Issue 3 is now online and features the paper by Ireland & Booth as the Editor’s Choice for this issue: “Upland deforestation triggered an ecosystem state-shift in a kettle peatland”. You can read the Editor’s Choice article by Amy Austin in a previous blog post.
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.
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.
Amy Austin discusses the Editor’s Choice for issue 3, by Alex Ireland & Robert Booth. Enjoy! Issue 3 will appear online next week. As usual, the issue will be filled with cracking papers! Happy Easter from Journal of Ecology! Editor´s Choice March 2012 Human impact on the landscape through alteration of vegetation is occurring globally,…
Laura Galloway and Kevin Burgess have a paper in Early View in the Journal titled “Artificial selection on flowering time: influence on reproductive phenology across natural light environments “. Read it here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and an nice photo of the plant species they studied.
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…
Stephanie Bohlman and Stephen Pacala have a paper in 100:2 in the Journal titled “A forest structure model that determines crown layers and partitions growth and mortality rates for landscape-scale applications of tropical forests“. Read it here. Stephanie has provided a short synopsis of the paper and an example photo used in their study.
Marko Spasojevic and Katharine Suding have a paper in Early View in the Journal titled “Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes“. Read it here. We posted an interview with Marko here. Marko has provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo of the study site. Enjoy.
Paul Richardson and colleagues have a paper in Early View in the Journal titled “Fine-scale spatial heterogeneity and incoming seed diversity additively determine plant establishment“. Read it here. The authors have provided a very thorough description of their study with many beautiful pictures of their study sites. Enjoy.
Alejandro Ruete and colleagues have a paper in the Journal (100:2) titled “Hierarchical Bayesian estimation of the population viability of an epixylic moss“. Read it here. The authors have provided a motivation for their study, a brief description of their major finding below, and a picture of their study organism.
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