A paper in Early View in the Journal (Trait evolution and the coexistence of a species swarm in the tropical forest understorey) by Brian Sedio and colleagues explores how a plant species in the genus Psychotria coexist in the understorey of tropical rainforests in Panama. Read the abstract here. I caught up with Brian last week to…
A paper in Early View in the Journal (Endemic plant communities on special soils: early victims or hardy survivors of climate change?) by Ellen Damschen and colleagues explores the consequences of climate change for plants on serpentine soil communities. Read the abstract here. I caught up with Ellen to do a video interview. Subscribe to our YouTube…
An accepted paper in the Journal (Long-term demographic consequences of eavesdropping for sagebrush) by Rick Karban and colleagues explores the consequences of volatile communication in sagebrush. Read the abstract here. I caught up with Rick to do a video interview. Subscribe to our YouTube posts by pressing the Subscribe button on the YouTube page (search ‘JournalOfEcology’), or…
A paper in 100:2 at the Journal (Willows indirectly reduce arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization in understorey communities) by Katie Becklin and colleagues explores how willow (Salix) reduce arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization in plant communities in Colorado. Read the paper here. I caught up with Katie to do a video interview. Subscribe to our YouTube posts by pressing the…
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…
A paper in Early View at the Journal (“Significance and extent of secondary seed dispersal by predatory birds on oceanic islands: the case of the Canary archipelago”) by David Padilla, Aarón González-Castro, and Manuel Nogales, explores secondary dispersal on the Canary Islands. Read the paper here. I caught up with David recently to do our…
What factors are responsible for differences in the abundance of species? This question—perhaps the most fundamental in ecology, and of critical importance for conservation—was addressed by Ryan Phillips, Matthew Barrett, Kingsley Dixon and Steve Hopper in a recent paper in the Journal [1], for which Ryan (as lead author) was awarded the Harper Prize.
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