Editor’s Selections: Mating and Meat, Frenemies, and Size Matters for both Sieves and Masting
October 29th, 2009 Editor's Selections No Comments
Jarrett Byrnes focuses on posts in ecology, environmental sciences, and evolution. He blogs at I’m a chordata, urochordata!
- Eric Johnson over at The Primate Diaries blasts the media coverage of intriguing new work showing how chimp mate choice is influences by meat sharing. A great example of an interesting study twisted by bad science reporting.
- Sometimes, the enemy of your enemy really is your friend. Particularly when your own worst predators can keep out invasive competitors.
- What’s more important to a deep sea biologist – the size of your sieve or how you use it? Kevin Zelnio discusses new work suggesting sieve size can really matter. A lot.
- Over at Denim and Tweed, we find that synchronization between trees resulting in big resource pulses (so called masting) may arise through a mixture of resource and pollen limitation, rather than any internal physiological clock. Definitely not what most folk are taught in Ecology 101.
