The editors of Journal of Ecology would like to invite proposals for new special features to be published in the journal. Journal of Ecology has been publishing special features since 2008, and recent examples include Biotic Controls of Plant Coexistence, Ecological Succession in a Changing World and Macroevolutionary Perspectives on Biotic Interactions. We will now…
Yong Luo and colleagues recently had their paper published in Journal of Ecology. Read more about their work below. Global change ecologists have often used trees under weak competition to examine relationships between climatic change and tree growth. Scaling up these results to a forest relies on the assumption that the climatic change-tree growth relationship…
Michael Foisy and colleagues contributed a paper to our latest special feature: Macroevolutionary perspectives on biotic interactions. Find out more about their paper below. A brief history of the project When an insect chomps on a plant, sometimes the plant tissue will release latex or resin – a “goo” that can be toxic, difficult to digest,…
Volume 107 Issue 4 of Journal of Ecology is now available online! This latest issue of Journal of Ecology includes a special feature titled Macroevolutionary perspectives on biotic interactions. The special feature, edited by Richard Shefferson from University of Tokyo, Japan, consists of 8 research papers and an introductory editorial. This issue also includes our annual Harper…
Press release from the University of Cádiz The interactions between soil nutrients change significantly with increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Ecology and led by Dr. Raúl Ochoa-Hueso from the University of Cádiz. This study, carried out in a native eucalypt woodland in Australia, showed how soil…
This year’s Harper Prize winner is Rutuja Chitra-Tarak for her paper; The roots of the drought: Hydrology and water uptake strategies mediate forest‐wide demographic response to precipitation. Rutuja received a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, went onto to do a post-doc at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA, and is now a post-doctoral…
This year’s Harper Prize winner is Rutuja Chitra-Tarak for her paper; The roots of the drought: Hydrology and water uptake strategies mediate forest‐wide demographic response to precipitation. Rutuja received a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, went onto to do a post-doc at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA, and is now a post-doctoral…
To celebrate World Oceans Day 2019 – read more about Mahasweta Saha and Florian Weinberger‘s paper on microbial gardening below. This classic nursery rhyme is very much applicable to our recently published Journal of Ecology study. How? To answer that I have a question for you: what do we have in common between a seaweed…
Our latest review paper is by Christian Damgaard and Kathryn Irvine on the subject of analyzing plant cover data. Read more about their paper below. Plant cover is a measure of the two-dimensional projection of plant species onto the surface and is the most commonly used measure of plant abundance. There are numerous historic and…
This week the BES journals are focussing on how to survive at conferences! Our Associate Editor, Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez, gives some tips for making the most of conferences – before, during and after. I am a demographer, and as such, I am interested not only in how individuals survive, but also in what allows them…
The editors are delighted to announce that we are now considering International Biological Flora submissions. Building on the successful and popular Biological Flora of the British Isles series of papers, which has been published in Journal of Ecology since 1941, the journal Editors are pleased to announce the launch of a new associated paper type, the International Biological Flora species accounts.…
Read more about Xiao Sun and colleagues’ Journal of Ecology study on volatiles of compounds (VOCs) and the performance of herbivores… The interactions of aboveground and belowground herbivory can determine species populations and community composition. The outcome of the interactions can differ between conspecific and heterospecific aboveground and belowground herbivores, with conspecific herbivores enhancing their…
Happy Fascination of Plants Day! Today is the fifth international ‘Fascination of Plants Day‘ launched by plant scientists across the world under the umbrealla of the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO). To celebrate plants, here is a collection of the beautiful plant pictures that we received from authors during the past year! You can also…
Nuria Pistón and colleagues recently had their paper on functional traits and fitness published in Journal of Ecology. Nuria tells us more about the study below. Trait-based approaches are extensively used in ecology to examine species interactions and species response to environmental change. However, although the link between traits and fitness is essential for the definition…
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Plymouth Marine Laboratory press release. Scientists from Kiel and Plymouth show for the first time health-promoting microbial manipulation in aquatic plants. The study was published today in Journal of Ecology. The composition of the microbial community living in or on a larger organism plays an important role for…
