Haldre Rogers organized a session at the recent Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in August titled What Is The Fate Of a Forest Without Vertebrate Frugivores? Merging Case Studies With Theory. You can read the abstract for the session here. We caught up with Haldre at ESA to chat, and the following is our discussion.
Andrew Trant gave a talk recently at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Minneapolis, MN, USA titled Ecological factors, not climate warming, explain variability in treeline patterns. Read the talk abstract here. Andrew is a postdoc at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC, Canada. We caught up with Andrew at the ESA meeting to…
Allison Louthan et al. have a paper out in the journal titled Climatic stress mediates the impacts of herbivory on plant population structure and components of individual fitness. Read their paper here. We caught up with Allison recently to chat about her research.
Joshua Rapp et al. have a paper out in the journal (Early View) titled Sex allocation, pollen limitation and masting in whitebark pine. Read their paper here, and a press release here. We caught up with Joshua recently to chat about his research.
Jörg Albrecht et al. have a paper out in the journal (vol 101, issue 4, pp. 662-70) titled Logging and forest edges reduce redundancy in plant–frugivore networks in an old-growth European forest. Read their paper here. We caught up with Jörg recently to chat about his research.
Verena Cordlandwehr et al. have a paper out in the journal (vol 101, issue 3, pp. 662-70) titled Do plant traits retrieved from a database accurately predict on-site measurements? Read their paper here. We caught up with Verena recently to chat about her research. Note: Apologies in advance for the relatively poor sound quality – I will work in…
Nicolas Gross et al. have a paper out in the journal (vol 101, issue 3, pp. 637-49) titled Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands. Read their paper here. We caught up with Nicolas recently to chat about his research.
A special feature was recently published in the journal on whole-plant senescence. Go here to read the papers. I caught up with two of the three editors of that special feature, Rob Salugero-Gomez and Richard Shefferson, to talk about plant senescence.
The prize winners for best papers across the BES journals have been announced. See the announcement here. The Harper Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Ecology has been awarded to Simon Doxford for his paper with Rob Freckleton titled Changes in the large-scale distribution of plants: extinction, colonisation and the effects of climate. Read their paper here.…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview James Rosindell, of Imperial College London, about OneZoom. Visit OneZoom here: www.onezoom.org. I spoke with James at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Birmingham, UK in December, 2012. This interview took place in person at the metting on 19 December, 2012. A few months have passed and…
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