Tree species diversity increases root productivity
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.
Plant apparency drives associational resistance to insect herbivory
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.
Editor’s Choice 101:2
We are pleased to announce that the next Editor’s Choice will be The ancient forests of La Gomera, Canary Islands, and their sensitivity to environmental change by Nogué et al. This paper will be free to access when 101: 2 is published online. Editor’s Choice 101:2 While this Editor’s Choice “The ancient forests of La Gomera,…
New Journal of Ecology Editor – Amy Austin
Introducing – Amy Austin A quick note to introduce myself, Amy Austin, as I have just joined the clan at Journal of Ecology as an Editor starting in January. After having been invited to join as an Associate Editor for the Journal two years ago, I have to say that this group has been so…
Herbivore-induced plant volatiles provide resistance against herbivores
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.
What are the consequence of losing nitrogen-fixing shrubs?
Mark St. John and company have a paper in the Journal in volume 100:5 titled “Loss of a dominant nitrogen-fixing shrub in primary succession: consequences for plant and below-ground communities”. Read the abstract here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a few photos. Many ecosystems throughout the world are gaining some species and…
Modelling effects of seed dispersal patterns and natural enemy attack on seedling spatial patterns
Noelle Beckman and company have an early-view paper in the Journal titled “The interacting effects of clumped seed dispersal and distance- and density-dependent mortality on seedling recruitment patterns”. Read the abstract here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo of spider monkeys on Barro Colorado Island.
Randomness in community structure
Gretchen Brownstein and company have an accepted paper in the Journal titled “Chance in plant communities: a new approach to its measurement using the nugget from spatial autocorrelation “. Read the abstract here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo of one of their study sites on the South Island, New Zealand.
Interplay between timing, size, and sex
Ishii and Harder have an accepted paper in the Journal titled “Phenological associations of within- and among-plant variation in gender with floral morphology and integration in protandrous Delphinium glaucum“. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and two photos of their study species, Delphinium glaucum.
Invasion vs. Fragmentation: pollinator response to anthropogenic land-use change
Ana Montero-Castaño and Montserrat Vilà have a paper in Early View in the Journal titled “Impact of landscape alteration and invasions on pollinators: a meta-analysis“. Read it here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and an photo of an example fragmented landscape and invasive plant species.
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