Feike Dijkstra discusses his recent article: Continuous remobilization from belowground provides more than half of all carbon and nitrogen in regrowing shoots after grassland defoliation. Find out more about how C and N remobilization have important consequences for how grasslands respond to grazing intensity and global change factors: 🌱 What we found When aboveground tissue is…
Runa Magnusson discusses her recent article: Spatiotemporal variability in precipitation-growth relations of Betula nana in the Siberian lowland tundra. Warming, greening, thawing – The Arctic is a place of rapid warming and environmental change, with temperatures increasing three to four times faster than the global average. Impacts on Arctic ecosystems and communities include, among many…
The cover image for our June issue shows a ‘deeper look’ into species-rich mountain grassland in the Krkonoše Mountains, Czech Republic. This image relates to the article ‘Plant–soil feedbacks in a diverse grassland: Soil remembers, but not too much‘, by Eliška Kuťáková et al. Here, Eliška tells us the story behind the image: Being a plant ecologist,…
Mario Moura discusses his recent article: Pervasive impacts of climate change on the woodiness and ecological generalism of dry forest plant assemblages. Find out more about the importance of long-term conservation planning for maintaining tropical dry forests. The climate crisis is already a reality for many ecosystems on Earth. Among those ecosystems facing significant challenges…
Natalie Oram and Johannes Ingrisch discuss their recent article: Drought intensity alters productivity, carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in fast versus slow grassland communities. Find out more about how drought intensity affects plant productivity, and plant–soil carbon and nitrogen cycling. We have become so accustomed to hearing the sentence ‘drought events are becoming more…
The cover image for our May issue shows fruiting bodies of the fungus Microporus xanthopus sprout from a dead log in the Daintree rainforest of Queensland, Australia. This image relates to the article ‘Wood traits explain microbial but not termite-driven decay in Australian tropical rainforest and savanna‘ by Stephanie Law et al. Here, co-author Steven Allison tells us…
Throughout April, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2022 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early career research paper published in Journal of Ecology. Kerissa Fuccillo Battle et al.’s article ‘Citizen science across two centuries reveals phenological change among plant species and functional groups in the Northeastern US‘ is one of those…
Throughout April, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2022 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early career research paper published in Journal of Ecology. Jules Segrestin’s article ‘Towards a better ecological understanding of metacommunity stability: A multiscale framework to disentangle population variability and synchrony effects‘ is one of those shortlisted for…
Throughout April, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2022 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early career research paper published in Journal of Ecology. Neha Mohanbabu’s article ‘Large herbivore impact on plant biomass along multiple resource gradients in the Serengeti‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. 👋 About me My…
Throughout April, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2022 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early career research paper published in Journal of Ecology. Kyle Rodman’s article ‘Rocky Mountain forests are poised to recover following bark beetle outbreaks but with altered composition‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. ⭐️ About…
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