FE: Haldane Prizewinner Kyle Demes talks to Duncan Irschick about the advantages of fragile fronds
Survival of the weakest seems an unlikely title f…
September 30, 20147m 25s
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Show Notes
Survival of the weakest seems an unlikely title for paper in ecology, but that is exactly what they found in their Haldane prizewinning paper, as Kyle Demes explains in this podcast.
Demes, K. W., Pruitt, J. N., Harley, C. D.G., Carrington, E. (2013), Survival of the weakest: increased frond mechanical strength in a wave-swept kelp inhibits self-pruning and increases whole-plant mortality. Functional Ecology, 27: 439–445. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12067
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12067/abstract