In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Francesco de Bello, of the Institute of Botany – Czech Academy of Sciences, on his 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. Find out more about Francesco at his…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Kyle Dexter, of the University of Leeds./Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, on his 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 17 December, 2012. Find out more about Kyle at his website here.…
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…
In our fifth podcast in the EcoGist series I read a description of research in a recent paper by Chaeho Byun, a graduate student at McGill University, and colleagues. Their paper was on how functional group identity and diversity determine biotic resistance to invasion by an exotic grass. Read the paper in the journal here. The paper…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Eleanor Slade, of University of Helsinki, on her recently published paper in Ecology on predicting macro-moth responses to forest fragmentation. This interview took place over Skype on 19 December, 2012. Check out the paper here. The research discussed in the podcast was carried out while Eleanor was a postdoc at…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Wim Van der Putten, of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in The Netherlands, on the recently published special feature in the journal that he organized on plant-soil feedbacks. This interview took place over Skype on 15 February, 2013. Check out the special feature here. Follow this link to the BES podcast series on…
Ali Zakir and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in early view “Herbivore-induced plant volatiles provide associational resistance against an ovipositing herbivore”. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo.
Brian Brassard and company have a paper in the Journal in volume 101:1 titled “Tree species diversity increases fine root productivity through increased soil volume filling”. Read the abstract here.
Castagneyrol and company have a paper in the Journal in Early View titled “Plant apparency, an overlooked driver of associational resistance to insect herbivory”. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a few photos.
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Sandra Lavorel, from Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, on the recently published special feature in the journal that she organized on plant functional effects on ecosystem services. This interview took place over Skype on 10 December, 2012. Check out the special feature here (and they are free to…
