How beneficial soil microbes boost indirect plant defenses against herbivores – Functional Ecologists

In our new post, Tuğcan Alınç, postdoctoral research at University of Palermo, presents his work ‘Root inoculation with beneficial soil microbes enhances indirect plant defenses induced by insect feeding and…

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…