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Caren Pauler enjoys working with cattle, especially in the harsh environmental conditions of her study area in the Swiss Alps (photo by Manuel Schneider).
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Caren Pauler: Choosy grazers (Why plants are tasty to cattle and why Highland cattle eat almost everything)

Caren Pauler enjoys working with cattle, especially in the harsh environmental conditions of her study area in the Swiss Alps (photo by Manuel Schneider).
Caren Pauler enjoys working with cattle, especially in the harsh environmental conditions of her study area in the Swiss Alps (photo by Manuel Schneider).

Caren Pauler is currently a Ph.D. student at Agroscope in Zürich and the Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg. Caren will be defending her PhD this July. In this insight, Caren discusses with us her article “Choosy grazers: Influence of plant traits on forage selection by three cattle breeds” and how her interest in ecology was shaped.

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Carlos Martínez-Núñez
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Carlos Martínez-Núñez: Interaction networks, agricultural management and landscape

Carlos Martínez-Núñez
Carlos Martínez-Núñez

Carlos Martínez-Núñez, a PhD candidate at the University of Jaen, tells us about his paper “Interacting effects of landscape and management on plant–solitary bee networks in olive orchard”, why this paper is potentially important for policy makers, and why working with others is one of the best things you can do as an ecologist.

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