Celebrating the winner of the Best Lightning Talk award at the Aquatic Ecology SIG Annual Meeting 2026, Sarah Sandor! – Functional Ecologists

We’re delighted to celebrate the winner of Functional Ecology’s sponsored prize for the Best Lightning Talk award at the Aquatic Ecology SIG Annual Meeting 2026, Sarah Sandor (she/her)! Read Sarah’s…

Exploring Lionfish Ecology—A Research Expedition in Honduras – Functional Ecologists

In this new post, Monica McCard, from Liverpool John Moore University, discusses working on many different non-native aquatic species, with a particular focus on the feeding impacts of invasive lionfish…

The floodplain wetland puzzle – Functional Ecologists

In this new post, Natalie Rideout, a new ecological researcher working at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, discusses her paper: Environmental filtering of macroinvertebrate traits influences ecosystem functioning in…