Vinícius Brito | When bats run out of room for pollen – Functional Ecologists

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Vinícius Brito – a professor at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil – disucusses the article “Pollen landscape saturation on pollinator bodies…

Paul Huber | Better together: Do siblings help each other cope with environmental stress? – Functional Ecologists

In this ‘Behind the paper’ blog post, author Paul Huber – a PhD student at the University of Bayreuth, Germany – discusses his article “Context-dependent joint buffering of abiotic stress…

Dave Daversa | Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infections proliferate during amphibian terrestrial dormancy – Functional Ecologists

In this ‘Behind the Paper blog post, author Dave Daversa discusses his recently published article “Fungal Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) infections proliferate during amphibian terrestrial dormancy“. Dave shares how he and…

Por trás do artigo | Lussarina Oliveira Lima – Functional Ecologists

Sobre o artigo O nosso trabalho sobre é mortalidade de plantas durante a seca, focando nos mecanismos fisiológicos subjacentes e nos limiares que levam a mortalidade. Como estes limiares variam…

Hannah Carle | Trait variation driven by tree size more than environment and shows limited translation to species vital rates – Functional Ecologists

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Hannah Carle – a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University – discusses the article “Trait…

Li Zhang | More than a fertilizer: How nitrogen changes coexistence between wheat and weeds  – Functional Ecologists

In this blog post, author Li Zhang – a an Associate Professor at Nanjing Forestry University – discusses the paper “Nitrogen fertilization promotes wheat–weed coexistence through niche differentiation and fitness…

Analisa Lazaro-Côté | Predictors of thermal thresholds in climate-impacted fish – Functional Ecologists

In our latest ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Analisa Lazaro-Côté – a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba – discusses the article “Transcriptional breakpoints as predictors of thermal…

Bálint Üveges | No gain from pain: European viper venoms did not evolve for self-defence – Functional Ecologists

In this blog post, author Bálint Üveges discusses the paper “No gain from pain: Lack of nociceptor activation suggests no adaptation for defence in the evolution of European viper venoms“,…

Edith Singini | Grasses are key to building hidden carbon stores in savannas – Functional Ecologists

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ post, author Edith Singini – a plant ecophysiologist in the Department of Botany at Rhodes University, South Africa – discusses the paper “Savanna soil carbon…

Julia Bebout | Competing annual plants shift traits in parallel – Functional Ecologists

In this Behind the Paper blog post, author Julia Bebout – a PhD student at UC San Diego – delves into the article “Trait responses to competition are mostly parallel…