2025 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Kentaro Takagi discusses the paper “Realized flower constancy in bumble bees: Optimal foraging strategy balancing cognitive and travel costs and its possible consequences for floral diversity“, which…
Category: Ecosystems
Haldane Prize 2025 | Marion Boisseaux: Shifting trait coordination along a soil-moisture-nutrient gradient in tropical forests – Functional Ecologists
2025 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Marion Boisseaux, discusses her paper ‘Shifting trait coordination along a soil-moisture-nutrient gradient in tropical forests’, which has been shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s 2025 Haldane Prize for…
Haldane Prize 2025 | Lifeng Wang: Soil fauna trophic multifunctionality mediates the release of elements from decomposing typhoon-generated leaf litter – Functional Ecologists
2024 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Lifeng Wang discusses the paper “Soil fauna trophic multifunctionality mediates the release of elements from decomposing typhoon-generated leaf litter“, which has been shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s…
Haldane Prize 2025 | June Shrestha: Marine protection and environmental forcing influence fish-derived nutrient cycling in kelp forests – Functional Ecologists
2025 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: June Shrestha discusses her paper “Marine protection and environmental forcing influence fish-derived nutrient cycling in kelp forests“, which has been shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s 2025 Haldane Prize…
Haldane Prize 2025 | Carolina Olguín-Jacobson: Recovery mode: Marine protected areas enhance resilience of invertebrate species from marine heatwave – Functional Ecologists
2025 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Carolina Olguín Jacobson discusses her paper “Recovery mode: Marine protected areas enhance resilience of invertebrate species from marine heatwaves”, which has been shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s…
Why do birds cheat? – Functional Ecologists
In this week’s blog post, we find out how relationship woes are abundant in the bird community! Through her paper: “Avian extra-pair paternity in the last European primeval forest”, author Joanna Sudyka provides an explanation for the question: “why do birds…
Functional Ecology’s Award for Early Career Researchers – Functional Ecologists
The Haldane Prize is awarded annually by the British Ecological Society for the best paper in Functional Ecology by an early career author. We are pleased to present the shortlisted papers for the 2025 award (published…
Rosemary Glos | Trapped, Poked, and Poisoned: Evidence for Defence Synergisms in a Desert Plant – Functional Ecologists
In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, Rosemary Glos (she/her, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi, USA) discusses her research article ‘Separate and Synergistic Anti-Herbivore Effects of Non-Glandular Trichomes and…
Dusanka Vujanovic | Landscapes that choose their butterflies – Functional Ecologists
In this week’s ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Dusanka Vujanovic discusses their new research article “Larval diet breadth and wingspan mediate landscape–richness relationship in butterfly communities“. Dusanka, a Research…
Sylvie Martin-Eberhardt | Multiple signalling in carnivorous pitcher plant – Functional Ecologists
In this week’s ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post Sylvie Martin-Eberhardt (they/them) discusses their new research article “Multiple signalling increases both prey response and diversity in a carnivorous pitcher plant“. Sylvie,…
