both flat whites and fresh coconut water in Australia.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image1-3.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>My natural habitat, wherever I’ve lived!</image:title><image:caption>My natural habitat, wherever I’ve lived!</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-02T08:32:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/09/01/moving-ecology-yingying-wang/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image3-1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Rabbit in the forests of Finland (photo by Ilze Brila).</image:title><image:caption>Rabbit in the forests of Finland (photo by Ilze Brila).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image2-2.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>image2</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-09-01T08:41:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/08/20/moving-ecology-a-snapshot-of-the-international-academic/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image2-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hugo looking for hidden boxwood seedlings in Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park.</image:title><image:caption>Hugo looking for hidden boxwood seedlings in Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image1-2.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Anna collecting data on bats in Guy Fawkes River National Park in Australia.</image:title><image:caption>Anna collecting data on bats in Guy Fawkes River National Park in Australia.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/anna-and-hugo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Anna and Hugo</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-20T15:43:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/08/17/esther-sebastian-gonzalez-waterbirds-are-also-vital-seed-dispersers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/northern-shovelers.-sandor-borza.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Group of flying Northern shovelers (Spatula clypeata). Northern shovelers have been found to disperse many different seeds via gut passage (Author Sándor Borza)</image:title><image:caption>Group of flying Northern shovelers (Spatula clypeata). Northern shovelers have been found to disperse many different seeds via gut passage (Author Sándor Borza)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/mallards.-nicky-petkov.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Group of male and female mallards (Anas platyrhynchos). Mallards have been found to disperse many different seeds via gut passage (Author: Nicky Petkov)</image:title><image:caption>Group of male and female mallards (Anas platyrhynchos). Mallards have been found to disperse many different seeds via gut passage (Author: Nicky Petkov)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-17T09:53:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/08/12/benjamin-blonder-thermal-ecology-from-deserts-to-mountains/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image6-1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>image6</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image5.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>the first author configuring the camera for data logging in a subalpine meadow.</image:title><image:caption>the first author configuring the camera for data logging in a subalpine meadow.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image4.png</image:loc><image:title>Representative view of the study region.</image:title><image:caption>Representative view of the study region. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image3.png</image:loc><image:title>A thermal image of a meadow analyzed in this study.</image:title><image:caption>A thermal image of a meadow analyzed in this study.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image2-1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Rozi and Sabastian carrying field equipment to the study’s highest-elevation site.</image:title><image:caption>Rozi and Sabastian carrying field equipment to the study’s highest-elevation site.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image1-1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>: Configuring the thermal camera in preparation at dawn in preparation</image:title><image:caption>Configuring the thermal camera in preparation at dawn in preparation </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/benjamin-blonder-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Benjamin Blonder</image:title><image:caption>Benjamin Blonder</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-14T16:39:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/08/14/jo-carpenter-can-introduced-seed-predators-compensate-for-the-loss-of-native-seed-predators-on-islands/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/santalum-paniculatum-seeds-destroyed-by-rats-in-hawaii.-credit-don-drake..jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Santalum paniculatum seeds destroyed by rats in Hawaii. Credit Don Drake.</image:title><image:caption>Santalum paniculatum seeds destroyed by rats in Hawaii. Credit: Don Drake. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/painting-showing-the-extinct-broad-billed-parrot-a-seed-predator-from-the-mascarenes.-credit-julian-hume.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Painting showing the extinct broad-billed parrot, a seed predator from the Mascarenes. Credit Julian Hume</image:title><image:caption>Painting showing the extinct broad-billed parrot, a seed predator from the Mascarenes. Credit: Julian Hume</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jo-carpenter-with-a-kakapo-a-native-seed-predator-endemic-to-new-zealand.-credit-theo-thompson.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Jo Carpenter with a kakapo, a native seed predator endemic to New Zealand. Credit Theo Thompson</image:title><image:caption>Jo Carpenter with a kakapo, a native seed predator endemic to New Zealand. Credit: Theo Thompson</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/hawaiian-palila-a-critically-endangered-seed-predator-that-specialises-on-seeds-of-sophora-chrysophylla.-credit-jack-jeffrey-photography..jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Hawaiian palila, a critically endangered seed predator that specialises on seeds of Sophora chrysophylla. Credit Jack Jeffrey Photography.</image:title><image:caption> 
Hawaiian palila, a critically endangered seed predator that specialises on seeds of Sophora chrysophylla. Credit: Jack Jeffrey Photography. 
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-14T10:18:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/08/10/florian-roth-carbon-coral-and-communities/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image4-1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Dr. Florian Roth. [Photo credit: Yusuf El-Khaled]</image:title><image:caption>Dr. Florian Roth. [Photo credit: Yusuf El-Khaled]</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image3-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Most experiments were conducted directly in the reef (left), while dinitrogen fixation measurements were performed under controlled conditions in the laboratory (right). [Photo credit: Dr. Holger Anlauf (left), Florian Roth (right)]</image:title><image:caption>Most experiments were conducted directly in the reef (left), while dinitrogen fixation measurements were performed under controlled conditions in the laboratory (right). [Photo credit: Dr. Holger Anlauf (left), Florian Roth (right)]</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image2.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Highly diverse coral reef of the central Red Sea, Saudi Arabia. [Photo credit: Florian Roth]</image:title><image:caption>Highly diverse coral reef of the central Red Sea, Saudi Arabia. [Photo credit: Florian Roth] </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Experimental settlement tiles made of calcium carbonate deployed at Abu Shosha reef in the central Red Sea, Saudi Arabia. [Photo credit: Dr. Holger Anlauf]</image:title><image:caption>Experimental settlement tiles made of calcium carbonate deployed at Abu Shosha reef in the central Red Sea, Saudi Arabia. [Photo credit: Dr. Holger Anlauf] </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-07T17:51:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/08/10/laura-garcia-velazquez-evaluating-the-drivers-of-soil-p-pools-in-coastal-ecosystems/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/13619993_1203404433011887_2674439680098687784_n.jpg</image:loc><image:title>13619993_1203404433011887_2674439680098687784_n</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-07T16:05:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/08/07/sarah-donelan-sex-specific-differences-in-prey-response-to-predators/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image3-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>iGreen crabs eat and scare Nucella, but the paper by Donelson et al. shows that male and female Nucella respond differently to green crabs. Photo Credit: Sarah Donelson.</image:title><image:caption>Green crabs eat and scare Nucella, but the paper by Donelson et al. shows that male and female Nucella respond differently to green crabs. Photo Credit: Sarah Donelson.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nucella lapillus snails lay egg capsules in rocky crevices. Male and female snails look the same from the outside. Photo Credit: Sarah Donelson.</image:title><image:caption>Nucella lapillus snails lay egg capsules in rocky crevices. Male and female snails look the same from the outside. Photo Credit: Sarah Donelson.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image1-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Sarah holding her study organism, Nucella lapillus. Photo credit: Chris York.</image:title><image:caption>Sarah holding her study organism, Nucella lapillus. Photo credit: Chris York.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-07T15:51:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/08/07/cathy-cavallo-penguin-derived-cpue-to-monitor-inshore-ecosystems/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image7.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Lovingly crafted "poo pads" ready for deployment in nestboxes and natural burrows. Credit: Cathy Cavallo</image:title><image:caption>Lovingly crafted "poo pads" ready for deployment in nestboxes and natural burrows.
Credit: Cathy Cavallo
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image6.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Precious samples. Little penguin poo sparkles because it is full of tiny fish scales. Credit: Cathy Cavallo</image:title><image:caption>Precious samples. Little penguin poo sparkles because it is full of tiny fish scales.
Credit: Cathy Cavallo
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cathy weighing a penguin chick to monitor growth Credit: Sonia Sánchez</image:title><image:caption>Cathy weighing a penguin chick to monitor growth
Credit: Sonia Sánchez
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image4.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Co-author Sonia Sánchez in one of our beautiful field-sites on Phillip Island. All our monitored burrows are marked out with stakes.  Credit: Cathy Cavallo</image:title><image:caption>Co-author Sonia Sánchez in one of our beautiful field-sites on Phillip Island. All our monitored burrows are marked out with stakes. 
Credit: Cathy Cavallo
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A very young chick yawns while an adult keeps a protective stance above the cardboard 'poo pad' I want to sample.  Credit: Cathy Cavallo</image:title><image:caption>A very young chick yawns while an adult keeps a protective stance above the cardboard 'poo pad' I want to sample. 
Credit: Cathy Cavallo
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image2.png</image:loc><image:title>Poo sampling from a little penguin burrow.  Credit: Cathy Cavallo</image:title><image:caption>Poo sampling from a little penguin burrow. 
Credit: Cathy Cavallo
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>This very healthy penguin chick was a whopping 1.4 kilograms. Chicks usually reach around 800-1100 grams before fledging. Credit: Sonia Sánchez</image:title><image:caption>This very healthy penguin chick was a whopping 1.4 kilograms. Chicks usually reach around 800-1100 grams before fledging.
Credit: Sonia Sánchez
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-07T15:40:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/07/27/ryan-tangney-seed-traits-soil-temperature-and-fire/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ryan-tangney.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ryan Tangney</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ryan-tangney-in-the-field.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ryan Tangney in the field</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-07-31T09:24:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/07/24/shichang-zhang-spiders-detritus-decorations-and-avoiding-predators/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/dr.-shichang-zhang-left-and-his-master-student-zeyuan-hua-right-working-on-cyclosa-monticola-in-the-field.-credit-luyao-chen.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Dr. Shichang Zhang (left) and his master student Zeyuan Hua (right) working on Cyclosa monticola in the field. (credit Luyao Chen)</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cyclosa-monticola-and-its-detritus-decoration-and-a-prey-was-entangled-on-its-web-credit-shichang-zhang..jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Cyclosa monticola and its detritus decoration, and a prey was entangled on its web (credit Shichang Zhang).</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cyclosa-monticola-and-its-detritus-decoration-credit-shichang-zhang.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Cyclosa monticola and its detritus decoration (credit Shichang Zhang)</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-07-24T15:40:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/07/16/anderson-feijo-pika-morphology-reflects-life-at-high-elevations/</loc><lastmod>2020-07-16T10:45:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/07/13/rony-izhar-and-chen-gilboa-childhood-diseases-in-invertebrates/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rony-izhar.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rony Izhar</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rony-izhar-chen-gilboa.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rony Izhar &amp; Chen Gilboa</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/chen-gilboa.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Chen Gilboa</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-07-10T15:12:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/07/10/pierre-gauzere-finding-the-gaps/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image-1.png</image:loc><image:title>Fieldwork in Aspen, Colorado</image:title><image:caption>Fieldwork in Aspen, Colorado </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/asu_grand_canyon.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hiking in Grand Canyon with the Macrosystem Ecology Laboratory</image:title><image:caption>Hiking in Grand Canyon with the Macrosystem Ecology Laboratory </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/asu_bute.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Social time with the lab at ASU mountain (Tempe)</image:title><image:caption>Social time with the lab at ASU mountain (Tempe) </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/asu_assembly.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Assembling the team at Arizona State University</image:title><image:caption>Assembling the team at Arizona State University </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-07-10T14:20:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/06/30/hal-halvorson-living-openly/</loc><lastmod>2020-06-30T16:59:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/06/10/ecology-during-covid-usa/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/lauren.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lauren Hallett</image:title><image:caption>Lauren Hallett</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-09T10:47:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/09/30/getting-a-phd-in-brazil-larissa-sayuri-moreira-sugai/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/a-pond-within-the-barranco-alto-farm-located-in-the-nhecolc3a2ndia-region-of-pantanal.-photo-credit-larissa-s.m.-sugai.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A pond within the Barranco Alto farm, located in the Nhecolândia region of Pantanal. Photo credit Larissa S.M. Sugai.</image:title><image:caption>A pond within the Barranco Alto farm, located in the Nhecolândia region of Pantanal. Photo credit Larissa S.M. Sugai.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/bioacoustic-recording-of-species-advertisement-calls-with-directional-microphones-and-portable-recorders-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bioacoustic recording of species advertisement calls with directional microphones and portable recorders</image:title><image:caption>Bioacoustic recording of species advertisement calls with directional microphones and portable recorders. Anacondas and caimans are fine, mosquitos are the true field enemy.  Photo credit Gabriel N. Souza.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/from-left-to-right-dr.-llusia-larissa-and-dr.-silva-in-silvae28099s-lab.-photo-credit-bianca-darski..jpg</image:loc><image:title>From left to right, Dr. Llusia, Larissa, and Dr. Silva in Silva’s lab. Photo credit Bianca Darski.</image:title><image:caption>From left to right, Dr. Llusia, Larissa, and Dr. Silva in Silva’s lab. Photo credit Bianca Darski. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/anuran-foam-nests-floating-on-a-pond.-photo-credit-larissa-s.-m.-sugai.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Anuran foam nests floating on a pond. Photo credit Larissa S. M. Sugai</image:title><image:caption>Anuran foam nests floating on a pond. Photo credit Larissa: S. M. Sugai</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/aerial-view-of-ponds-with-distinct-environmental-characteristics-within-the-barranco-alto-farm.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Aerial view of ponds with distinct environmental characteristics within the Barranco Alto farm, located at the Nhecolândia region of Pantanal. Photo credit Larissa S. M. Sugai.</image:title><image:caption>Aerial view of ponds with distinct environmental characteristics within the Barranco Alto farm, located at the Nhecolândia region of Pantanal. Photo credit Larissa S. M. Sugai.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/installing-automated-acoustic-recorders-to-monitor-acoustically-active-anurans-in-pantanal.-photo-credit-raul-costa-pereira..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Installing automated acoustic recorders to monitor acoustically active anurans in Pantanal. Photo credit; Raul Costa-Pereira.</image:title><image:caption>Installing automated acoustic recorders to monitor acoustically active anurans in Pantanal. Photo credit; Raul Costa-Pereira.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-19T00:14:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/09/30/getting-a-phd-in-the-usa-brittany-mccall/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/brittany-with-sauger.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brittany with Sauger (Sander canadensis). Photo credit: Dustin Thomas</image:title><image:caption>Brittany with Sauger (Sander canadensis). Photo credit: Dustin Thomas</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/brittany-with-pink-heelsplitter.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brittany with Pink Heelsplitter (Potamilus alatus)  Photo credit:River Watson</image:title><image:caption>Brittany with Pink Heelsplitter (Potamilus alatus)  Photo credit:River Watson</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/brittany-presenting-her-research.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Brittany presenting her research at the Southeastern Fishes Council annual meeting. Photo credit: Brook Fluker</image:title><image:caption>Brittany presenting her research at the Southeastern Fishes Council annual meeting. Photo credit: Brook Fluker</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-09T10:14:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/09/30/introducing-a-new-series-phds-from-around-the-world/</loc><lastmod>2020-06-09T10:14:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/10/01/getting-a-phd-in-norway-mari-a-fjelldal/</loc><lastmod>2020-06-09T10:14:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/10/15/getting-a-phd-in-the-uk-victoria-pattison-willits/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/vicky-taking-measurements-cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Vicky taking measurements cropped</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/vicky-taking-measurements.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo by Andrew Mason -- Vicki taking measurements of chicks. Chicks are fitted with an individually marked British Trust for Ornithology ring, weighed and their tarsus length is measured at about 10 days of age. All of this information is shared in a UK database.</image:title><image:caption>Photo by Andrew Mason -- Vicki taking measurements of chicks. Chicks are fitted with an individually marked British Trust for Ornithology ring, weighed and their tarsus length is measured at about 10 days of age. All of this information is shared in a UK database. 

</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/vicki-checking-on-nest-box.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo by Andrew Mason – Vicki checking a nest box – each nest box is visited once per week.</image:title><image:caption>Photo by Andrew Mason – Vicki checking a nest box – each nest box is visited once per week.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/blue-tit-on-her-nest.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo by Victoria Pattison-Willits ¬-- A female Blue tit on her nest. She will incubate up to 15 eggs for a period of 12-15 days – no mean feat for a bird that weighs 10g and each egg weighs about one tenth her body weight!</image:title><image:caption>Photo by Victoria Pattison-Willits ¬-- A female Blue tit on her nest. She will incubate up to 15 eggs for a period of 12-15 days – no mean feat for a bird that weighs 10g and each egg weighs about one tenth her body weight!</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/blue-tit-chicks.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo by Victoria Pattison-Willits – Blue tit chicks are born naked and blind but develop very quickly, fledging after 19 days in the nest. The wide, bright yellow “gape” helps direct the parents bringing in food! (Age about 5-6 days here).</image:title><image:caption>Photo by Victoria Pattison-Willits – Blue tit chicks are born naked and blind but develop very quickly, fledging after 19 days in the nest. The wide, bright yellow “gape” helps direct the parents bringing in food! (Age about 5-6 days here). 

</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-09T10:14:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/10/01/getting-a-phd-in-australia-max-mallen-cooper/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/max-setting-up-an-experiment.-photo-by-alan-kwok.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Max setting up an experiment. Photo by Alan Kwok</image:title><image:caption>Max setting up an experiment. Photo by Alan Kwok</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/max-mallen-cooper.-photo-by-alan-kwok.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Max Mallen-Cooper. Photo by Alan Kwok</image:title><image:caption>Max Mallen-Cooper. Photo by Alan Kwok</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/max-looking-at-ground-close-up.-photo-by-alan-kwok.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Max looking at ground close-up. Photo by Alan Kwok</image:title><image:caption>Max looking at ground close-up. Photo by Alan Kwok</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/max-in-the-field.-photo-by-dony-indiarto.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Max in the field. Photo by Dony Indiarto</image:title><image:caption>Max in the field. Photo by Dony Indiarto</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/max-in-the-field.-photo-by-alan-kwok.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Max in the field. Photo by Alan Kwok</image:title><image:caption>Max in the field. Photo by Alan Kwok</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-09T10:14:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/10/02/getting-a-phd-in-argentina-ivon-pelliza/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ivon-pelliza-cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivon Pelliza cropped</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ivon-pelliza-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivon Pelliza 4</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ivon-pelliza-4-cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivon Pelliza 4 cropped</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ivon-pelliza-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivon Pelliza 3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ivon-pelliza-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivon Pelliza 1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-09T10:14:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/10/02/gettinga-phd-in-switzerland-nicole-ponta/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/selva2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nicole Ponta</image:title><image:caption>Nicole Ponta</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-22T08:35:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/10/03/getting-a-phd-in-spain-sara-reverte/</loc><lastmod>2020-06-09T10:14:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/10/03/getting-a-phd-in-china-zheng-fu/</loc><lastmod>2020-06-09T10:14:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/10/04/getting-a-phd-in-tanzania-upendo-msalilwa/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/upendo-msalilwa-cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Upendo Msalilwa cropped</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/upendo-msalilwa-measuring-the-diameter-at-breast-height-of-the-baobab-in-kilimanjaro-region-e1570033277915.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Upendo Msalilwa measuring the Diameter at Breast height of the baobab in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania (Photo by Geofrey Soka)</image:title><image:caption>Upendo Msalilwa measuring the Diameter at Breast height of the baobab in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania (Photo by Geofrey Soka)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/upendo-msalilwa-and-field-assistant-assessing-the-baobab-elephant-debarking-e1570033224247.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Upendo Msalilwa and field assistant (Emilian Mayemba) assessing the baobab elephant debarking in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania (Photo by Geofrey Soka).</image:title><image:caption>Upendo Msalilwa and field assistant (Emilian Mayemba) assessing the baobab elephant debarking in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania (Photo by Geofrey Soka).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-09T10:14:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/06/08/ecology-during-covid-spain/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/pilar-hurtados-improvised-laboratory-in-the-bathroom.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pilar Hurtado's improvised laboratory in the bathroom</image:title><image:caption>Pilar Hurtado's improvised laboratory in the bathroom</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/jesc3bas-lc3b3pez-angulo-working-during-the-covid-19-pandemic.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jesús López-Angulo working during the COVID-19 pandemic</image:title><image:caption>Jesús López-Angulo working during the COVID-19 pandemic</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-05T16:11:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/06/05/ecology-during-covid-brazil/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/foto_trabajando.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Talita Amado, sitting at her desk.</image:title><image:caption>Talita Amado, sitting at her desk.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-05T08:31:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/06/10/rafal-zwolak-behaviour-types-in-animal-mediated-seed-dispersal/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/yellow-necked-mouse.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Yellow-necked mouse. These rodents and their interactions with masting trees such as beech and oak are one of the main study subjects in dr. Zwolak’s lab. Photo Credit: Julia &amp; Staszek Pagacz.</image:title><image:caption>Yellow-necked mouse. These rodents and their interactions with masting trees such as beech and oak are one of the main study subjects in dr. Zwolak’s lab. Photo Credit: Julia &amp; Staszek Pagacz. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Beech seedling. Photo Credit: Julia &amp; Staszek Pagacz.</image:title><image:caption>Beech seedling. Photo Credit: Julia &amp; Staszek Pagacz. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Beech forest in Bieszczady Mountains. Photo Credit: Julia &amp; Staszek Pagacz.</image:title><image:caption>Beech forest in Bieszczady Mountains. Photo Credit: Julia &amp; Staszek Pagacz. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bieszczady Mountains. Photo Credit: Julia &amp; Staszek Pagacz.</image:title><image:caption>Bieszczady Mountains. Photo Credit: Julia &amp; Staszek Pagacz. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dr. Rafał Zwolak</image:title><image:caption>Dr. Rafał Zwolak

</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-03T12:46:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/06/08/simone-messina-effects-of-logging-on-stress-levels-of-birds-in-borneo/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/view-of-the-segama-river-and-surrounding-forest-from-the-suspension-bridge-in-the-danum-valley-field-center-sabah-malaysian-borneo.-photo-credit-simone-messina.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>View of the Segama river and surrounding forest from the suspension bridge in the Danum Valley Field Center, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Photo credit Simone Messina</image:title><image:caption>View of the Segama river and surrounding forest from the suspension bridge in the Danum Valley Field Center, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Photo credit Simone Messina</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/the-rufous-collared-kingfisher-actenoides-concretus-is-a-marvelous-uncommon-bird-to-catch-in-the-net.-photo-credit-tanith-hackney-huck..jpeg</image:loc><image:title>The rufous-collared kingfisher (Actenoides concretus) is a marvelous, uncommon bird to catch in the net. Photo credit Tanith Hackney-Huck.</image:title><image:caption>The rufous-collared kingfisher (Actenoides concretus) is a marvelous, uncommon bird to catch in the net. Photo credit Tanith Hackney-Huck.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/setting-up-transects-for-mist-netting.-photo-credit-cindy-cosset..jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Setting-up transects for mist-netting. Photo credit Cindy Cosset.</image:title><image:caption>Setting-up transects for mist-netting. Photo credit Cindy Cosset.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-03T12:18:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/06/04/ana-salgado-butterfly-oviposition-preference-affects-offspring-survival/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image5.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>. In summer 2018, the larvae experienced an extreme dry year, so the few individuals found had little host plants to eat. Photo credit: Ana Salgado</image:title><image:caption>. In summer 2018, the larvae experienced an extreme dry year, so the few individuals found had little host plants to eat. Photo credit: Ana Salgado</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image4.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Larval nests of the Glanville fritillary butterfly. The larvae of the butterfly live in groups and tend to prepare a silk web as nests for overwinter at the end of the summer</image:title><image:caption>Larval nests of the Glanville fritillary butterfly. The larvae of the butterfly live in groups and tend to prepare a silk web as nests for overwinter at the end of the summer. We use such ability of the larvae to locate them in their habitat</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image3.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Typical landscape where the Glanville fritillary butterfly can be found in the Åland islands (Finland). Photo credit: Ana Salgado</image:title><image:caption>Typical landscape where the Glanville fritillary butterfly can be found in the Åland islands (Finland). Photo credit: Ana Salgado</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-03T11:26:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/06/03/ecology-during-covid-in-australia/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/eldridge_home_office_may12.jpg</image:loc><image:title>David Eldridge in his home office</image:title><image:caption>David Eldridge in his home office</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-01T13:12:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/05/29/land-use-biodiversity-and-zoonotic-diseases/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image3.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Capture-Mark-Recapture study in a German forest (© JKI).</image:title><image:caption>Capture-Mark-Recapture study in a German forest (© JKI).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image2-1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Ixodes ricinus female and 8 I. ricinus nymphs (© University of Leipzig).</image:title><image:caption>Ixodes ricinus female and 8 I. ricinus nymphs (© University of Leipzig).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image1-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Collecting ticks from the vegetation using the flagging method (© University of Leipzig).</image:title><image:caption>Collecting ticks from the vegetation using the flagging method (© University of Leipzig).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image4.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) (© JKI).</image:title><image:caption>Bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) (© JKI).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-01T10:47:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/05/29/the-representation-of-women-as-authors-of-submissions-to-ecology-journals-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/chuck-covid-blog-fig-2.png</image:loc><image:title>Chuck covid blog fig 2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/chuck-covid-blog-fig-1.png</image:loc><image:title>Chuck covid blog fig 1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-01T10:45:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/06/01/ecology-during-covid-iran/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/medhi.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mehdi Abedi</image:title><image:caption>Mehdi Abedi </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/khadije.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Khadijah Bahalkeh</image:title><image:caption>Khadijah Bahalkeh </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-06-02T03:27:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/06/02/kechang-niu-a-plants-perspective/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/kechang-niu-photo3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo by Zhenong Jin</image:title><image:caption>Photo by Zhenong Jin</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/kechang-niu-photo1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SONY DSC</image:title><image:caption>SONY DSC</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/fe-niu-photo2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo by Zhongti Wu</image:title><image:caption>Photo by Zhongti Wu</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-05-29T15:03:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/06/01/renato-morais-mass-coral-mortality-affects-energetic-functioning-of-coral-reefs/</loc><lastmod>2020-05-29T10:54:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/05/28/ana-alexandre-seagrass-nutrition-altered-by-ocean-warming/</loc><lastmod>2020-05-28T17:08:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/05/28/keith-sockman-exploring-link-between-latitude-daylight-and-migration/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/keith-sockman.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The author, Keith W. Sockman. Photo by Keith W. Sockman.</image:title><image:caption>The author, Keith W. Sockman. Photo by Keith W. Sockman.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/graphical-abstract.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dynamic, user-interactive animation showing how migratory programme affects photoperiodic schedule. The parameter values reflect the Arctic tern's migratory programme. Screenshot by Keith W. Sockman</image:title><image:caption>Dynamic, user-interactive animation showing how migratory programme affects photoperiodic schedule. The parameter values reflect the Arctic tern's migratory programme. Screenshot by Keith W. Sockman</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/avian-migration.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Daylight availability may play an important role in the evolution of avian migration. Photo by Chinmayee Mishra,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_clear_sunset_view.jpg#filelinks [commons.wikimedia.org]</image:title><image:caption>Daylight availability may play an important role in the evolution of avian migration. Photo by Chinmayee Mishra, 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_clear_sunset_view.jpg#filelinks [commons.wikimedia.org]
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Photo by Peter Hietz.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/p1140715.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Svenja Kleinschmidt. Photo by Peter Hietz.</image:title><image:caption>Svenja Kleinschmidt. Photo by Peter Hietz.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/p1010945.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo by Svenja Kleinschmidt</image:title><image:caption>Photo by Svenja Kleinschmidt</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/p1010640.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo by Svenja Kleinschmidt</image:title><image:caption>Photo by Svenja Kleinschmidt</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-04-29T15:45:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/04/08/yingying-wang-phylogenetic-structure-of-wildlife-assemblages-shapes-patterns-of-infectious-diseases/</loc><lastmod>2020-04-07T16:10:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/04/07/ximeng-li-more-than-iso-anisohydry/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/img_20170313_125533.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20170313_125533</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ximeng-li.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ximeng Li</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ximeng-li-in-the-field.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ximeng Li in the field</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/experiment.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Experiment</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-04-08T02:05:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/03/31/elizabeth-mendoza-variation-in-jumping-power-in-anurans/</loc><lastmod>2020-03-31T15:10:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/03/30/daniel-winkler-mixed-bag-strategies-can-help-plant-species-cope-with-changing-climate/</loc><lastmod>2020-03-30T11:52:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/02/27/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/</loc><lastmod>2020-03-21T04:28:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/03/03/it-seems-that-both-groups-are-picking-the-flowers-when-theyre-feeding-theyre-walking-about-and-you-can-see-them-pick-flower-after-flower-after-flower-after-flower-jurene-kem/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/kemp-00548.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Kemp - 00548</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-03-21T04:28:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/03/16/hindsight-the-heart-of-biologging/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dr.-currie-tagging-rousettus-aegyptiacus-with-heart-rate-accelerometry-and-gps-loggers.-photo-credit-lee-harten.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dr. Currie tagging Rousettus aegyptiacus with heart rate, accelerometry, and GPS loggers. Photo Credit Lee Harten</image:title><image:caption>Dr. Currie tagging Rousettus aegyptiacus with heart rate, accelerometry, and GPS loggers. Photo Credit: Lee Harten</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dr.-currie-releasing-a-rousettus-aegyptiacus-photo-credit-sasha-danilovich.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dr. Currie releasing a Rousettus aegyptiacus Photo credit Sasha Danilovich</image:title><image:caption>Dr. Currie releasing a Rousettus aegyptiacus Photo credit: Sasha Danilovich</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/tagged-desmodus-rotundus-with-a-proximity-logger.-photo-credit-sherri-and-brock-fenton.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tagged Desmodus rotundus with a proximity logger. Photo credit Sherri and Brock Fenton</image:title><image:caption>Tagged Desmodus rotundus with a proximity logger. Photo credit: Sherri and Brock Fenton</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-03-13T16:53:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/03/16/casey-hall-plant-defence-against-insects-in-a-changing-climate/</loc><lastmod>2020-03-12T12:15:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/03/12/jennifer-jones-the-importance-of-bark-decomposition/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/tree-fall-photo-by-jennifer-jones.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tree fall (photo by Jennifer Jones)</image:title><image:caption>Tree fall (photo by Jennifer Jones)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/river-near-field-site-photo-by-jennifer-jones.jpg</image:loc><image:title>River near field site (photo by Jennifer Jones)</image:title><image:caption>River near field site (photo by Jennifer Jones)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/experiment-setup-1-photo-by-jennifer-jones.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Experiment setup 1 (photo by Jennifer Jones)</image:title><image:caption>Experiment setup 1 (photo by Jennifer Jones)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/admiring-some-nearby-fungi-photo-by-astrid-ferrer.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Admiring some nearby fungi (photo by Astrid Ferrer)</image:title><image:caption>Admiring some nearby fungi (photo by Astrid Ferrer)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-03-12T11:48:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/02/25/2019-haldane-prize-shortlist-functional-ecologys-award-for-early-career-researchers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/vol-33-covers.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Vol 33 covers</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-03-03T11:07:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/03/02/joshua-garcia-dynamic-network-modelling-for-microbiome-studies/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/garcia_labphoto.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Joshua Garcia in the lab</image:title><image:caption>Joshua Garcia in the lab</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/garcia_headshot.png</image:loc><image:title>Joshua Garcia</image:title><image:caption>Joshua Garcia</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-03-02T12:08:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/02/26/rafael-dudeque-zenni-co-occuring-invasive-species-leave-a-lingering-impact/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/zanni4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Zanni4</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/zanni3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Zanni3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/zanni2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Zanni2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/zanni1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rafael Dudeque Zenni</image:title><image:caption>Rafael Dudeque Zenni</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-02-27T09:34:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/02/28/caren-pauler-choosy-grazers-why-plants-are-tasty-to-cattle-and-why-highland-cattle-eat-almost-everything/</loc><lastmod>2020-02-25T12:15:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/02/25/frederic-dulude-de-broin-predators-suppress-prey-reproduction-through-chronic-physiological-stress/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/wolf-spotted-near-the-group-of-goats.-credi-frc3a9dc3a9ric-dulude-de-broin.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wolf spotted near the group of goats. Credit: Frédéric Dulude-de Broin</image:title><image:caption>Wolf spotted near the group of goats. Credit: Frédéric Dulude-de Broin</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/wolf-on-the-prowl.-credit-frc3a9dc3a9ric-dulude-de-broin.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wolf on the prowl. Credit Frédéric Dulude-de Broin</image:title><image:caption>Wolf on the prowl. Credit Frédéric Dulude-de Broin</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nanny-number-444-surveys-the-landscape.-credit-frc3a9dc3a9ric-dulude-de-broin.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nanny number 444 surveys the landscape. Credit Frédéric Dulude-de Broin</image:title><image:caption>Nanny number 444 surveys the landscape. Credit Frédéric Dulude-de Broin</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/my-favorite-goat-nanny-number-418-behind-a-rock.-credit-frc3a9dc3a9ric-dulude-de-broin.jpg</image:loc><image:title>My favorite goat, nanny number 418 behind a rock. Credit Frédéric Dulude-de Broin</image:title><image:caption>My favorite goat, nanny number 418 behind a rock. Credit Frédéric Dulude-de Broin</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-02-24T17:23:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/02/24/monique-weemstra-building-better-model-trees-from-the-root-up/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/weemstra-model-tree.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Weemstra Model tree</image:title><image:caption>Weemstra Model tree</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/weemstra-hollandse-hout-study-site.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hollandse Hout study site</image:title><image:caption>Hollandse Hout study site</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/monique-weemstra-pico-de-orizaba.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Monique Weemstra - Pico de Orizaba</image:title><image:caption>Monique Weemstra - Pico de Orizaba</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-02-24T17:11:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/02/21/martin-luerhmann-evolution-of-colour-vision-in-coral-reef-fishes/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/view-from-the-beach-at-lizard-island-research-station-northern-great-barrier-reef-australia.-photo-by-martin-luehrmann..png</image:loc><image:title>View from the beach at Lizard Island Research Station, Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Photo by Martin Luehrmann.</image:title><image:caption>View from the beach at Lizard Island Research Station, Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Photo by Martin Luehrmann.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/martin-boating-in-northern-moreton-bay-australia.-photo-courtesy-of-dr.-martyna-grabowska..png</image:loc><image:title>Martin boating in Northern Moreton Bay, Australia. Photo courtesy of Dr. Martyna Grabowska.</image:title><image:caption>Martin boating in Northern Moreton Bay, Australia. Photo courtesy of Dr. Martyna Grabowska.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/aerial-view-of-the-lagoon-reef-at-lizard-island-where-martin-conducted-his-fieldwork.-photo-by-martin-luehrmann..png</image:loc><image:title>Aerial view of the lagoon reef at Lizard Island where Martin conducted his fieldwork. Photo by Martin Luehrmann.</image:title><image:caption>Aerial view of the lagoon reef at Lizard Island where Martin conducted his fieldwork. Photo by Martin Luehrmann.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/five-line-cardinalfish-cheilodipterus-quinquelineatus-hovering-between-tips-of-branching-coral-at-lizard-island-northern-great-barrier-reef-australia.-photo-courtesy-of-prof.-justin-mars.png</image:loc><image:title>Five-line cardinalfish (Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus) hovering between tips of branching coral at Lizard Island, Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Photo courtesy of Prof. Justin Marshall</image:title><image:caption>Five-line cardinalfish (Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus) hovering between tips of branching coral at Lizard Island, Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Photo courtesy of Prof. Justin Marshall</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cardinalfishes-of-the-genera-zoramia-and-taeniamia-above-and-between-branching-coral-at-lizard-island-northern-great-barrier-reef-australia.-photo-by-martin-luehrmann.png</image:loc><image:title>Cardinalfishes of the genera Zoramia and Taeniamia above and between branching coral at Lizard Island, Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Photo by Martin Luehrmann</image:title><image:caption>Cardinalfishes of the genera Zoramia and Taeniamia above and between branching coral at Lizard Island, Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Photo by Martin Luehrmann</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-02-24T11:29:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/02/07/shanwen-sun-surviving-drought/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/shanwen-sun.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Shanwen Sun</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/img_1268.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_1268</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-02-07T17:27:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/02/04/olle-lindestad-duration-of-diapause-in-butterflies/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/picture4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>One of the sampling sites used by Olle and colleagues; a typical P. aegeria habitat in southern Sweden (photo by Olle Lindestad).</image:title><image:caption>One of the sampling sites used by Olle and colleagues; a typical P. aegeria habitat in southern Sweden (photo by Olle Lindestad).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/picture3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>An assortment of P. aegeria pupae (photo by Olle Lindestad).</image:title><image:caption>An assortment of P. aegeria pupae (photo by Olle Lindestad).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/picture2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>An adult male P. aegeria in the lab (photo by Olle Lindestad).</image:title><image:caption>An adult male P. aegeria in the lab (photo by Olle Lindestad).</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/picture1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Olle, holding a container with a Pararge aegeria pupa (photo by Matthew Nielsen).</image:title><image:caption>Olle, holding a container with a Pararge aegeria pupa (photo by Matthew Nielsen).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-02-06T10:04:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/01/31/julia-boyle-adaptive-plasticity-and-habitat-choice-affects-performance-of-the-ambush-bug/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/picture4.png</image:loc><image:title>An ambush bug looks out from the tip of a blooming goldenrod. Individuals preferred goldenrod over Queen Anne’s Lace in lab habitat choice trials. Credit: Julia Boyle</image:title><image:caption>An ambush bug looks out from the tip of a blooming goldenrod. Individuals preferred goldenrod over Queen Anne’s Lace in lab habitat choice trials. Credit: Julia Boyle </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/picture3.png</image:loc><image:title>An ambush bug waits on the petals of a Black-Eyed Susan. Its colour is a similar yellow to the petals, increasing the likelihood it will catch unsuspecting prey. Credit: Julia Boyle</image:title><image:caption>An ambush bug waits on the petals of a Black-Eyed Susan. Its colour is a similar yellow to the petals, increasing the likelihood it will catch unsuspecting prey. Credit: Julia Boyle</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/picture-2.png</image:loc><image:title>An ambush bug waits atop the head of Queen Anne’s Lace for potential prey. Its body colour closely resembles the white colour of its chosen flower habitat. Credit: Julia Boyle</image:title><image:caption>An ambush bug waits atop the head of Queen Anne’s Lace for potential prey. Its body colour closely resembles the white colour of its chosen flower habitat. Credit: Julia Boyle </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/julia-boyle.png</image:loc><image:title>Julia Boyle</image:title><image:caption>Julia Boyle wearing a t-shirt with the logo for her field station, the Koffler Scientific Reserve.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-01-31T16:09:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/01/31/talia-stelling-wood-alternative-approaches-to-community-ecology/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/tsw_fieldwork.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TSW_fieldwork</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/algal-habitat.jpg</image:loc><image:title>algal habitat</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-01-31T15:41:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/01/23/santiago-soliveres-and-david-j-eldridge-biocrust-communities-beneath-and-outside/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/davidsanti.jpg</image:loc><image:title>David &amp; Santi</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/crust_1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo credit: David Eldridge.</image:title><image:caption>Photo credit: David Eldridge.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-01-28T10:11:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/01/15/moshe-zaguri-do-prey-use-safety-cues-to-assess-risk/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/field-site-e28093-four-cameras-at-dawn-filming-the-isopods-behaviour-upon-living-their-burrow-to-forage.-.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Field site – Four cameras at dawn, filming the isopods behaviour upon living their burrow to forage.</image:title><image:caption>Field site – Four cameras at dawn, filming the isopods behaviour upon living their burrow to forage.  </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/scorpion-e28093-golden-israeli-scorpion-feeding-on-isopod-on-the-mound-outside-its-burrow..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Scorpion – Golden Israeli scorpion feeding on isopod on the mound outside its burrow.</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/moshe-zaguri.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Moshe Zaguri</image:title><image:caption>Moshe Zaguri</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/isopod-family-e28093-isopod-siblings-returning-to-their-burrow-after-foraging..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Isopod family – Isopod siblings returning to their burrow after foraging.</image:title><image:caption>Isopod family – Isopod siblings returning to their burrow after foraging.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/isopod-e28093-a-desert-isopod-feeding-on-soil-crust.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Isopod – A desert Isopod feeding on soil crust</image:title><image:caption>Isopod – A desert Isopod feeding on soil crust</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-01-15T16:26:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/01/08/javier-del-campo-microbiomes-are-more-than-bacteria-unveiling-the-eukaryome/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/water.jpg</image:loc><image:title>water</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/javier-del-campo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Javier del Campo</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-01-08T10:55:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2020/01/06/simone-fontana-decomposition-and-division-of-labour/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/microcosm_credit-simone-fontana.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Microcosm_Credit Simone Fontana</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image3_20170927_credit-marco-moretti.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Image3_20170927_Credit Marco Moretti</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image2_20170926_credit-marco-moretti.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Image2_20170926_Credit Marco Moretti</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image1_20170926_credit-marco-moretti.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Image1_20170926_Credit Marco Moretti</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-01-06T16:40:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/12/20/maxwell-helmberger-microplastics-in-ecology/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/66623684_10216354152464559_4937711746006646784_n_10216354152424558.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Maxwell Helmberger</image:title><image:caption>Maxwell Helmberger</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-12-20T15:18:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/09/02/2295/</loc><lastmod>2019-12-16T10:03:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/12/10/carlos-bustos%e2%80%90segura-do-herbivore-parasitoids-help-plant-fitness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_2141-cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_2141 cropped</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/carlos-bustose28090segura.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Carlos Bustos‐Segura</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ap1100145-cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>aP1100145 cropped</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ap1100119-cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>aP1100119 cropped</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/aimg_2140-cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>aIMG_2140 cropped</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-12-09T12:50:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/12/09/jennifer-rudgers-answers-from-long-term-data-in-the-drylands/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/yucca-june-2019.-photo-by-jennifer-rudger.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Yucca June 2019. Photo by Jennifer Rudger</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/jennrudgerssev3-photo-by-kate-cunningham.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jenn Rudgers SEV3 - photo by Kate Cunningham</image:title><image:caption>Jenn Rudgers SEV3 - photo by Kate Cunningham</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-12-09T11:43:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/12/09/anna-abrahao-rocks-roots-and-resiliance/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Anna Abrahao in the campos rupestres.</image:title><image:caption>Anna Abrahao in the campos rupestres. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-12-09T11:28:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/12/06/hugo-saiz-looking-forward-to-2019-bes-annual-meeting-in-belfast/</loc><lastmod>2019-12-06T11:14:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/12/03/sam-bashevkin-defense-trade-offs-for-tiny-plankton-in-the-big-sea/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/zoea-1-larva-of-the-crab.jpg</image:loc><image:title>zoea 1 larva of the crab Pachygrapsus crassipes.</image:title><image:caption>zoea 1 larva of the crab Pachygrapsus crassipes. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/zoea-1-larva-of-the-crab-hemigrapsus-oregonensis.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A mostly transparent and a more pigmented plankter. Left: zoea 1 larva of the crab Hemigrapsus oregonensis.</image:title><image:caption>A mostly transparent and a more pigmented plankter. Left: zoea 1 larva of the crab Hemigrapsus oregonensis. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/the-galeta-marine-laboratory..jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Galeta Marine Laboratory.</image:title><image:caption>The Galeta Marine Laboratory.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/the-diversity-of-larval-crab-pigments.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The diversity of larval crab pigments, defensive spines, and sizes (all photos to same scale). Left: Pugettia producta; top right: Cyclograpsus integer; middle: Minuca rapax; bottom right: Cataleptodius floridanus.</image:title><image:caption>The diversity of larval crab pigments, defensive spines, and sizes (all photos to same scale). Left: Pugettia producta; top right: Cyclograpsus integer; middle: Minuca rapax; bottom right: Cataleptodius floridanus.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/sam-bashevkin.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Sam Bashevkin</image:title><image:caption>Sam Bashevkin</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/juvenile-crepidula-fornicata..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Juvenile Crepidula fornicata.</image:title><image:caption>Juvenile Crepidula fornicata. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/gravid-egg-carrying-land-crab-gecarcinus-ruricola..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Gravid (egg-carrying) land crab Gecarcinus ruricola.</image:title><image:caption>Gravid (egg-carrying) land crab Gecarcinus ruricola.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-12-03T17:30:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/11/18/ari-friedlaender-feeding-behaviour-and-energetic-gains-of-fin-whales/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/motion-sensing-tag-deployed-on-a-fin-whale-off-of-catalina-island-california.-photo-credit-ari-friedlaender-collected-under-nmfs-permit.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Motion-sensing tag deployed on a fin whale off of Catalina Island, California. Photo credit Ari Friedlaender, collected under NMFS permit</image:title><image:caption>Motion-sensing tag deployed on a fin whale off of Catalina Island, California. Photo credit Ari Friedlaender, collected under NMFS permit</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ari-friedlaender-deploying-a-motion-sensing-tag-on-a-humpabck-whale-in-the-north-atlantic.-photo-credit-mason-weinrich-collected-under-nmfs-permit..jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ari Friedlaender deploying a motion-sensing tag on a humpabck whale in the North Atlantic. photo credit Mason Weinrich, collected under NMFS permit.</image:title><image:caption>Ari Friedlaender deploying a motion-sensing tag on a humpabck whale in the North Atlantic. photo credit Mason Weinrich, collected under NMFS permit.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-11-15T16:38:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/11/04/carlos-martinez-nunez-interaction-networks-agricultural-management-and-landscape/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/organic-olive-orchard-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Organic olive orchard (1)</image:title><image:caption>Organic olive orchard</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/complex-landscape-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Complex landscape (1)</image:title><image:caption>Complex landscape</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/martinez.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Carlos Martínez-Núñez</image:title><image:caption>Carlos Martínez-Núñez</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-10-31T14:11:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/10/31/kristen-ellis-cause-specific-mortality-of-avian-nests/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/kristen-ellis-cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Kristen Ellis cropped</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/kristen-ellis.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Kristen Ellis at one of her study sites in western Utah.</image:title><image:caption>Kristen Ellis at one of her study sites in western Utah.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/snowy-plover.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A female snowy plover with a newly hatched chick in the nest cup. Chicks leave the nest within hours after hatching.</image:title><image:caption>A female snowy plover with a newly hatched chick in the nest cup. Chicks leave the nest within hours after hatching.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/kit-fox.png</image:loc><image:title>A kit fox consuming snowy plover eggs. Remote cameras allowed for the identification of nest predators.</image:title><image:caption>A kit fox consuming snowy plover eggs. Remote cameras allowed for the identification of nest predators.  </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-10-31T12:06:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/10/23/abigail-kimmitt-seasonal-sympatry-and-timing-of-reproduction-in-dark-eyed-juncos/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/side-by-side-photo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A side-by-side comparison of a migrant (left) and a resident (right) dark-eyed junco. One distinguishable difference between the subspecies is bill coloration: migrants have a pink bill whereas residents have a blue-gray bill. Photo from Adam Fudickar.</image:title><image:caption>A side-by-side comparison of a migrant (left) and a resident (right) dark-eyed junco. One distinguishable difference between the subspecies is bill coloration: migrants have a pink bill whereas residents have a blue-gray bill. Photo from Adam Fudickar. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/figure.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Time line of seasonal sympatry between migrant and resident juncos. Migrants are found breeding in the boreal forests of Canada and Alaska (orange range), whereas resident are found year round in the Appalachian Mountains (blue range). In the Appalachian Mountains, migrants and residents can be found in seasonal sympatry in winter and early spring.   Figure modified from Fudickar et al 2016, originally designed by Jonathan Atwell.</image:title><image:caption>Time line of seasonal sympatry between migrant and resident juncos. Migrants are found breeding in the boreal forests of Canada and Alaska (orange range), whereas resident are found year round in the Appalachian Mountains (blue range). In the Appalachian Mountains, migrants and residents can be found in seasonal sympatry in winter and early spring.  
Figure modified from Fudickar et al 2016, originally designed by Jonathan Atwell. 
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/abigail-kimmitt-right.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Abby Kimmitt hold a female resident junco at her field site near University of Virginia’s Mountain Lake Biological Station in Pembroke, VA.  Photo Credit: Kaitlin Alford.</image:title><image:caption>Abby Kimmitt hold a female resident junco at her field site near University of Virginia’s Mountain Lake Biological Station in Pembroke, VA.  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flowers</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/females-fighting.jpg</image:loc><image:title>females fighting</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ecology-in-action-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun (left)</image:title><image:caption>Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun (left)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ecology-in-action.jpg</image:loc><image:title>An ecologist at work!</image:title><image:caption>An ecologist at work!</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-10-17T16:49:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/04/30/warming-increases-the-cost-of-growth/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Diego hiking in New Zealand (holding a chunk of snow after seeing snow for the first time!)</image:title><image:caption>Diego hiking in New Zealand (holding a chunk of snow after seeing snow for the first time!)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Plot: Relationship between cost of growth and efficiency of energy transfer for an active young adult following the theory in Barneche &amp; Allen (2018).</image:title><image:caption>Plot: Relationship between cost of growth and efficiency of energy transfer for an active young adult following the theory in Barneche &amp; Allen (2018).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-04-30T15:51:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/04/12/scientific-publishing-today-bias-tools-and-some-thoughts-from-an-associate-editor/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/matthias-schleuning-ae.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Matthias Schleuning (right)</image:title><image:caption>Matthias Schleuning (right)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-04-18T13:31:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/04/05/mountains-mice-and-the-impacts-of-infections/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/on-a-mountain.jpg</image:loc><image:title>On a mountain</image:title><image:caption>On a mountain</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/infected-deer-mouse.png</image:loc><image:title>Infected deer mouse</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/deer-mouse-eating-750.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Deer mouse eating</image:title><image:caption>Deer mouse eating</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/luke-wilde750.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Luke Wilde</image:title><image:caption>Luke Wilde</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-04-05T12:21:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/12/20/12-months-in-ecology-a-reading-list-from-bes2018/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DuxKl_yW4AAfpH2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ken Thompson presenting 12 Months of Ecology</image:title><image:caption>Ken Thompson presenting 12 Months of Ecology</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-04-04T10:44:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/09/13/32-09-behind-the-cover/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-functional_ecology-32x09.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2018-Functional_Ecology-32x09</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-07T17:01:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/10/04/32-10-behind-the-cover/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/32x10-2018-functional_ecology-750.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cover for issue 32x10 of Functional_Ecology</image:title><image:caption>Cover for issue 32x10 of Functional_Ecology</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-07T17:01:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/11/22/32-11-behind-the-cover/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-functional_ecolog32x11y.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2018-Functional_Ecolog32x11y</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-07T17:01:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/01/29/january-round-up/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1365-2435.13155cover.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1365-2435.13155cover</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-07T17:00:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/02/28/february-round-up/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/1365-2435.13157.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1365-2435.13157</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-07T17:00:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/03/06/telomere-length-and-super-albatrosses/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/angelier-00677-henri-weimerskirch.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Albatross. Photo by Henri Weimerskirch.</image:title><image:caption>Albatross. Photo by Henri Weimerskirch.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/pierre-blc3a9vin-7-sur-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Frédéric Angelier</image:title><image:caption>Frédéric Angelier</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-05T14:37:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/03/05/tail-clipped-tadpoles-result-in-shorter-limbed-metamorphs/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/toadlet.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Toadlet</image:title><image:caption>Toadlet</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tadpole.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tadpole</image:title><image:caption>Tadpole</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dr.-francisco-javier-zamora-camacho.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dr. Francisco Javier Zamora-Camacho</image:title><image:caption>Dr. Francisco Javier Zamora-Camacho</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/zamora-camach-00069.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Zamora-Camach - 00069</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-05T11:10:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/02/25/going-to-extremes/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/study-area-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Study area</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/experimental-apparatus.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Experimental apparatus</image:title><image:caption>Experimental apparatus</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/fangyue-zhang.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fangyue Zhang</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/experiment-set-up.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Experiment setup</image:title><image:caption>Experiment setup </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-02-25T17:29:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/02/06/fruit-eating-birds-can-leave-their-signature-on-regenerating-tropical-plant-communities/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/study-area.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Study Area</image:title><image:caption>Study Area</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/grey-kingbird-eating-fruit-of-cupania-americana.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Grey kingbird eating fruit of Cupania americana</image:title><image:caption>Grey kingbird eating fruit of Cupania americana</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/grey-kingbird-carrying-a-fruit-of-cupania-americana.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Grey kingbird carrying a fruit of Cupania americana</image:title><image:caption>Grey kingbird carrying a fruit of Cupania americana</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/experimental-plot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Experimental plot</image:title><image:caption>Experimental plot</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/aarc3b3n-gonzc3a1lez.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Aarón González‐Castro</image:title><image:caption>Aarón González‐Castro</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-02-06T11:54:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/02/01/first-principles-of-physics-predict-predator-prey-size-ratios/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/sebastien_portalier.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sebastien_portalier</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/portalier-00423-graphical-abstract-white_shark.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Great white shark at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico, August 2006. Shot with Nikon D70s in Ikelite housing, in natural light. Animal estimated at 11-12 feet (3.3 to 3.6 m) in length, age unknown (source Wikipedia Commons).</image:title><image:caption>Great white shark at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico, August 2006. Shot with Nikon D70s in Ikelite housing, in natural light. Animal estimated at 11-12 feet (3.3 to 3.6 m) in length, age unknown (source Wikipedia Commons).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-01-29T16:08:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2019/01/25/insight-what-dictates-when-a-nestling-leaves-the-nest/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/study-site750.jpg</image:loc><image:title>study site750</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/seven-day-old-nestling750.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Seven day-old nestling</image:title><image:caption>Seven day-old nestling</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/lark-nest-in-the-snow750.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lark nest in the snow750</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/female-hola750.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Female Horned Lark</image:title><image:caption>Female Horned Lark</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/devin-de-zwaan.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Devin De Zwaan</image:title><image:caption>Devin De Zwaan</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/de-zwaan-00874-horned_lark_nestlings.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Horned lark nestlings</image:title><image:caption>Horned lark nestlings. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-01-25T15:39:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/12/14/offspring-pay-the-price-when-their-parents-overheat/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/BlueTit.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Blue tit nestling at two weeks of age.</image:title><image:caption>Blue tit nestling at two weeks of age.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/stjmesANo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Andreas Nord. Photo by Henrik Högström</image:title><image:caption>Andreas Nord. Photo by Henrik Högström</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/bluetit-female-after-feather-clipping.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bluetit female after feather clipping</image:title><image:caption>Blue tit female before feather clipping.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/blue-tit-female-before-feather-clipping-.jpg</image:loc><image:title>blue tit female before feather clipping</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/adult-male-blue-tit-with-PIT-tag.jpg</image:loc><image:title>adult male blue tit with PIT tag</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-12-14T15:37:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/12/11/meet-the-sig-tropical-ecology-special-interest-group/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/tropical-ecology_cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tropical-Ecology_Cropped</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/te-sig1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TE SIG1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/te-sig2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TE SIG2</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-12-11T14:39:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/12/11/looking-forward-to-bes2018-julia-koricheva/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/juliakoricheva.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Julia Koricheva</image:title><image:caption>Julia Koricheva</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-12-11T11:22:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/12/10/meet-the-sig-plant-environmental-physiology-group/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pepg-eden.png</image:loc><image:title>PEPG - EDEN</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pepg-banner-e1544437022187.jpg</image:loc><image:title>PEPG banner</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-12-10T11:52:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/10/19/hindsight-tackling-pattern-scale-and-independence-to-ensure-ecosystem-models-are-predictive/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/fig1f.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The ideal situation for block cross-validation where a large sample spans the predictive space, and structure in the observations can be used to tease out more-independent data folds.  In practice, the independence achieved through blocking is often difficult to assess.</image:title><image:caption>The ideal situation for block cross-validation where a large sample spans the predictive space, and structure in the observations can be used to tease out more-independent data folds.  In practice, the independence achieved through blocking is often difficult to assess. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/fig1d.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cross-validation applied to an independent sample. Our analysis suggests that in this case block cross-validation is no better than random cross-validation.</image:title><image:caption>Cross-validation applied to an independent sample. Our analysis suggests that in this case block cross-validation is no better than random cross-validation.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/fig1e.jpg</image:loc><image:title>When applied to a larger sample of observations with a detectable structure (red divisions), block cross-validation could produce independent data folds that improve the confidence in measures of forecast skill.</image:title><image:caption>When applied to a larger sample of observations with a detectable structure (red divisions), block cross-validation could produce independent data folds that improve the confidence in measures of forecast skill.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/fig1c.jpg</image:loc><image:title>he ideal situation for independent data evaluation, where multiple sets of independent observations span the entire predictive space are available.</image:title><image:caption>he ideal situation for independent data evaluation, where multiple sets of independent observations span the entire predictive space are available. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/fig1b.jpg</image:loc><image:title>When an independent sample is available it provides an estimate of forecast skill, but if not sufficiently representative of the predictive space, it will limit the contexts to which the forecast applies.</image:title><image:caption>When an independent sample is available it provides an estimate of forecast skill, but if not sufficiently representative of the predictive space, it will limit the contexts to which the forecast applies. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/fig1a.jpg</image:loc><image:title>A typical approach to modelling with a single sample. The data are partitioned into a training and a testing data set. This allows tests of model fit (internal validation) but gives no insight on the model’s forecast skill.</image:title><image:caption>A typical approach to modelling with a single sample. The data are partitioned into a training and a testing data set. This allows tests of model fit (internal validation) but gives no insight on the model’s forecast skill.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/kceg-fig1.png</image:loc><image:title>Figure 1: Illustration of how different training and testing strategies influence the independence and representativity of the training (blue) and testing (red) datasets. Each box represents the extents of the multidimensional predictive space (e.g., space and time). Ellipses represent sets of observations (i.e., patterns) collected for particular ecological contexts (e.g., a particular place and time).</image:title><image:caption>Figure 1: Illustration of how different training and testing strategies influence the independence and representativity of the training (blue) and testing (red) datasets. Each box represents the extents of the multidimensional predictive space (e.g., space and time). Ellipses represent sets of observations (i.e., patterns) collected for particular ecological contexts (e.g., a particular place and time). </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-10-19T13:03:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://functionalecologists.com/2018/10/10/genetic-diversity-a-poor-cousin-of-species-diversity/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/uady-experiment-photo-by-luis-abdala-roberts.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Species polyculture in the UADY tree diversity experiment, Yucatan, Mexico. Photo by Luis Abdala-Roberts.</image:title><image:caption>Species polyculture in the UADY tree diversity experiment, Yucatan, Mexico. Photo by Luis Abdala-Roberts.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://functionalecologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1200px-choux_02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cauliflower, Brussel sprout, green cabbage, broccoli and kohlrabi are all cultivars of the same plant species, Brassica oleracea and a result of artificial selection for either leaves, stems, buds or flowers. Attribution: Coyau / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0</image:title><image:caption> Cauliflower, Brussel sprout, green cabbage, broccoli and kohlrabi are all cultivars of the same plant species, Brassica oleracea and a result of artificial selection for either leaves, stems, buds or flowers. 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Sphagnum, the start of peat, Deerpark (Magheraghanrush), Calry, Co. Leitrim
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Credit: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

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