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18 March 2014
What happens in the soil when forests are replaced by monocultures? Find out in the Early View paper “ Habitat-specific positive and negative effects of soil biota on seedling growth in a fragmented tropical montane landscape” by Camila Pizano and co-workers. Below is...
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14 March 2014
How accurate are different forecast models for predicting population dynamics? That, and how predictable various animals actually are, was tested in the study "Complexity is costly: a meta-analysis of parametric and non-parametric methods for short-term population...
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14 March 2014
Thanks to giant water bugs’ ferocious feeding habits and their extreme natural environment, authors Kate S. Boersma and colleagues, now have a greater understanding of how biological communities may respond to predator extinctions under increasing global environmental...
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11 March 2014
Which fruit should I eat? - A decision both migratory and resident birds have to make over and over each autumn. This decision - and the consequences of it is studied in the Early View paper " Consistency and reciprocity of indirect interactions between tree species...
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11 March 2014
Ecosystem engineering, the physical modification of the environment by organisms, may well be the most common kind of non-trophic interaction - nearly as ubiquitous as eating and being eaten, and often as influential. Because species are affected by the physical...
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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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