Functional Ecologists

In this blog post, author Evan Perkowski – a postdoctoral research associate at Texas Tech University – delves into his research article “The negative effects of an allelopathic invader on native plant photosynthesis are amplified after tree canopy closure“, which was pub...

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Libin Zhou – an Associate Professor at the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology – discusses the paper “Nutrient enrichment destabilizes aquatic food webs through synchronization within and across trophic levels“, which ...

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post author Thayara S. Carrasco – a a postdoc at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, explores the paper “Long-term changes in functional diversity and its implications for mammalian conservation and ecological restoration in a grassland ecosystem”, published in Functional Ecology. Thayara discusses the ecological characteristics and fu...

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Meixu Han – a PhD student at Northwest A&F University – shares insights into the paper “Aridity-dependent regulation of water-use efficiency by leaf vein traits across grassland communities“. Meixu Han discusses how grassla...

In this blog post, author Miki Jahn – an Associate Lecturer in Biology and Ecology at the University of Sydney – discusses the article “Increased energetic cost of movement reduces reproductive output in zebrafish at different temperatures and water flow rates“, which was rec...