🚨New blog series!🚨 📖We're pleased to launch 'Cover Stories', a new blog series which aims to showcase some of the amazing images we’ve had on the Functional Ecology cover over the years, and to get to know the people behind them. 👀Keep an eye on our blog site for posts from next week! 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Seasonal changes in eye tissue and behavior accompany autumn coloration in a wild butterfly population🦋 buff.ly/0M9iUu3 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Experimentally increased food availability allows for earlier departure in a long-distance migratory shorebird🐦 buff.ly/RRfxBPw 🧪🌍

👀Behind the Paper!👀 Author Qiwen Guo delves into the underground world of roots, asking "do trees adjust their underground schedule when living with different species?"🌳 Read it here👇 buff.ly/x2NFAC6 🧪🌍

The Soil Ecology Group, previously known as Plants-Soils-Ecosystems, is back!!! And they are looking for a communications rep! Apply here to be part of this great group, including @nataliejoram.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan...

We are looking for contributors to our series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season 🎄 See previous blogs here 👉 buff.ly/MnMcRqG (1/2)

🔊Podcast out now!🔊 🎧Author Fernando Gonçalves discusses how pollen protein and amino acid composition influence year-round and seasonal bat–flower interaction networks🦇 Listen here👇 🟧https://buff.ly/VlEZokf 🧪🌍

🎆Our November issue is out now!🎆 📙On the cover: A female American alligator guards her nest. Within the nest, developing embryos respond to temperature fluctuations, which will determine if they develop as males or females. Photo credit: Benjamin Parrott🐊 Read it here👇 buff.ly/NrKXKtO 🧵1/2 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Understanding how warming and increased precipitation interactively affect N2O emissions🌡️ buff.ly/u6YhB3a 🧪🌍

This work, lead by @felixpleiva.bsky.social, is finally published in a @funecology.bsky.social issue. Have a look. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our newest Special Feature, "Implications of Changing Snowscapes for Animal Ecology", is now accepting proposals. It aims to highlight the importance of changing snow conditions in animal ecology. 🌨️ Read more and submit your proposal here:

Register for our next MEE live! Join the authors of ‘DNA Divers: Volunteer-based eDNA capture for local and global marine biodiversity monitoring’ for this free online webinar! 🧬 ⭐ ⏰ 27 November 2025, 16:30-17:30pm (GMT) Find out more and register 👇 buff.ly/wNIpIWm

📰Published📰Are northern seaweeds built tougher?🌊 buff.ly/Qm4gwcc 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Morphological constraints on plant-mediated methane release and oxidation under experimental warming in a peatland and meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau🌱 buff.ly/EEJpV0I 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Factors influencing fine root decomposition rates in response to nitrogen addition vary across root characteristics🌱 buff.ly/XcQpBja 🧪🌍

🎃 How are you celebrating spooky season? Help usher in Halloween with this blog post of some of our spookiest publications this year... If you dare! 👻🧪 🏰 Read the blog here: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/10/30/2...

During the course of Black History Month, we have been collating a resource page of blogs, networks, literature and more, with the aim of consistently supporting and elevating Black ecologists.

🚨 Did you miss yesterday's webinar on 'Understanding the policy context of Integrated Nature-Climate Action'? 🚨 Don't fret! 🌎🧪 You can watch the full presentations and discussion over on our YouTube: youtu.be/KuytewU1-Vs?...

📰Published📰Potential lasting effect of opportunistic parasitic fungi on coarse wood decomposition🪵 buff.ly/Gm47Qc2 🧪🌍

👀Behind the Paper!👀 Read it here👉https://buff.ly/XO5W7G9 🌱Author Kai Shi discusses how healthy, diverse plant communities are a natural defense against invasions and shares the unpredictable yet exciting nature of fieldwork🔍 🧪🌍

Watch Applied Ecology Resources' recent online workshop: 'Biodiversity and Nature Reporting for Complex Global Supply Chains' 🌿 🎥: buff.ly/XtCKGB9 Sign up to our next one on the 4th of November! 👇 buff.ly/yYeouwz 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Parasitoid development and ladybird recovery are negatively affected by increased temperature🐞 buff.ly/jepfQF3 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Negative interactions between bacteria and fungi modulate life history strategies of soil bacterial communities in temperate shrublands under precipitation gradients🦠 buff.ly/RBjXvm9 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Grazing disrupts the trade-off between silica- and phenol-based plant defenses along an aridity gradient in grasslands🌱 buff.ly/vl4Ia5W 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Biochar mitigates microplastic-induced destabilization of soil organic carbon via molecular recalcitrance and microbial process regulation🦠 buff.ly/mJnuxM8 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Rising CO2 helps some trees, but not others, transform African savannas🌳 buff.ly/79zni6P 🧪🌍

New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🏆Charles Fox, Functional Ecology's former Executive Editor, has received the BES Award! Congratulations🎉 @callomac.bsky.social

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 BES Awards, honouring 11 distinguished ecologists whose contributions have greatly benefited the scientific community and the Society as a whole.  Huge congratulations to all the winners 👏

📰Published📰In male insects, being attractive can indicate an underlying resistance to hydration stress🪳 buff.ly/J0t4je1 🧪🌍

Happy that Lina Ojeda Prieto's latest work is online @funecology.bsky.social! We manipulated the number of plant chemotypes in a plot, and tested how this influenced visitation by different arthropod groups. A massive endeavor for Lina's PhD. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

📰Published📰Plant chemistry diversity drives insect community patterns🐛 buff.ly/xgAEO7I 🧪🌍

Our latest podcast episode, hosted by @edieabrahams.bsky.social, explores the story behind the paper, "Prey bioluminescence-mediated visual luring in a sit and wait predator". 🕷️ 🎙️ listen to the full episode here: buff.ly/HDHpvhZ

👀Behind the Paper!👀 🐦Author Lisieux Fuzessy sets out to answer the question "How important is the shared evolutionary history between animals and plants in determining their interactions, compared to their current, observable morphological attributes?"🍏 Read it here👇 buff.ly/i2g3vPx 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Above and belowground phenology of four tree species in mixed forests and monospecific stands🌳 buff.ly/Dxk7Oag 🧪🌍

📰Published📰 Ecological function over evolutionary legacy: the limited role of shared evolutionary history in shaping modern frugivory interactions🍎 buff.ly/pwMCtsl 🧪🌍

New paper from our JenaTron facility: Bröcher et al. show that reciprocal effects between plants and invertebrate herbivores vary with plant species richness, plant history and soil history. Herbivores want nutritious plants with soil history, while they reduce plant height in monocultures 🐛🌱

📰Published📰Plant-insect interactions are shaped by plant diversity and the history of plants and soil🌱 buff.ly/QZsolZQ 🧪🌍

👀Behind the Paper!👀 🔦 Author Barbara Bignon shares fascinating insights on how body characteristics can have a major and unexpected impact on where cockroaches are found🪳 Read it here👇 buff.ly/lR1vybV 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Unpredictable conditions shape growth in young amphibians🐸 buff.ly/Ds1zk5L 🧪🌍

Happy to share my first postdoc work published in @funecology.bsky.social ! A huge thank-you to @oliverdemuth.bsky.social @lizzysteell.bsky.social @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and to @snsf.ch besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📰Published📰Why bird wing bones look so similar inside, no matter how they live🐦 buff.ly/weNFTTb 🧪🌍

📰Published📰How ocean warming and fish size affect feeding in a common reef fish🐠 buff.ly/PF0X15C 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Depth-dependent effects of short-term whole-soil warming on dead microbial biomass (necromass) and plant lignin🦠 buff.ly/VQOpi9j 🧪🌍

👀Behind the Paper!👀 🪵In our new post, author Kenji Suetsugu presents new work on green Calypsoinae orchids and the wood-decaying fungi that power their beginnings🌺 Read it here👇 buff.ly/yanHxn6 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Invasive weed meets its match in mixed leaf litter🍃 buff.ly/71eDPbG 🧪🌍

👀Behind the Paper!👀 🌼In this blog post, author Mario Vallejo-Marín explores a striking example of evolutionary convergence in floral form - buzz pollinated flowers🐝 Read it here👇 buff.ly/5dXVFHg @nicrodemo.bsky.social 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Nitrogen enrichment promotes isopods through reduced carbon and nitrogen stoichiometric mismatch with understory plants🌱 buff.ly/72osSDs 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Not so fast! Flowers put the brakes on buzzing bees🐝 buff.ly/j0bHqi5 🧪🌍

Our latest podcast series 'Included in Nature with Clare Rishbeth' explores the barriers to nature inclusion for various communities and the ways in which we can overcome them 🌱 This discussion is based on four reports deposited in Applied Ecology Resources 📚 Listen here 👇 buff.ly/7BpYW1c