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Is resprouting a persistence trait in tropical forests?

Author James Dalling discusses recent paper “Nutrient availability predicts multiple stem frequency, an indicator of species resprouting capacity in tropical forests” by Heineman, Turner and Dalling. Read on to find out more about variations in the resprouting ability of tropical trees. The life of a tree is seldom the unobstructed path of a single stem…

1 week ago February 19, 2021 in Author post.

Plant soil legacies and species coexistence in species-rich grasslands

Dina in ‘t Zandt discusses her recent paper Local soil legacy effects in a multispecies grassland community are underlain by root foraging and soil nutrient availability. Find out more about their soil legacy experiments and how their results differed from the theory. Biodiversity plays a key role in ecosystem structure and function, with plant community…

September 10, 2020 in Author post.

Harper Prize Shortlist 2019: Eric A. Griffin

In this post, Eric Griffin, Assistant Professor at New Mexico Highlands University, discusses his paper Plant host identity and soil macronutrients explain little variation in sapling endophyte community composition: Is disturbance an alternative explanation?, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Harper Prize.  You can see a full list of all shortlisted papers in the Harper…

June 23, 2020 in Author post, Early Career Scientist, Harper Prize.

Interview with Eric Lind on the Nutrient Network (NutNet)

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…

October 12, 2012 in Interview, Podcast, Video.

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