Our EIE paper club is mandatory for all PhD, Master and Bachelor students doing a thesis with us. It is still open to anyone that wants to participate, but if you are doing a thesis with us you are supposed to participate in the discussion. This discussion will only happen once a month and it is going to be moderated by one of our Postdocs. The idea here is not to present a paper to you but rather to discuss it in a constructive way. Different Postdocs will also have different approaches and integrate discussions in different ways which will also enrich your skill set.
These paper club discussions will happen on the first Wednesday of the month at 2:30pm online, in person, or hybrid as indicated by the respected Postdoc. Three weeks before, the Postdoc responsible for that specific month will send the relevant paper(s) for discussion. You can always read more papers on the topic so we can have a more lively discussion.
Dates
5 March 2025
Topic: Soil health is associated with higher primary productivity across Europe
Moderator: Marie Sünnemann
5 February 2025
Topic: Competition for time: Evidence for an overlooked, diversity-maintaining competitive mechanism
Moderator: Wenting Wang
8 January 2025
Topic: The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants
Moderator: Olga Ferlian
December 2024
Topic: Land use modulates resistance of grasslands against future climate and inter-annual climate variability in a large field experiment
Moderator: Anna-Maria Madaj
November 2024
Topic: Climate change and cropland management compromise soil integrity and multifunctionality
Moderator: Soroor Rahmanian
October 2024
Topic: Neighbourhood diversity effects on insect herbivory: Plant leaf traits mediate associational resistance
Moderator: Lise Thouvenot
September 2024
Topic: Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution
Moderator: Olga Ferlian
August: Summer break
July 2024
Topic: Universal beta-diversity–functioning relationships are neither observed nor expected
Moderator: Simone Cesarz
June 2024
Topic: Understanding ‘it depends’ in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions
Moderator: Yuanyuan Huang
May 2024
Topic: Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding
Moderator: Rémy Beugnon
April 2024
Topic: Plant diversity and community age stabilize ecosystem multifunctionality
Moderator: Marie Sünnemann
March 2024
Topic: A global indicator of soil macroinvertebrate community composition, abundance and diversity
Moderator: Christian Ristok
February 2024
Topic: Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Pages 32-42; Timothy Morton, 2009, Book)
Moderator: Monica Farfan
January 2024
Topic: Unlocking complex soil systems as carbon sinks: multi-pool management as the key
Moderator: Gerrit Angst