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Fast-lane mesopredators
Another post from Alejandro Frid (a modified excerpt from a chapter of his forthcoming book). – I fall in love easy. Must be my Latino upbringing. Whatever it is, I have no choice on the matter. So for...
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High-altitude ecology
I’ve been out of the social-media loop for a few weeks, hence the abnormally long interval since my last post. As you might recall, I’ve been travelling overseas and most recently blogged from...
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Rich and stable communities most vulnerable to change
I’ve just read an interesting new study that was sent to me by the lead author, Giovanni Strona. Published the other day in Nature Communications, Strona & Lafferty’s article entitled Environmental...
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Influential conservation ecology papers of 2016
As I have done for the last three years (2015, 2014, 2013), here’s another retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2016 as assessed by experts in F1000 Prime. Scaling laws...
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Fertilisers can make plants sicker
Last year we reported experimental evidence that the dilution effect was the phenomenon by which greater biodiversity imparts disease resistance in plant communities. Our latest paper shows the...
View ArticleGlobal warming causes the worst kind of extinction domino effect
Just under two weeks ago, Giovanni Strona and I published a paper in Scientific Reports on measuring the co-extinction effect from climate change. What we found even made me — an acknowledged pessimist...
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