Netta Shamir Weller: Nutritional Choices in Face of Danger: Insights from Desert Snails

In this post, author Netta Shamir Weller offers desert snail survival tips by exploring their dietary choices when faced with predation stress. With their behind the paper post for their article “Constraints and demands interact to affect prey dietary reaction to predation”, Netta shares how fascinating and unpredictable nature can be when looking at predator-prey interactions and reiterates the importance of doing what you love. … Continue reading Netta Shamir Weller: Nutritional Choices in Face of Danger: Insights from Desert Snails

Xibin Sun: A global synthesis of nutrient resorption control in terrestrial plants

In this new post, Xibin Sun—a PhD candidate at Sun Yat-sen University, China—presents his work ‘Widespread controls of leaf nutrient resorption by nutrient limitation and stoichiometry’. Xibin discusses were the idea for this study came from and the joys of working in and around nature. About the paper Leaf nutrient resorption is a process by which plants relocate nutrients from senescing leaves to other living … Continue reading Xibin Sun: A global synthesis of nutrient resorption control in terrestrial plants