Ecology Podcast

In this podcast Simon Kärvemo discusses his paper ‘Forest restoration as a double-edged sword: the conflict between biodiversity conservation and pest control’ published in the Journal of Applied Ecology - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12905/full.

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Recorded by JaBa - http://soundbible.com/1902-Fire-Burning.html

Recorded by Daniel Simion - http://soundbible.com/2039-Tree-Fall-Small.html

Georgina Brennan interviews Simon Creer about his Open Access Review paper 'The ecologist's field guide to sequence-based identification of biodiversity'. They discuss the idea that led to the paper, who could benefit from reading it and much more.

You can read the full article on the Wiley Online Library here: http://bit.ly/2n9u2VB (No Subscription Required).

An interview with the Senior Editors of the British Ecological Society journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution - Rob Freckleton, Bob O'Hara and Jana Vamosi. They talk about what sets it apart from other journals, their favourite articles, and the kinds of papers that they would like to see more of. If you're thinking about submitting to Methods in Ecology and Evolution, they have some advice as well.

Articles Mentioned by the Editors:

- Applications articles (http://www.methodsinecologyandevolution.org/view/0/applicationpapers.html)

- Tea Bag Index: a novel approach to collect uniform decomposition data across ecosystems (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12097/full)

- A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2009.00001.x/full)

- How safe is mist netting? evaluating the risk of injury and mortality to birds (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00123.x/full)

- Personal messages reduce vandalism and theft of unattended scientific equipment (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12132/full)

- A simple approach for maximizing the overlap of phylogenetic and comparative data (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12517/full)

Duncan irschick Talks to Tiphaine Jeanniard-du-Dot about accelerometers, energy expenditure and Antarctic fur seals

Jeanniard-du-Dot, T., Guinet, C., Arnould, J. P.Y., Speakman, J. R. and Trites, A. W. (2016), Accelerometers can measure total and activity-specific energy expenditures in free-ranging marine mammals only if linked to time-activity budgets. Funct Ecol. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.1272

Do more diverse mixtures of plants function more efficiently and take up more carbon? Previous studies have suggested this occurs frequently in grasslands when species are mixed. Other studies have now suggested that the same can be true of genetic mixtures within a species.

In this podcast, Dylan G. Fischer talks about the results of the first forest ecosystem-scale experiment designed to test if more diverse mixtures of genetic stock result in more productive forests

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12733/full

Pierre Mariotte interviews Gerlinde De Deyn at EcoSummit2016

Pierre Mariotte interviews Associate Editor Marcel Van der Heijden at EcoSummit2016, Montpellier

Journal of Ecology Blog Editor Pierre Mariotte interviews Senior Editor Richard Bardgett at EcoSummit2016, Montpellier

Journal of Ecology Executive Editor David Gibson meets with Associate Editor Charlie Canham at ESA 2016 to discuss the theme of the meeting (Novel Ecosystems in the Anthropocene), as well as Charlie's research.

Journal of Ecology Executive Editor David Gibson meets with Associate Editor Emily Farrer at ESA 2016 to discuss the theme of this year's meeting (Novel Ecosystems in the Anthropocene), as well as Emily's research.