Norman Mason and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in Early View titled “Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity“. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short description of their research below, with some pictures of their study sites.
The following is a guest post by Joseph Mudge, who published a paper with colleagues recently arguing for a different approach to setting α values. Joseph has written a summary of the argument below. Please chime in with your thoughts. Do you agree/disagree?
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…
Zhang et al. have a paper in Early View titled “Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta-analysis“. Read it here. The authors have provided a succinct description of their paper in the Journal.
There are many papers in Early View here, check them out. I wanted to highlight just a few of them that I personally thought were interesting. Marko Spasojevic and Suding (here) examine community assembly mechanisms via functional diversity patterns. How communities are assembled is a very classic question in ecology. Papers on this topic often…
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.
Roberto integrates research questions in ecology and evolutionary biology by using a variety of methods that include histology, plant ecophysiology, diographic discrete and continuous models, and comparative biology. His research focuses mostly on the exploration of strategies that allow organisms to survive in arid environments, particularly in the light of climate change, and the conditions…
Roses are red (sometimes), the Journal cover is blue. What better way to spend st Valentine’s than reading Issue 2? The new issue is now online and you can read it here> This is the first Journal issue to include a new online feature providing direct links to any extra articles about the paper.
Dispersal of seeds and fruits by animal vectors plays a key role in regeneration of plant communities. Most often, seed dispersal is accomplished by a single animal disperser, but in some systems dispersal is achieved through two dispersers. Secondary seed dispersal is generally thought to be a fairly stochastic process that is difficult to study…
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…
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