Functional Ecology is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2023 Haldane Prize is Indra Boving! The Haldane Prize is awarded annually for the best paper published in the…
Category: Ecosystems
Flowers receive and transmit electrical signals from pollinators
Flowering plants may have a secret power for knowing when to lure pollinators. They could act as antennas for bees’ electrical signals and transmit those signals through the soil, biophysicist…
Mycorrhizal fungi alter root exudation to cultivate a beneficial microbiome for plant growth – Functional Ecologists
In this blog post, Yunxian Xu discusses his study “Mycorrhizal fungi alter root exudation to cultivate a beneficial microbiome for plant growth“, which has been shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s 2023…
Fine-scale thermal heterogeneity drives summertime limpet distributions – Functional Ecologists
In this blog post, Spencer Virgin, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, discusses his study “Behavioural thermoregulation and food availability drive fine-scale seasonal habitat partitioning in…
Importance of tissue, trophic level, and diet source in shaping variation in isotopic trophic discrimination factors – Functional Ecologists
In this post, Ryan Stephens, an ecologist at East Tennessee State University, discusses his review paper “Meta-analysis and critical review of trophic discrimination factors (Δ13C and Δ15N): Importance of tissue,…
Cell Size is More Important in Conditions of Low Oxygen – Functional Ecologists
In this post, Félix P. Leiva, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany, discusses his article “The role of cell size in shaping responses to oxygen and temperature in…
Exploring the relationship between different measures of functional redundancy – Functional Ecologists
In this blog post, Daniel G. Dick, a public education and geoscience communication postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University, Canada, discusses his study “Measuring functional redundancy using generalized Hill numbers”, which…
2023 Haldane Prize Podcast – Functional Ecologists
Podcast out now! Ximena Cibils chats to us about her research paper, Silicon and Epichloë-endophyte defences in a model temperate grass diminish feeding efficiency and immunity of an insect, which has…
Plants and flammability—Deep inside the mechanisms of wild fires – Functional Ecologists
In this revisited blog post, Indra Boving, a PhD candidate at University of California-Santa Barbara, USA, shares her work ‘Live fuel moisture and water potential exhibit differing relationships with leaf-level…
