Interview with Catherine Preece on seed size in crops

In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Catherine Preece, of the University of Sheffield, on her research presented at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Birmingham, UK in December, 2012. This interview took place in person at the metting on 20 December, 2012. Follow this link to the BES podcast series on Souncloud, or use the Soundcloud widget…

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…

Ho ho ho, off to the BES annual meeting we go…

The British Ecological Society annual meeting is almost upon us. Before we head to Birmingham Journal of Ecology Editor, Mark Rees, has made some suggestions about what he thinks that you should go and see. BES annual meeting 2012 Ho ho ho, here we go it’s BES annual meeting time and it’s back where it belongs…

Interview with Ian Pearse

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_