In this post, Pablo Urbaneja-Bernat, tenure track at Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (Spain), presents his work ‘Not just candy: A herbivore-induced defense- plant protein in honeydew enhances natural…
Tag: biodiversity
Implications for long-distance seed dispersal. – Functional Ecologists
In our latest post, Claudio Açaí Bracho-Estévanez shares with us how intricate the relationship between producer and consumer is! Claudio explains the beauty behind their paper: ‘Plant traits determine seed…
Growth-mortality trade-off in tropical tree seedlings is determined by stem elongation and soil fertility. – Functional Ecologists
In this new post Caicai Zhang, from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Eastern-Himalaya Biodiversity Research at Dali University, shares insights from her recently…
Dra. Daniela Boanares (Español) – Functional Ecologists
Ciencia, Resiliencia y Conservación: El Viaje de una Ecóloga Negra En trabajo de campo, recopilando datos para analizar las características funcionales de las especies vegetales del Campo Rupestre, con énfasis…
Leveraging collaboration, transparency, and inclusion to advance macrosystems biology” – Functional Ecologists
Functional Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution and People and Nature are seeking proposals for a cross-journal Special Feature on “Large Scale, Open…
Clara Castellano—Understanding the Impact of Rural Abandonment on Ecological Processes in Mediterranean Ecosystems – Functional Ecologists
In this blog post, Clara Castellano—from the Department of Agrarian and Environmental Science at the University of Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain—discusses working on the ARBIO Project in the Middle Ebro River…
TreeDì—Understanding tree diversity effects on Chinese subtropical forests – Functional Ecologists
In this new post, the group – PhD students at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany – discuss their experiences working on the BEF-China experiment, the…
Invasive engineers—global drivers of ecological change – Functional Ecologists
In this post, Prof. Gil Rilov—Senior Scientist at the National Institute of Oceanography, Israeli Limnological and Oceanographic Research (IOLR), as well as Associate Professor, at the University of Haifa, Israel—discusses…
Plant functional traits lend predictability to idiosyncratic range shifts – Functional Ecologists
In this new post, Tesa Madsen-Hepp—PhD candidate at the University of California Riverside, USA—presents her latest research ‘Plant functional traits predict heterogeneous distributional shifts in response to climate change’. She…
