Coexistence in Mediterranean oaks

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.

Conditionality in ant-plant mutualisms

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…

Journal of Ecology Photo Features

We receive many great photos from authors which, for one reason or another, are not selected for the journal cover (plus, we can only choose one photo for each issue!).  The blog gives us an opportunity to feature these author’s photos together with a lay summary. Here are a couple of images from papers recently…