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Welcome Gregor Kalinkat - new SE

editor
7 June 2019
We are very happy to welcome Gregor Kalinkat to our editorial board! Read more about him in this interview! What's you main research focus at the moment? I just started a new position as a senior researcher in Franz Hölker's lab at the Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater...

Welcome Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos - new SE

editor
26 May 2019
We are very happy to welcome Ignacio Manuel Pérez-Ramos, Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology (IRNAS); Superior Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), Seville, Spain, to our editorial board. Get to know him a bit better in the interview below, and do visit...

Beauty of collaborative experiments

editor
30 April 2019
I always am fascinated by the possibility of tweaking certain parameters and seeing their effects on a given process or a pattern. Experiments are usually my way of doing it. During my post-doc at iDiv, my office was next to a fungal ecologist-Ainhoa Martinez. We often...

Cover April

editor
11 April 2019
The photo on the April cover shows two black legged kittiwakes at nests on Puffin Island, one of the three study sites in the paper " Environmental heterogeneity amplifies behavioural response to a temporal cycle ". The paper studies the effect of a predictable...

Do water plants clean up water?

editor
2 April 2019
Anyone who has had an aquarium or a garden pond is likely to be familiar with the concept of water plants (macrophytes) helping to keep the water clean. In freshwater lakes, macrophytes are doing exactly that. Recall the lakes that you may have visited—you might notice...

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