Haldane Prize 2025 | João Vitor Messeder: Rethinking the role of colour in avian fruit choices and foraging mechanisms – Functional Ecologists

2025 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: João Vitor Messeder discusses the paper “Rethinking the role of colour in avian fruit choices and foraging mechanisms“, which has been shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s 2025 Haldane…

What characteristics make frugivores good seed dispersers in a diverse neotropical savanna? – Functional Ecologists

In our latest post, Mariana Campagnoli gives us a bite of the fascinating fruit to seed dispersal system of the Cerrado ecosystem in Brazil. Through their latest paper “Plant and…

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…

Thinking about seed dispersal patterns of mammal carnivores – Functional Ecologists

In this blog post, Tamara Burgos, a postdoc at University of Cádiz, presents her paper “Apex predators can structure ecosystems through trophic cascades: Linking the frugivorous behaviour and seed dispersal…