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…
Fernando Maestre, Andrea Castillo-Monroy, Matthew Bowker, and Raul Ochoa-Húeso have a paper in Early View in the Journal titled “Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern“. Fernando has written a nice lay summary of the research presented in the paper, which we provide below.
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.
Mike Hutchings et al. published a paper in the recent issue of the Journal entitled “Tansley’s vision for Journal of Ecology, and a Centenary Celebration”. In the aforementioned paper they presented a table breaking down how papers were distributed across different fields of ecology over the past 100 years (or the first 100 volumes of…
Journal of Ecology was the world’s first ecological journal. It was established as the official publication of the newly formed British Ecological Society (BES) in 1913 under the leadership and guidance of the Society’s first President, Sir Arthur Tansley FRS. At its launch, Tansley identified two primary aims for the Journal, namely “to foster and…
As we move into the Journal of Ecology’s Centenary year, it seems like an excellent time to look back at articles in the Journal archives to find out what impact they have had on plant ecologists working in the field today. Journal Editor, David Gibson, kicks off the first post for our “Ecological Inspirations”…
