Tag: intraspecific variation

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Valentin Graf: The importance of individual behavior for bird-mediated seed dispersal

In our latest post Valentin Graf, PhD student at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, presents his work ‘Individual behavior shapes patterns of bird-mediated seed dispersal’. He discusses the importance of moving from species to individual scale in ecology, shares how he overcame setbacks at the beginning of the research project, and shows how leaving the ground can help doing fieldwork.  About … Continue reading Valentin Graf: The importance of individual behavior for bird-mediated seed dispersal

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Camila Madeiros: What are you doing in a place like this? Connecting plants’ climate preferences with functional traits

Camila Medeiros—a post-doc at University of California Los Angeles, USA—presents her work ‘Predicting plant species climate preferences on the basis of mechanistic traits’. She discusses the connection between traits and niches, shows how to do ecology with small budgets, and highlights the need to transfer scientific knowledge to general audiences. About the paper By using mechanistic traits, our paper improves the ability to predict plant … Continue reading Camila Madeiros: What are you doing in a place like this? Connecting plants’ climate preferences with functional traits

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Kimberley Lemmen: Surprise! Rapid heritable adaptation can occur without initial standing genetic variation

In this new post, Kimberley Lemmen—a post-doc working at the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland—discusses her paper: Experimental evidence of rapid heritable adaptation in the absence of initial standing genetic variation—recently shortlisted for the 2022 Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers. About the paper Environmental change presents a fundamental challenge to populations because the traits that previously allowed individuals to grow, survive, and reproduce may … Continue reading Kimberley Lemmen: Surprise! Rapid heritable adaptation can occur without initial standing genetic variation

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