The Ecological Mind: ecology, research, creativity
Matthias C. RilligIdeas and thoughts about ecology, soil, biodiversity, environment, global change. One of the goals to generate opportunities for creativity and collaboration. So if you find a post interesting, let me know and contribute!
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How many different versions of soils were there at the beginning of terrestrial ecosystems?
Maybe there was a huge diversity of early soils, before land plants (Pic: M. Rillig; this is a color pencil and oil pastel drawing I made: I imagined the x axis to be time)
In the writing of two recent papers, one appearing soon in Current...
Doing research in soil ecology with the simplest means possible
Is there value to thinking about doing low-cost research in soil ecology? (Pic: M. Rillig)
I remember a talk given at the Leopoldina meeting in Halle (Germany) by Lars Chittka on bees; I was so impressed by how much interesting science cou...
Establishing causality in experiments: how deep is deep enough?
Is there a trend towards extreme mechanistic resolution? (Pic: M. Rillig)
Reading some papers these days, one sometimes marvels at the depth to which researchers follow the chain of causality. Perhaps it is even becoming a recipe for unloc...
Mycorrhizal fungi: important for soil functioning and soil persistence?
What groups of soil biota are important for major ecosystem processes and for soil persistence? (Pic: M. Rillig)
As readers of this newsletter might know, I have been interested in operationalizing soil persistence (the capacity of a soil...
Major flaw in a published paper: do you tell the authors?
How to react when a paper has major flaws? (Pic: M. Rillig, drawing)
I am guessing that almost everyone has at some point read a paper that isn’t perfect, because no paper ever is. We read papers in lab meeting every week throughout the ye...
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Professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin. Works on and writes about soil ecology, biodiversity, global environmental change, and fungi. New ideas, creativity in ecological research. Book author. Highly cited researcher.
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