Quentin Willot | Endogenous colony dormancy shapes seasonal cold tolerance in temperate ants – Functional Ecologists

In this week’s blog post, we’re working together to beat the cold! Discussing their paper: “Endogenous colony dormancy shapes seasonal cold tolerance in temperate ants” author Quentin Willot – a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc at Namur…

Strip cropping improves plant defenses against herbivorous insects via the soil   – Functional Ecologists

In this post Laura Riggi from University of Wageningen (Netherlands) presents her work ‘Strip-cropping legacy enhances potato plant defence responses to aphids via soil-mediated mechanisms’. She talks about the importance…

A herbivore-induced defense- plant protein in honeydew enhances natural enemy fitness – Functional Ecologists

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…