Ecology and evolution seminars

Ecology and evolution seminars

Royal Society Publishing

This series features a selection of seminars covering outstanding contributions to the fields of ecology and evolution based on articles published in the Royal Society journals Proceedings B, Philosophical Transactions B, Biology Letters, Interface and Royal Society Open Science. Each talk is associated with a recent paper or theme issue, selected by the journal's editors as being particularly innovative or having had significant recent impact.

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Seminars in preparation

Tulane University

Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system

H. Luke Anderson, Tulane University
University of Rhode Island

Guided by the Northern Star Coral: A Research Synthesis and Roadmap for Astrangia poculata

Jill Ashey, University of Rhode Island
Queen Mary University of London

First-sight recognition of touched objects shows that chicks can solve Molyneux’s problem

Elisabetta Versace, Queen Mary University of London
Indiana University

A novel carnivorous diet reduces brain telomere length

Alexander Shephard, Indiana University
McMaster University

Vampire bats rapidly fuel running with essential or nonessential amino acids from a blood meal

Giulia Rossi, McMaster University
Pennsylvania State University

Hormetic response to pesticides in diapausing bees

Etya Amsalem, Pennsylvania State University

Published seminars

Linnaeus University

Transient cognitive impacts of oxygen deprivation caused by catch-and-release angling

Henrik Flink, Linnaeus University
Wellcome Sanger Institute
University of Leicester

Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in isopods

Jessica Thomas Thorpe, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Roberto Feuda, University of Leicester
Sewanee: The University of the South

Genetic variation in age-dependent attractiveness in a fish with a mixed mating system

Katie McGhee, Sewanee: The University of the South
Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Wild fish use visual cues to recognise individual divers

Maëlan Tomasek, Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Katinka Soller, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare

Jean-Loup Rault, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
SUNY Geneseo

A deep-sea isopod that consumes Sargassum sinking from the ocean’s surface

Johanna Weston, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mackenzie Gerringer, State University of New York at Geneseo
Nihon University

Hidden population turnover of small odontocetes in the northwestern North Pacific during the Holocene

Takushi Kishida, Nihon University
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sweating the small stuff: exploring the microclimate ecology of grassland birds

Jacy Bernath-Plaisted, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Liverpool John Moores University

Dinosaur locomotion

Peter Falkingham, Liverpool John Moores University