The editor’s choice papers are for February are two meta-analyses: Bracken and colleagues studied signatures of nutrient limitation in primary producers ; Jauni et al. how non-native plant species benefit from disturbance . Matthew Bracken and colleagues collected data...
editor
12 February 2015
It is usually delightful to observe forest birds as they playfully hop from branch to branch chirping, or sing their hearts out. But there is a dark side to a birds’ behaviour that is less often acknowledged. Many birds engage in a fierce (and often fatal) struggle for...
editor
10 February 2015
As the oceans gradually become warmer and more acidified, an increasing number of studies test the effects of climate change on marine organisms. As most climate change experiments have studied effects of single climate variables on single species, more and more...
editor
4 February 2015
This is our first collaboration study between a population geneticist, Hideki Innan, and a field-based tropical ecologist, me, Yayoi Takeuchi. I have been long wondering why Hubbell’s neutral model fitted so well to tropical forest communities because my impression of...
editor
3 February 2015
The introduction of a new species to an ecological community can initiate a chain of events that results in a significant change to the community’s composition. For instance, the introduction of a pollinator species can facilitate the colonization of new plants that...
editor
30 January 2015
Everyone who likes to spend some time in nature, or who has trees at home, knows that several animals love to feed on fruits. Figs, tomatoes, peppers, guavas, mangos, bananas, and many other delicacies are harvested by frugivores that range from tiny bats to huge...
editor
27 January 2015
Experimental warming is an effective approach to determine the effect of increasing temperature on ecological processes, with few confounding factors (e.g., other variables that covary spatially and temporally with temperature). Therefore, a number of field experiments...
editor
27 January 2015
Elevational gradients have become important tools for assessing the effects of temperature changes on vegetation properties, because these gradients enable temperature effects to be considered over larger spatial and temporal scales than is possible through...
Biotic interactions play a central role in determining species distribution and abundance. Indeed, some organisms can have particularly strong effects on the distribution of other species because they act as keystone species or ecosystem engineers whose effects cascade...
editor
20 January 2015
Herbivory may be changed by climate change and how does that affect the host plants? Find out in the Early View paper "Colonization of a host tree by herbivorous insects under a changing climate" by Kaisa Heimonen and co-workers. Below is their summary of the paper:...
Pages
