University of Wisconsin–Madison press release It is widely known that the white-tailed deer is a nonstop eater. Unless it is sleeping or fleeing from a predator, the keystone North American herbivore is nearly always nibbling. Ecologically, deer herbivory is a fairly well understood phenomenon. The presence, abundance and reproductive success of many plant species are…
A new study from the Department of Soil Quality at Wageningen University and the Department of Terrestrial Ecology at Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) gives evidence that plants grow better in soil from other species. Published today in Journal of Ecology, the paper is written by Cortois et al. and is titled ‘Plant-soil feedbacks: role of plant functional group and plant traits‘. …
A new study from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen, published in Journal of Ecology today, shows that small changes in ocean salinity and temperature can significantly affect the distribution and diversity of phytoplankton. The paper was written by Mousing et al. and is titled; Evidence of small-scale spatial structuring of phytoplankton alpha-…
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