In this post, Zhe Chen—a postdoc at the CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences—share his recently published…
Category: Ecosystems
Landscape ecology and macroecology – Functional Ecologists
This blog post on ‘Landscape ecology and macroecology’ is part of the BES ‘Key Concepts in Ecology’ series, designed to help ecologists in learning the key topics in ecology! Take…
Invasion alters reproduction in a native perennial plant – Functional Ecologists
In this new post, Petr Dostál—from the Institute of Botany, Czech Republic—presents his work ‘Reproductive strategies of native plant populations altered by a plant invasion’. He highlights the connection between…
Mutualisms and Facilitation – Functional Ecologists
This blog post on ‘Mutualisms and facilitation’ is part of the BES ‘Key Concepts in Ecology’ series, designed to help ecologists in learning the key topics in ecology. See the…
A Two-Part Workshop for Latin American Researchers – Functional Ecologists
Speaker: Emma Sayer Workshop 1: 3-4:30pm GMT, November 28, 2023 – REGISTER HERE Workshop 2: 3-4:30pm GMT, December 05, 2023 – REGISTER HERE Are you a researcher in Latin America…
My unexpected path to academia – Functional Ecologists
In our latest post, Nate Anderson—a researcher at the University of Western Australia—discusses the healing and regenerative benefits of time spent in nature, working in majestic Red Tingle forests, and…
Response to water stress and associations with plant functional traits – Functional Ecologists
In this new post, PhD candidate at University of Sun Yat-sen University, Chaoqing Song, presents his work ‘Differential tree demography mediated by water stress and functional traits in a moist…
What are you doing in a place like this? Connecting plants’ climate preferences with functional traits – Functional Ecologists
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…
Plants and flammability—Deep inside the mechanisms of wild fires – Functional Ecologists
In our newest post, Indra Boving—a PhD candidate at University of California-Santa Barbara, USA—shares her latest work ‘Live fuel moisture and water potential exhibit differing relationships with leaf-level flammability thresholds’.…
