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…
This interview was originally posted on YouTube here in March of this year. We are re-posting the interview as an audio podcast. In this episode I chat with Katie Becklin about her paper in the Journal exploring how willows reduce arbuscual mycorrhizal fungal colonization in understorey alpine communities.
This interview was originally posted on YouTube here in January of this year. We are reposting the interview as an audio podcast. In this episode I chat with David Padilla about his paper in the Journal exploring secondary dispersal by predatory birds on islands.
In our second podcast in the EcoGist series, Justin Dohn of Colorado State University in Colorado, USA, describes his paper on tree effects on grass growth in Savannas. P.S. To give credit where it’s due, EcoGists are modeled after the 60 second science podcasts of Scientific American. If you haven’t heard them before, definitely go have a…
We are introducing a new type of podcast: the EcoGist. These are short (from 1 to 2 minutes) podcasts in which the author or I briefly describe their paper, with motivating question, how they did it, what they found, and what it means. Consider EcoGists as an elevator pitch for a paper. What does the…
I am starting to extract audio from the YouTube interviews done so far to post on them on the Journal of Ecology podcast for those of us that prefer audio to video. This interview was originally posted on YouTube here. We are reposting the interview as an audio podcast. In this episode I chat with Marko Spasojevic about…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Stefan Schnitzer about his paper exploring habitat variables associated with liana communities in Panama. Check out the paper in the journal here. This interview took place on 19 September, 2012 over Skype. 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 a number of ecologists responsible for two databases of population demographics matrices (ComADRe and ComPADRe III), one for plants and other for animals. Four ecologists were interviewed: Rob Salguero-Gomez (who currently organizes the databases), Hal Caswell (a collaborator on the project), and Miguel Franco and Jonathan Silvertown (who started these databases a few…
The final issue of Journal of Ecology’s Centenary volume is now available online. Our latest Editor’s Choice is ‘Plant species diversity and genetic diversity within a dominant species interactively affect plant community biomass’ by Crawford and Rudgers. As always let us know what you think of Associate Editor JC Cahill’s commentary in the comments section…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Lauren Urgensonabout her paper showing that an invasive plant species (Polygonum X bohemicum; bohemian knotweed) has different effects on plants of different seral stages. Check out the paper in the journal here. This interview took place at ESA 2012 in Portland, OR. As always let us know what you…
