The editor’s choice for our September issue is ‘Short-term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure‘ by Dennis Choi et al. Here, Associate Editor Tommaso Jucker discusses the importance of this research: The launch of the Landsat satellite program in the 1970s forever changed our view of Earth’s biosphere – its oceans, its grasslands, its deserts,…
Niko Kulha discusses his recent article: Competition-induced tree mortality across Europe is driven by shade tolerance, proportion of conspecifics and drought. Climate change is altering the conditions and context for tree growth in myriad ways, including increasing forest stand density and tree biomass. These changes in tree neighborhoods suggest increased tree-tree competition, which may increase…
Sarah Sapsford discusses her recent article: Slow soil enzyme recovery following invasive tree removal linked to bacterial and fungal communities. 🌲 The tree invasion problem Pine trees have been planted around the world for their fast growing and useful timber. But sometimes these trees can become highly invasive – and when they do, they may change…
Vítek Latzel and colleagues discuss their latest research, published in the Journal of Ecology: Phenotypic diversity generated by a transposable element increases productivity and resistance to competitors in plant populations. Read on to find out more about the role of transposons in biodiversity and resilience: The last decades of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments have attempted to…
Greta la Bella discusses her recent article: Drivers of plant community (in)stability along a sea-inland gradient. Read on to find out about the species ecological characteristics that promote the stability of coastal dune ecosystems: ————————————————————————————————————————————– ❓ What is stability? Global change pressures are threatening the stability of natural ecosystems worldwide, i.e. an ecosystem’s ability to…
In this video, Magda Garbowski summarises their recent article: Nutrient enrichment alters seasonal beta-diversity in global grasslands: 📽️ Transcript: Plant communities are constantly changing, sometimes even with in a single growing season. For example, some species may grow in the spring, whereas others may dominate in the fall. This temporal niche partitioning allows plants to use…
Mudrák Ondrej discusses his recent article: Ecological significance of standing dead phytomass: Marcescence as a puzzle piece to the nutrient cycle in temperate ecosystems. ❄️ Why do some plants retain their dead tissues and others don’t? As the winter approaches and the first freezing temperatures sweep across temperate climates, plants become dormant and shed their leaves.…
Feike Dijkstra discusses his recent article: Continuous remobilization from belowground provides more than half of all carbon and nitrogen in regrowing shoots after grassland defoliation. Find out more about how C and N remobilization have important consequences for how grasslands respond to grazing intensity and global change factors: 🌱 What we found When aboveground tissue is…
The editor’s choice for our August issue is “Seasonality regulates the structure and biogeochemical impact of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities across environmentally divergent neotropical dry forests“ by Katilyn Beidler et al. Here, Associate Editor James Dalling discusses the importance of this research: We usually think of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) tree species in the tropics as occurring on the tops of mountains…
Runa Magnusson discusses her recent article: Spatiotemporal variability in precipitation-growth relations of Betula nana in the Siberian lowland tundra. Warming, greening, thawing – The Arctic is a place of rapid warming and environmental change, with temperatures increasing three to four times faster than the global average. Impacts on Arctic ecosystems and communities include, among many…
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