It’s not just about how much rain falls: What 24 years taught us about Mediterranean plant productivity

Marcelo Sternberg, Tel Aviv University, discusses his article: Rainfall memory and spring atmospheric demand predict herbaceous biomass production in Mediterranean ecosystems When the same amount of rain does not produce the same amount of plants In Mediterranean ecosystems, rainfall seems like the obvious place to look when trying to understand plant production. More rain should…

In late-successional forest communities, how much does history matter?

Author Kerry Woods discusses recently published Journal of Ecology article: Over 80 years without major disturbance, late‐successional Białowieża woodlands exhibit complex dynamism, with coherent compositional shifts towards true old‐growth conditions by Brzeziecki et al. Find out more about the importance of long-term data when considering old-growth forest dynamics. Thirty years ago, John Magnuson wrote of the…