Dr. Phoebe Zarnetske and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in Early View titled Indirect effects and facilitation among native and non-native species promote invasion success along an environmental stress gradient. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper some great photos of the study site.
Dr. Hillary Young and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in Early View titled Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper, and some great photos in the field during their study. Anthropogenic impact is leading…
Dr. Rodríguez-Gironés and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in Early View titled Possible role of weaver ants, Oecophylla smaragdina, in shaping plant-pollinator interactions in SE Asia. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and some great photos of weaver ants and their interactions with pollinators on flowers. Predators can alter…
Nicolas Gross et al. have a paper out in the journal (vol 101, issue 3, pp. 637-49) titled Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands. Read their paper here. We caught up with Nicolas recently to chat about his research.
A special feature was recently published in the journal on whole-plant senescence. Go here to read the papers. I caught up with two of the three editors of that special feature, Rob Salugero-Gomez and Richard Shefferson, to talk about plant senescence.
The prize winners for best papers across the BES journals have been announced. See the announcement here. The Harper Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Ecology has been awarded to Simon Doxford for his paper with Rob Freckleton titled Changes in the large-scale distribution of plants: extinction, colonisation and the effects of climate. Read their paper here.…
Pierre Mariotte and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in vol 101:3 titled Subordinate plant species enhance community resistance against drought in semi-natural grasslands. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo.
We have been doing interviews for the past 1.5 yrs or so, and are now hosted on Soundcloud here. I have not been trained in doing interviews and podcasting, so of course there is some learning to do. One simple thing that I was able to fix thanks to one of the people I interviewed,…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview James Rosindell, of Imperial College London, about OneZoom. Visit OneZoom here: www.onezoom.org. I spoke with James at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Birmingham, UK in December, 2012. This interview took place in person at the metting on 19 December, 2012. A few months have passed and…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Michael Hutchings, who recently stepped down from the Executive Editor position at the Journal of Ecology. I spoke with Mike at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Birmingham, UK in December, 2012. This interview took place in person at the metting on 17 December, 2012. Follow this link to the BES podcast…
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