Podcasts for the journal Functional Ecology

Functional Ecology

In this episode, Ken Thompson talks to Rannveig Jacobsen, recently shortlisted for the Haldane Prize for Early Career researchers for her paper, "Exclusion of invertebrates influences saprotrophic fungal community and wood decay rate in an experimental field study". You can find this paper, along with the other shortlisted papers, here: http://bit.ly/Haldane2018

FE:  Ken Thompson talks to Rannveig Jacobsen about the influence of insects on decomposer fungi

Chuck Fox and Jane Hill chat about Functional Ecology's new experiment looking at single vs double-blind review. You can find out more about this experiment here: http://j.mp/BES_DoubleBlind

Jane Hill interviews Chuck Fox about FE's new Single vs Double-blind experiment

"Breaking down leaves is basically hard work, so if the fungi have the option of an easier life, they take it?"

Why - and how - do algae slow the rate of leaf decomposition in aquatic ecosystems? In this podcast, Ken Thompson interviews Hal Halvorson about his paper "Periphytic algae decouple fungal activity from leaf litter decomposition via negative priming", recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology's Haldane prize.
(Find this and the other shortlisted papers at http://j.mp/2019HaldaneShortlist).

FE Ken Thompson & Hal Halvorson: algae, fungi and leaf decomposition

"It seems that both groups are picking the flowers when they're feeding - they're walking about and you can see them pick flower after flower after flower after flower."

In this podcast, Jurene Kemp talks about her paper, Cryptic petal coloration decreases floral apparency and herbivory in nocturnally closing daisies - recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology's Haldane Prize.
(Find this and the other shortlisted papers at j.mp/2019HaldaneShortlist).

FE: Ken Thompson &  Jurene Kemp: Daisies that close at night use colour to hide from herbivores

Terries Williams talks to Emma Sayer about Hunters vs Hunted, Narwhales vs iPhones, the difficulties of bribing grizzly bears and her new paper on new perspectives on the energetic costs of survival at the top of the food chain - the first ever Calow-Grace review.
Read the paper here:
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.13649

FE: Terrie Williams talks to Emma Sayer on the costs of surviving at the top of the food chain

Podcasts from the British Ecological Society