New Journal of Ecology paper: Apparent predation slows down invasion of red oak in Europe

Accepted! Yesterday, we’ve got an acceptation letter from Journal of Ecology for a paper I co-wrote with Nathanael Lichti and Rafał Zwolak, entitled “Consumer-mediated indirect interaction with a native plant lowers the fitness of an invasive competitor”. The paper describes an experiment I did two summers ago. We tracked red oak (Quercus rubra) and sessile…

Special issue “Plant-Animal Interactions: Patterns and Mechanisms in Terrestrial Ecosystem”

The May issue of the Integrative Zoology is a special issue edited by Mike Steele, Xianfeng Yi, and Hongmao Zhang. It features lots of great papers by a diverse group of people working on complexities of plant-animal interactions. The issue follows a colloquium on plant-animal interactions at the 9th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology on August, 27-31,…

Journal of Ecology paper on oak reproduction assigned to March issue

The paper that was accepted in the journal last year is now assigned to March issue 🙂 I wrote a short summary of the research for Journal of Ecology blog, and for UAM website (both in Polish and English). Hope you will like it!

Autumn field season is over

We have finished month-long intense field work testing the mechanisms of red oak invasion in European forests. During last few weeks we have sowed acorns of both species at different distances from trees (of red oak and European oak) to test whether seed transportation by rodents positively affects germination probability of acorns. We have also conducted seed…

Field work lunched!

For the past few days we built enclosures for small mammals at Gorzowska Forest. These are for Rafał project and we are going to test whether animal personality matters when it comes to plant-animal interactions. Here are some pics, enjoy! 🙂