Weight loss in female birds – an adaptive strategy – Functional Ecologists

In this blog post, Tim Forrester helps answer a weighty question: Does weight loss help or hurt nesting birds? Based on his recent paper with Tom Martin, “Observational and experimental…

species coexistence and niche segregation in Mediterranean green lizards. – Functional Ecologists

In our latest post, author Carolina Reyes-Puig asks us if it’s all about size (in this case, it is…kinda!). In their latest paper: “Is it all about size? Dismantling the…

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…