The next issue of Journal of Ecology will be published online soon. We are really pleased to announce that the Editor’s Choice article from issue 101:3 is “Specialist species of wood-inhabiting fungi struggle while generalists thrive in fragmented boreal forests” by Nordén et al. Read a commentary on the paper below, written by Journal of Ecology Associate Editor…
Dr. Brian Brassard and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in vol 101:1 titled Tree species diversity increases fine root productivity through increased soil volume filling. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a nice photo.
Dr. Jesse Lasky and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in early view titled Trait-mediated effects of environmental filtering on tree community dynamics. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a few photos.
Ali Zakir and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in early view “Herbivore-induced plant volatiles provide associational resistance against an ovipositing herbivore”. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo.
Brian Brassard and company have a paper in the Journal in volume 101:1 titled “Tree species diversity increases fine root productivity through increased soil volume filling”. Read the abstract here.
Castagneyrol and company have a paper in the Journal in Early View titled “Plant apparency, an overlooked driver of associational resistance to insect herbivory”. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a few photos.
The #BES12 meeting has come and gone.Here are some notes from some of the talks I attended: Francesco de Bello – Gave a talk on “Functional species pool framework to disentangle biotic and abiotic effects on community assembly ” – Read his related paper by de Bello in Ecology here. I just completed an interview with Francesco…
Zakir and company have a paper in Early View titled “Herbivore-induced plant volatiles provide associational resistance against an ovipositing herbivore”. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo.
Issue 101:1 of Journal of Ecology will be published online very soon. The latest Editor’s Choice is Tree effects on grass growth in savannas: competition, facilitation and the stress-gradient hypothesis by Dohn et al. Editor’s Choice 101:1 Ecologists have been scratching their heads over how competitive and facilitative interactions vary with ecosystem productivity and abiotic…
In our third podcast in the EcoGist series, Gaku Kudo of Hokkaido University in Japan describes his paper on pollination linkage between canopy trees and understorey plants in a cool-temperate forest in Japan. Read the paper in the journal here.
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