Marko Spasojevic and Katharine Suding have a paper in Early View in the Journal titled “Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes“. Read it here. We posted an interview with Marko here. Marko has provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo of the study site. Enjoy.
Paul Richardson and colleagues have a paper in Early View in the Journal titled “Fine-scale spatial heterogeneity and incoming seed diversity additively determine plant establishment“. Read it here. The authors have provided a very thorough description of their study with many beautiful pictures of their study sites. Enjoy.
Alejandro Ruete and colleagues have a paper in the Journal (100:2) titled “Hierarchical Bayesian estimation of the population viability of an epixylic moss“. Read it here. The authors have provided a motivation for their study, a brief description of their major finding below, and a picture of their study organism.
Norman Mason and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in Early View titled “Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity“. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short description of their research below, with some pictures of their study sites.
The following is a guest post by Joseph Mudge, who published a paper with colleagues recently arguing for a different approach to setting α values. Joseph has written a summary of the argument below. Please chime in with your thoughts. Do you agree/disagree?
A paper in Early View at the Journal (Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes) by Marko Spasojevic and Katharine Suding explores community assembly mechanisms through functional traits. Read the paper here. I caught up with Marko recently to do a video interview on his paper recently published in the Journal. Subscribe…
Zhang et al. have a paper in Early View titled “Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta-analysis“. Read it here. The authors have provided a succinct description of their paper in the Journal.
There are many papers in Early View here, check them out. I wanted to highlight just a few of them that I personally thought were interesting. Marko Spasojevic and Suding (here) examine community assembly mechanisms via functional diversity patterns. How communities are assembled is a very classic question in ecology. Papers on this topic often…
Ignacio Pérez-Ramos et al. have a paper in volume 100, issue 2 titled “Ontogenetic conflicts and rank reversals in two Mediterranean oak species: implications for coexistence“. Read it here. The authors have provided some beautiful pictures of their study area and a description of their research and where it was done.
Beatriz Baker-Méio and Robert Marquis have a paper in volume 100:1 in the Journal titled “Context-dependent benefits from ant-plant mutualism in three sympatric varieties of Chamaecrista desvauxii“. Their topic of variation in species interaction outcomes is close to my heart, so I am glad to see more attention on this topic. Beatriz has written a…
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