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from BES Ecology and Policy Blog
Parliamentary Links Day brings together academic societies across the science and engineering disciplines with parliamentarians, and this year’s theme was UK Science and Global Opportunities. The day consisted of keynote speakers and panel discussions along this theme. This was the first year that the British Ecological Society was an official partner organisation for this event.
The role of UK Research & InnovationSir John Kingman, soon to be the chair of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), emphasised the importance of the continuity provided by the reappointment of Jo Johnson as Minister for Universities and Science and Greg Clark as the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Jo Johnson described the £6 billion investment (to reach £8 billion in 4 years) by the Government in research and development (R&D) as “big potatoes”. He pointed to the creation...
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from EcoLincNZ
Just 5.5% of New Zealand soils have enough natural fertility for food production. Yet here in NZ, with our trademark ‘no.8 wire can-do’ attitude, you’ll find we manage to produce a very large amount of food. When you think about it though, that’s a hefty amount of no. 8 wire to drag a large proportion of our soils up to adequate fertility to be able to achieve this. So how is it possible?
With the intensification of farming in recent decades, New Zealand has become increasingly reliant on the use of inorganic fertilizers, like superphosphate, to make this happen. The alternative involves land uses that demand less nutrients from the soil, such as forestry. Unfortunately, this has resulted in many...
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from Shonil Bhagwat: Reflections on nature and culture
From Campaign for Social Science
Last week’s Queen’s Speech confirmed that despite the path chosen by the US, the UK would honour the Paris Agreement. Here Shonil Bhagwat, Senior Lecturer in Geography at the Open University, looks at the motivations and implications behind the US decision, and how international action on climate change will go on.
As the world’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the withdrawal of US from the Paris climate agreement comes as a setback to international action on climate change. This puts the US alongside Nicaragua and Syria, the two other UN member countries who have refused the deal. Does this withdrawal threaten to derail the international...
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from Journal of Ecology blog
The Harper Prize 2016 for the best paper published in Journal of Ecology by an early career researcher has been awarded to Martina Treurnicht. Martina and colleagues collected 3454 population-level records from across the global range of these species in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. The findings of her paper entitled ‘Environmental drivers of…
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from Beneath Our Feet: the GSBI Blog
By Max Helmberger, graduate student, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, USA
Growing up an only child on a dirt road in the Northern Minnesota woods, I spent a lot of time outside, overturning the many thousands of glacier-strewn rocks around my house (at least the ones small enough to move) and gazing in awe at the centipedes, isopods, and invasive European earthworms underneath (which were promptly relocated to our compost bin). My first interest in soil in an academic context came the year after I graduated from high school, when I took a soil science course at my local community college. That class instilled in me a firm conviction that soil is humankind's most important natural resource, and clued me in to the fact that, in soil, there's far more than meets the eye.
After transferring to the University of Minnesota in Duluth to major in Biology, I took an entomology class and worked as a research assistant in an aboveground...
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from Dynamic Ecology
As I discussed last week, the most eye-opening part of the AAAS Leshner Fellows training that I did recently was the part about engaging with policy makers. This is a new area of engagement for me, and I was really interested in learning more about this. I was surprised to realize how interested I was in it — when I first read Nancy Baron’s Escape from the Ivory Tower, the thought of engaging with policy makers was so anxiety-provoking to me that I felt ill. (It probably didn’t help that I was reading it on a plane going through turbulence.) Last week’s post covered some policy engagement fundamentals (make sure to read...
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from methods.blog (Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
Post Provided by: Gabriel Rech and José Luis Villanueva-Cañas So Simple yet so Complex A long standing research topic in evolutionary biology is the genetic basis of adaptation. In other words, how does a novel trait appear (or spread) in … Continue reading →
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from Dynamic Ecology
A while back I asked y’all for recommendations for popular science books that a scientist would enjoy. Meaning, not written a too low a level, not too hype-y, etc. There were so many great recommendations that it was hard to choose! But in the end, I decided to start with:
- How I Killed Pluto (And Why It Had It Coming) by Mike Brown
- The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and...
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from Journal of Ecology blog
Ecologists and evolutionary biologists for many decades happily coexisted largely ignoring each other. This separation was clearest in theory where ecological models assumed fixed, constant parameters, so evolution could not occur, and population genetics models assumed fixed selection coefficients which summarised all underlying ecological process that influence fitness. To an extent this reflected the obvious…
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