Amazonian tree species differently invest in stem and twig wood depending on their environment  – Functional Ecologists

In this new post Gisele Biem, postdoc researcher at National Institute for Amazon Research and State University of Mato Grosso, presets her work ‘Ecosystem type affects how Amazonian tree species…

Above- and belowground strategies of tropical montane tree species are coordinated and driven by small-scale nitrogen availability  – Functional Ecologists

In our last post Kerstin Pierick, postdoc at the University of Göttingen, discusses her last PhD thesis chapter ‘Above- and belowground strategies of tropical montane tree species are coordinated and…

A whole-tree perspective on the role of non-structural carbohydrates in resource allocation trade-offs along the tree economics spectrum  – Functional Ecologists

In our latest blog post, Guangqi Zhang, postdoc at INRAE (France), presents his paper “Not all sweetness and light: non-structural carbohydrate storage capacity in tree stems is decoupled from leaf…

Response to water stress and associations with plant functional traits – Functional Ecologists

In this new post, PhD candidate at University of Sun Yat-sen University, Chaoqing Song, presents his work ‘Differential tree demography mediated by water stress and functional traits in a moist…

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…

Foraging for efficiency—morphological traits provide support for variations in performance of the feeding apparatus in coexisting Neotropical bats – Functional Ecologists

In this new post, David Villalobos Chaves, a PhD student at Department of Biology and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, discusses his…