Good science doesn't reach policy on its own. A workshop on what engagement really takes: starting with a phone call.

There’s quite the hullabaloo, these days, around the use of so-called “AI” writing tools (more precisely “large language models” – ChatGPT and its kin) in writing. And I write a lot, including writ…

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Anoxia in lakes has intensified in recent decades, threatening ecosystem functioning. Yet, the mechanisms driving long-term trends in anoxia intensity and duration are complex, especially in managed e...

Abstract. Predator and prey communities are important putative drivers of phenotypic variation in consumers. However, in natural food webs, we often lack a

Abstract. Predator and prey communities are important putative drivers of phenotypic variation in consumers. However, in natural food webs, we often lack a

Prof. Charmain Levy, an eminent scholar of international development studies, feminist studies and social sciences from the Université du Québec en Outaouais, shares her thoughts on successful strateg...

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Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...

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Spatial environmental heterogeneity is an important driver of aquatic biodiversity. Ecological and evolutionary theory often consider spatial heterogeneity as being driven by exogenous factors, yet h...

Jeremy made a compelling case that the typical scientist produces modest contributions to the field but that is enough (it is still leaving the world better than we found it). But several commentor…

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

This is a reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne), inspired by a classic, self-published manual of automotive repair ‘for the compleat idiot’...

The WSL Biodiversity Center is pleased to announce the third summer school on blue-green biodiversity.

Rebecca Oester is an aquatic ecologist with focus on biodiversity, ecosystem functions and aquatic-terrestrial linkages

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Speciation will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.

Leveraging metabarcoding and metagenomics, a survey of bacteria in the benthic microbiome across 152 glacier-fed streams (GFSs) provides a global reference for future climate-change microbiology studi...

The Atlantic herring is one of the world’s most abundant vertebrates and a typical plankton feeder of major ecological importance. This study shows that a piscivorous (fish-eating) ecotype of herring ...