The importance of individual behavior for bird-mediated seed dispersal – Functional Ecologists

In our latest post Valentin Graf, PhD student at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, presents his work ‘Individual behavior shapes patterns of bird-mediated seed dispersal’. He…

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…

Surprise! Rapid heritable adaptation can occur without initial standing genetic variation – Functional Ecologists

In this new post, Kimberley Lemmen—a post-doc working at the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland—discusses her paper: Experimental evidence of rapid heritable adaptation in the absence of initial standing genetic…