by admin | Dec 30, 2017 | Ecology
In 2001, Nicholas Gotelli and Robert Colwell published a review paper in Ecology Letters that flagged common mistakes that ecologists were making in measuring and comparing species richness, and suggested ways to avoid such mistakes. Even today, 15 years after its... by admin | Dec 30, 2017 | Behaviour, Evolution
In 1984, Gerald Wilkinson published a paper in Nature showing that vampire bats share food in the form of regurgitated blood, within groups that contain both kin and non-kin. This was one of the first clear documentations of reciprocity in animals, and the paper went... by admin | Dec 30, 2017 | Behaviour
In 2000, Mandyam Srinivasan, Shaowu Zhang, Monika Altwein and Jürgen Tautz published a paper in Science showing that bees estimated distance travelled during flights by “the extent to which the image of the world has moved on the eye”. In January 2016, I revisited... by admin | Dec 30, 2017 | Conservation, Ecology
In 1994, Shahid Naeem, Lindsey Thompson, Sharon Lawler, John Lawton and Richard Woodfin published a paper in the journal Nature that inspired a large body of work on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning and went on to become a “citation classic”. I spoke to Shahid Naeem...