Author James Dalling discusses recent paper “Nutrient availability predicts multiple stem frequency, an indicator of species resprouting capacity in tropical forests” by Heineman, Turner and Dalling. Read on to find out more about variations in the resprouting ability of tropical trees. The life of a tree is seldom the unobstructed path of a single stem…
The Editor’s Choice for our February issue is “Spatial mapping of root systems reveals diverse strategies of soil exploration and resource contest in grassland plants“ by Lepik et al. This article combines fine‐scale measurements of plant root distributions with spatial statistics, yielding new insights into plant behavioural strategies. Here the handling Editor, JC Cahill, provides an overview…
How Will Climate Change Affect Community Stability? There’s a great deal of concern and uncertainty over the patterns and causal mechanisms that underlie community grassland change in response to climate change (Ratajczak & Ladwig 2019). Experimental work is needed to better understand the potentially synergistic effects of global change stressors on stability of grasslands. In…
Author Hao Ran Lai discusses recently published Journal of Ecology article: “Functional traits that moderate tropical tree recruitment during post-windstorm secondary succession” by Lai et al. Find out more about their study on what causes differences in tree recruitment in a tropical lowland forest in Singapore. Understanding how species respond to environmental changes is becoming an…
Author Qianna Xu provides further insights for their new research article, which explores the impacts of nitrogen and water levels on plant community composition. Recently published in Journal of Ecology, Volume 107 Issue 5. This article is part of our latest Special Feature: Is Phylogenetic and Functional Trait Diversity a Driver or a Consequence of…
The cover image for Journal of Ecology’s latest issue was taken by Marina LaForgia. Author of “Functional diversity is a passenger but not driver of drought‐related plant diversity losses in annual grasslands.” First author, Jesse E.D. Miller, gives us more details on the research behind the photo. This article is part of our latest Special…
The latest issue of Journal of Ecology includes a Special Feature guest edited by Nicholas Barber, David Gibson and Holly Jones. Below, Holly discusses the inspiration behind the Special Feature & summarises each of the research articles. When scientists think of healthy ecosystems, they often think of ecosystems that have lots of different species. Diverse ecosystems are more resilient,…
Gretchen Brownstein and company have an accepted paper in the Journal titled “Chance in plant communities: a new approach to its measurement using the nugget from spatial autocorrelation “. Read the abstract here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo of one of their study sites on the South Island, New Zealand.
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.
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…
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