Episodes

MEE: TITAN 21.11.2012 4:04

Matt Baker talks to Graziella about TITAN, their method for measuring ecological community thresholds that should be able to inform about conservation of rare and threatened species. Read the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2009.00007.x/full

Alan Knapp interviews Ryan Sponseller for Functional Ecology 15.03.2012 5:22

In this latest podcast, Alan Knapp, Editor of Functional Ecology, interviews Ryan Sponseller and his co-authors on their paper 'Variation in monsoon precipitation drives spatial and temporal patterns of Larrea tridentata growth in the Sonoran Desert'. Read the paper: Ryan A. Sponseller et al. (2012), Variation in monsoon precipitation drives spatial and temporal patterns of Larrea tridentata growt...

Alan Knapp interviews Amy Austin how a massive bamboo flowering event impacted an old-growth forest 15.10.2011 9:15

Alan Knapp interviews Amy Austin about her paper co-authored with Victoria Marchesini where they examined how a massive bamboo flowering event, which occurred in 2001 over 200,000 hectares in Patagonia, Argentina , impacted carbon and nutrient cycling in a native old-growth forest. Read the paper on Functional Ecology: Austin, A. T. and Marchesini, V. A. (2011), Gregarious flowering and death of u...

Functional Ecology: Phil Hulme talks to Alan Knapp 15.09.2011 12:14

In Functional Ecology's first podcast, Phil Hulme talks to Alan Knapp, about his study which is the first comparison testing for consistency in flowering phenology of species established in the wild in both their native Europe and as introduced aliens in North America. Read the paper here: Hulme, P. E. (2011), Consistent flowering response to global warming by European plants introduced into North...