Functional Ecologists

We’re delighted to celebrate the winner of Functional Ecology’s sponsored prize for the Best Lightning Talk award at the Aquatic Ecology SIG Annual Meeting 2026, Sarah Sandor (she/her)! Read Sarah’s blog post o...

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ post, author Cristóbal Anguita – a researcher at the Wildlife Ecology Laboratory at the University of Chile – discusses his article “When is the bait worth the risk? A mechanistic model of a compensatory ecological trap in seabirds“. Cristóbal e...

Las pesquerías pueden representar una fuente de alimento muy atractiva para las aves marinas. Los descartes y otros recursos asociados a los barcos ofrecen alimento abundante y predecible, lo que puede facilitar el forrajeo e incluso aumentar la reproducción o el reclutamiento. Pero esos mismos barcos también pueden representar una fuent...

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Vinícius Brito – a professor at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil – disucusses the article “Pollen landscape saturation on pollinator bodies reduces pollen deposition by subsequently visited bat-pollinated flowe...

Nos animais, os papéis sexuais masculino e feminino costumam estar claramente divididos entre os indivíduos. Porém, em muitas plantas, esses papéis são menos distintos, pois uma mesma flor pode desempenhar tanto a função masculina quanto a feminina. Estamos familiarizados com a ideia de que os animais competem pelo acesso a parceiros, mas é...