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The Speaker from ETH Zurich has the Floor – Crowther Lab goes to the G20
Justin recounts his experience at the G20 climate working group meetings and highlights the importance of science engaging with policymakers
Paper in a Day, or how to make the most of our interdisciplinary team
Nina reflects upon the benefits of interdisciplinary teamwork and writing up her first paper on mapping soil nitrogen.
Interview with the 5 nominees of the Climathon Cities Award 2019
What motivated your city to participate in the inaugural Climathon Cities Award? Dublin City Council engaged in the 2019 Climathon held by Trinity College Dublin. The council engaged with various st...
Smells Like Team Spirit
I joined the Crowther Lab about 18 months ago, after arguing with Tom Crowther for about 3 days about why he definitely DID NOT want to hire me. I was a civilian after all, a non-academic, with zero ...
Global Soil Biodiversity and Biogeochemistry, Q&A
By Crowther Lab The soil community is comprised of all the living organisms found in the soil, including fungi, bacteria, archaea, protists and animals. The organisms in this community drive the...
Soil nematodes at global scale, Q&A
By Crowther Lab The previous estimate was approximately three times smaller. Moreover, as nematodes are also found in environments that we did not include in our study, such as deeper soil layers or a...
Tree restoration potential, Q&A
When the journal Science published our paper on the global tree restoration potential in 2019, it grabbed headlines. We found that outside of urban and agricultural areas, there’s 0.9 billion hectar...
Towards a Global Community Ecology
By Daniel Maynard Ecology is heading towards a crossroads. The past century of ecological research has provided amazing insight the into inner working of natural ecosystems, with much of this knowledg...
The elevator pitch: communicating science in under 3 minutes
By Constantin Zohner and Thomas Crowther One year.This is the average amount of time a scientist spends working on an individual paper. Six months.This is the average length of the process spanning form submitting the paper to a scientific journal to it being published, given the paper is neither rejected nor sent back with major comments...…
To protect our species, we need to know they exist.
External link » https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/48014-to-protect-our-species-we-need-to-know-they-exist