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Francois-Xavier Joly: decomposition, detritivores and filling in the gaps.

FXJolyDr Francois-Xavier Joly  is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He was recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers.

 In this Insight, he talks about his shortlisted paper, Litter conversion into detritivore faeces reshuffles the quality control over C and N dynamics during decomposition, as well the best – and worst – parts of being an ecologist.

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Corinne Hertäg
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Corinne Hertäg: sharing the costs – and benefits – of defensive symbionts

Corinne Hertäg

Corinne Hertäg is a PhD student at ETH Zürich. She was recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers.

In this Insight, she talks about her shortlisted paper, Defensive symbionts mediate species coexistence in phytophagous insects

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“The main thing we want to do is more long-term experiments…” New podcast episode with Ken Thompson and Rannveig Jacobsen

New Podcast! Ken Thompson talks to Rannveig Jacobsen (recently shortlisted for the Haldane prize) about the influence of insects on decomposer fungi. You can read all the shortlisted papers here. Continue reading “The main thing we want to do is more long-term experiments…” New podcast episode with Ken Thompson and Rannveig Jacobsen

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Nadescha Zwerschke in the field.
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Nadescha Zwerschke – a new angle on oyster competition

Nadescha Zwerschke is a benthic ecologist with the British Antarctic Survey. She was recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers. In this Insight, she talks about her shortlisted paper, Competition between co‐occurring invasive and native consumers switches between habitats   Oyster vs Oyster In Europe, the native oyster is declining due to overfishing and habitat destruction, effectively extirpating it from intertidal … Continue reading Nadescha Zwerschke – a new angle on oyster competition

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