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Modelling of human-driven changes in meta-communities

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7 March 2014
What will happen at the meta-community level with all exposure to human activities in various ecosystems? To answer this, Anne Teyssèdre and Alexandre Robert have simulated alternatives, presented in the Early View study " Contrasting effects of habitat reduction,...

Factors affecting carbon cycling in Sphagnum

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4 March 2014
Now on Early View: A study about functional traits in Sphagnum and how it affects carbon cycling. “Tradeoffs and scaling of functional traits in Sphagnum as drivers of carbon cycling in peatlands” by C.G. Laing and co-workers. Below is the author’s own summary of the...

Ecological networks and inference

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4 March 2014
If many mouths eat a lot of a not so preferable foot item - i.e. large numbers of city rats happen to live underground where they only have access to garbage-like food items - this does not tell us that another foot item not accessible to the crowd is genuinely much...

Welcome Martijn Bezemer, new SE

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28 February 2014
We're very happy to welcome Dr Martijn Bezemer, NIOO-KNAW, the Netherlands to our editorial board. Martijn, what's your main research focus at the moment? My main research focus is on aboveground-belowground interactions. I study how (i) soil biota (ii) manipulations...

Editor's Choice Feb-March 2014

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28 February 2014
For the February and March issue we have selected three articles as Editor’s choices that are currently open access. We selected papers that are at the heart of our publication mission, so papers that aim at providing synthesis in ecology. The work by Sergio Estay and...

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