animal-ecology

Marco Fioratti Junod (he/him) provides the story behind his paper, “Herbivory mediates the response of below-ground food-webs to invasive grasses“, which was shortlisted for this year’s Elton Prize. We also hear a little about his journey into animal ecology. About the paper: What is your shortlisted paper about, and what are you seeking to answer with your research? The study deals with the comb…

Post provided by MATT MALISHEV (@DARWINANDDAVIS) Changes in temperature and available food determine where and when animals move, reproduce, and survive. Our understanding of how environmental change impacts biodiversity and species survival is well-established at the landscape, country and global scales. But, we know less about what could happen at finer space and time scales, such as within hab…