Saturday, September 7, 2024

Ecology

Five lessons to level up conservation successfully

Conservation needs to scale successfully to protect nature. A new paper takes lessons from around the world to show how that might be...

Editor’s Choice (112:09): How do yellow-necked mice & common oaks navigate a dynamic mutualism?

The editor’s choice for our September issue is ‘Scatterhoarder abundance and advantages of seed burial drive dynamics of a tree–rodent interaction‘, by Rafał Zwolak et al.:  This...

Friday links: nepo babies (academic and otherwise), and more

Also this week: Philip Ball interview, game of telephone (biodiversity and Indigenous lands edition), Dynamic Ecology vs. LinkedIn, Jeremy attempts to dispel a...

Bringing habitat patches into the species distribution models world

Federico Riva, Environmental Geography Dept. of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM),Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, discusses his review article: Incorporating effects of habitat patches...

Here are some AI-generated titles for my book. Please vote for your favorite!

As most of you know, I recently completed a draft of my book. But I’m still struggling to come up with a title....

Using management interventions to help at-risk butterflies in a changing climate – The Applied Ecologist

Author Cheryl Schultz talks us through a new study which highlights the importance of active management interventions in helping to buffer effects of...

Coding for forest conservation – The Applied Ecologist

This month, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the voice of early career ecologists from around the world working in the field of applied...

We are all ducks | Dynamic Ecology

A while back, when thinking about student mental health, I first learned that we are all ducks. The idea is that, when we...

2025 applications now open! – The Applied Ecologist

Are you looking to learn more about the peer review process through hands-on experience? Are you less than five years post-PhD and live...

How mycorrhizal associations are growing our understanding of plant-soil feedback across plant communities

Andrew Eagar and Sara Moledor, from Michigan State University’s Department of Plant Biology, discuss their research group’s new review paper: Setting the Stage...

Friday links: conflicting incentives in scientific research, science vs. pasta, and more

Also this week: meet the new boss con artist, same as the old boss con artist, breaking up (with the ESA) is hard...

How a salt giant radically reshaped Mediterranean marine biodiversity

A new study paves the way to understanding biotic recovery after an ecological crisis in the Mediterranean Sea about 5.5 million years ago....

Measurement of increased vegetation cover following stock removal and conservation management – The Applied Ecologist

Angus Retallack explains how, using remote sensing data over a 22-year observation period, vegetation recovery after the removal of livestock and the introduction...

Oxygen produced in the deep sea raises questions about extraterrestrial life

Over 12,000 feet below the surface of the sea, in a region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), million-year-old...
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