Melisa A. Giorgis, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, discusses her article: Post-fire trajectories reveal a legacy effect and decoupled structural and floristic responses in a seasonally dry subtropical mountain region, in both English and Spanish. A complex debate Many areas of the world with open vegetation are at the center of extensive debates in scientific,…
Pilar Hurtado Aragüés, Global Change Research Institute and Department of Biology (Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain), discusses her article: Network modularity analysis reveals strategies for strengthening forest resistance, recovery, and resilience to disturbances Looking beneath the surface Before working on this project, I would probably have answered the question “Can we really make forests…
Vincent Buness, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, discusses his article: Distinct diversity trajectories of boreal wood-inhabiting fungi following fire vs. clear-cutting As humans, we tend to trust our senses and assume that we can perceive most of what surrounds us. When we walk through the forest, we see trees with their stems and canopy, and…
Maria Lucrecia Lipoma and Sandra Díaz discuss their recent Journal of Ecology paper ‘Low resilience at the early stages of recovery of the semiarid Chaco forest ‐ Evidence from a field experiment‘. Find out more about the insights they gained into the mechanistic understanding of resilience and how it can be used to better design…
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…
Author Tom Ovenden examined the impact of extreme drought on Scots pine trees in recently published article, Life after recovery: Increased resolution of forest resilience assessment sheds new light on post‐drought compensatory growth and recovery dynamic. We hope you enjoy the brilliant video animation created by Tom to summarise the key findings of this research…
Authors Robert Whelan and David Ayre provide further insight into their recently published Journal of Ecology article: Long inter‐fire intervals do not guarantee a large seed bank in a serotinous shrub (Banksia spinulosa Sm.) Find out how fires influence the seedling recruitment of an Australian shrub. This research is especially poignant in the wake of the…
