Dr Tim Curran and colleagues have written a blog post about their recently accepted paper ‘Community-level flammability declines over 25 years of plant invasion in grasslands‘… It is widely recognised that plant invasions result in changes to fire regimes, in some cases even leading to reduced fire frequency and fire intensity. In our study, we show…
University of Connecticut press release A new study of the Amazon rainforest by researchers at UConn and the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation and Research, published in the Journal of Ecology, examines what happens to plants if their seed dispersers are no longer present. When it comes to spreading their seeds, many trees in…
The Editor’s Choice paper for this issue is Woodland resilience to regional drought: Dominant controls on tree regeneration following overstorey mortality by Miranda Redmond and colleagues. Associate Editor Peter Bellingham has taken a closer look at the paper and shares his thoughts below… All but one of the warmest years since 1880, based on global combined land and…
Volume 106 Issue 2 of Journal of Ecology is now online! This issue includes a Special Feature titled ‘Mycorrhizal fungi as drivers and modulators of ecosystem processes‘. Edited by Nina Wurzburger and Karina Clemmensen, the special feature brings together 7 papers and an editorial on the topic of how mycorrhizal fungi contribute to ecosystem function. In…
Sunday 11th February is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To mark this day and celebrate the occasion, we asked some of our Associate Editors to share some of their inspirations and experiences in an effort to find what it really means to be a woman working in ecology. Who are the women in science…
Adam Lovas-Kiss (University of Debrecen), Andy Green (Doñana Biological Station) and colleagues recently had a paper published in Journal of Ecology entitled “Endozoochory of aquatic ferns and angiosperms by mallards in Central Europe”. Andy tells us more about the paper below. People are generally very keen on mallards and other ducks, especially feeding them in…
Mallards are among the most abundant and widespread duck species in the world, yet little attention has been paid to date to their role in spreading plant seeds. A new study in Journal of Ecology reveals a number of plants that were not previously known to be part of the diet of waterbirds. Mallards…
Michael Proctor, an Associate Editor of the Biological Flora of the British Isles series, sadly passed away recently. Tony Davy and Donald Pigott kindly agreed to share their memories of Michael in the below blog post. We have also put together a special virtual issue to celebrate Michael’s contributions to the journal. The Biological Flora of the British…
Dr Buqing Yao tells us more about his recently accepted paper titled ‘Ecosystem nitrogen retention is regulated by plant community trait interactions with nutrient status in an alpine meadow‘. Ecosystem nitrogen retention is a crucial function that underpins productivity and ecological processes. However, there is currently no scientific consensus as to the key ecological factors…
Everyone would agree that Ecology Across Borders (#EAB2017), the joint annual meeting of the BES, Gfö, NECOV and EEF, was a great success. As usual, the quality of talks and the ecological concepts and findings developed during the conference was outstanding. However, what struck me the most was the increasing number of workshops and events…
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