Reflections on talks from #BES12

The #BES12 meeting has come and gone.Here are some notes from some of the talks I attended: Francesco de Bello – Gave a talk on “Functional species pool framework to disentangle biotic and abiotic effects on community assembly ” – Read his related paper by de Bello in Ecology here. I just completed an interview with Francesco…

Upcoming interviews at #BES12

I’m conducting some interviews at the upcoming British Ecological Society in Birmingham: Kyle Dexter – on niche evolution in South American trees Franciska de Vries  – on the link between plant traits and soil microbial communities James Rosindell – on the the tree of life explorer OneZoom Eleanor Slade – on prediction of moth responses to forest fragmentation Michael…

Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview William Sutherland about his paper on identifying 100 fundamental ecological questions.  Check out the paper in the journal here.  This interview took place on 3 December, 2012. As always let us know what you think in the comments section below or on Twitter @JEcology or @recology_

Steve Hovick – Predicting invasiveness using a multivariate experimental approach

In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Steve Hovick about his paper exploring prediction of invasiveness in plants using traits based on an ordination approach, accounting simultaneously for many traits.  Check out the paper in the journal here.  This interview took place on 20 November, 2012. As always let us know what you think in the comments…

Kerri Crawford – Interactive effect of species and genetic diversity on primary production

In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Kerri Crawford about her paper exploring how plant species and genetic diversity interact to influence plant community biomass.  Check out the paper in the journal here.  This interview took place on 3 December, 2012. As always let us know what you think in the comments section below or on Twitter @JEcology or @recology_

Interview with Rick Karban – (YouTube-2-Podcast)

This interview was originally posted on YouTube here in April of this year. We are re-posting the interview as an audio podcast. In this episode I chat with Rick Karban about his paper in the Journal of Ecology exploring the consequences of volatile communication in sagebrush. Apologies for those of you who have already watched this interview on YouTube…