Check out this new paper, published in Agricultural and Forest Entomology! “The case for open research in entomology: Reducing harm, refining reproducibility and advancing insect science” Open research is crucial for scientific advancement and has been successfully adopted across many disciplines. Entomology has, however, been slow to adopt it, despite some really important ethical and practicalContinueContinue reading “NEW PAPER: The case for open research in entomology: Reducing harm, refining reproducibility and advancing insect science”
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NEW PAPER: Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks
Check out our new paper, published in Ecological Entomology! “Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks” The data we use to assess prey choice in the field can drastically change what we find. This may be intuitive, but it’s also a little more complicated than you might think…ContinueContinue reading “NEW PAPER: Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks”
NEW PAPER: Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice
This new paper uses multivariate analysis and null network models to investigate how weather impacts the prey communities, diet, foraging choices and web structures of spiders in cereal crops, and how these data could be used to inform predictive models.
Foraging Ecology Research Group 