Ecology Podcast

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Sandra Lavorel's Special Feature on ecosystem services is available to access, for free, online via http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jec.2012.101.issue-1/issuetoc. Music credit: [Cirus Marcus](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/CIRCUSMARCUS/) - (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/CIRCUSMARCUS/Aux_puces/Circus_Marcus_-_Aux_puces_n5)

The paper by Šímová, Li & Storch can be accessed for free at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12011/abstract.

Music credit: [Plays Guitar](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/gillicuddy/Plays_Guitar/) to [Gillicuddy](http://www.gillicuddy.net/)

Music credit: + artist: James Beaudreau + song: Parlor City + link: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/James_Beaudreau/Fresh_Twigs_WBR_02/9_Parlor_City

Coping with stress: some species survive by breaking the rules, as Lanna Desantis explains to Robbie Wilson as part of the Special Feature: The Ecology of Stress For more information, read the lay summary (http://bit.ly/VQU0Xx) and article (http://bit.ly/14qsdBq)

In the latest Journal of Ecology podcast, Scott Chamberlain interviews Peter Jørgensen of INNGE (http://www.innge.net/). Music credit: Artist: Pajaro (https://soundcloud.com/budabeats/pajaro-santa-leone) Song: "Santa Leone" (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pajaro/Best_Of_Breitband_Vol4/06_pajaro_-_santa_leone_1357)

Music credit: "Instrumental" (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Howie_Mitchell__Charlotte_Williams_1108/Howie__Charlotte_Williams_11-14-58/Track_5-InstrGuitarAndDulcDuet) by "Howie Mitchell and Charlotte Williams" (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Howie_Mitchell__Charlotte_Williams_1108/)

The long necked sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth – but why were they so large? One possibility is that it somehow involved the nature of the plant food they eat, as David Wilkinson (co-author of the paper "High C:N ratio (not low-energy content) of vegetation may have driven gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs and perhaps omnivory and/or endothermy in their juven...

Alan Knapp interviews Brad Butterfield about his paper "A functional-comparative approach to facilitation between and its context-dependence", part of an upcoming Special Feature on Mechanisms of Plant Competition, and the importance of taking a trait-based approach to plant facilitation. A great deal of research has been conducted on the mechanisms and outcomes of plant competition, what traits h...

Read the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00077.x/abstract

Read the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00087.x/abstract

Jason Knouft, from Saint Louis University, Missouri, talks to Elizabeth Horne about his recently published paper, "Using fine-scale GIS data to assess the relationship between intra-annual environmental niche variability and population density in a local stream fish assemblage". Jason establishes the need for broad-scale geographic considerations of ecological issues, and explains how the applicat...

Freya Harrison, University of Oxford, UK talks with Graziella Iossa about her review on getting started with meta-analysis. Freya explains that meta-analysis is a statistically robust way of putting together results from different studies that test the same hypothesis. She provides in this review a 'road map' to the topic so that beginners can get a head start on meta-analysis. Meta-analysis hopef...

Jane Elith and Michael Kearney, University of Melbourne, Australia and Steven Phillips, AT&T, USA talk with Graziella Iossa about their work: 'The art of modelling range-shifting species'. Jane explains that this is a method to predict species distributions, whose range are shifting, like invasive species or species responding to climate change. Mike Kearney then specifies why they used cane toads...

Art Munson, Cornell University, USA, talks with Graziella Iossa about his work with colleagues in developing a method for measuring the relative information content of data from different monitoring protocols. Art presents a method to compare the information from two data sources. As often in ecology data are difficult to compare because they have been collected at different points in space and ti...

Karen Strier, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and Susan Alberts, Duke University, USA and Institute of Primate Research, Kenya, talk with Graziella Iossa, MEE Journal Co-ordinator, about their work with co-authors: The Primate Life History Database. This online database is based on long-term datasets that researchers at several institutions in North America have created to make data comparab...

Graziella Iossa interviews Jean-Pierre Moussus, MNHN - EGB about his work with co-authors Romain Julliard and Frederic Jiguet on phenological estimators using simulated data. Read the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00020.x/full

Doug Barron answers what is the main idea behind his work with co-authors, "Meta-analysis of transmitter effects on avian behaviour and ecology". Further, he explains how their meta-analysis advances methodology in ecology and evolution and finally shows how the findings of their study could be applied by anyone using transmitters on birds. Read the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1...