There seems to be less and less funding for ecology. In addition, ecological questions benefit from being carried out in a lot of different locations – this allows for more general conclusions. Traditionally, an ecologist would get a bunch of money and do the research at all the sites herself. Another way to do this…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Ian Pearse about oaks and selection on flowering time in oaks. Check out the related paper in the journal here. This interview took place at ESA 2012 in Portland, OR. As always let us know what you think in the comments section below or on Twitter @JEcology or @recology_
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview David Storch about the Czech Ecological Society and his research on macroecology. Check out the Czech Ecological Society here. Check out David’s Nature paper here. This interview took place at ESA 2012 in Portland, OR. Find the podcast on iTunes here**, or search for “Journal of Ecology” in the iTunes store.…
Joe Mudge wrote a guest post for the blog here in March of this year. The post dealt with our use of α=0.05 for hypothesis testing. The following is another guest post by Joe Mudge in which he presents evidence of the benefit of using the optimal alpha level approach. Please chime in with your thoughts.
In Journal of Ecology’s third podcast I interview Jennifer Williams about her recent paper in the Journal on matrix population models. Read the abstract here. This interview took place at ESA 2012 in Portland, OR. Jennifer won the ESA Plant Population Ecology Postdoctoral Excellence Award for this paper. See our post about it here. As always let us…
In Journal of Ecology’s third podcast I interview Jens Kattge about the TRY plant traits database. In addition, we get a user perspective from Rob Salugero-Gomez. This interview took place at ESA 2012 in Portland, OR. As always let us know what you think in the comments section below or on Twitter @JEcology or @recology_
In Journal of Ecology’s second podcast I interview Jarrett Byrnes about crowdfunding science and his SciFund project. Jarrett is a professor at UMass Boston. Learn more about SciFund here. This interview took place at ESA 2012 in Portland, OR. As always let us know what you think in the comments section below or on Twitter @JEcology or @recology_.
The Journal of Ecology blog started in January this year. We sought to create a forum where we could highlight some of the most interesting work in the Journal of Ecology. Personally speaking, I wanted to do something different than the usual text based blog posts on published papers. Namely, I wanted to do something video or audio…
An interesting paper was published recently in the journal in volume 100:5 titled “Pollination mode predicts phenological response to climate change in terrestrial orchids: a case study from central Europe“. Read the abstract here. The problem they addressed essentially was asking what traits may predict phenological response to climate change. They studied a set of about…
Mark St. John and company have a paper in the Journal in volume 100:5 titled “Loss of a dominant nitrogen-fixing shrub in primary succession: consequences for plant and below-ground communities”. Read the abstract here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a few photos. Many ecosystems throughout the world are gaining some species and…
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