🦋 We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌿 If you're interested in contributing to our journals, check the link below for more information 👇 buff.ly/7su8jMf

🌱 Monocot vs dicot show distinct root economics space across root orders. Cortex proportion & secondary growth drive these differences 👇 buff.ly/vAULs1t

🐜 Experimentally increasing sugar resources disrupted the existing resource partitioning between ant species & altered the composition of ants defending silver cholla. Partitioning of resources between ant species influences defense on silver cholla @braunj.bsky.social 👇 buff.ly/sVfMGqd

🌵 In tropical dry forests, drought avoiders (isohydric) thrive in dry sites with fast growth, while tolerators (anisohydric) dominate wetter areas, boosting biomass non-linearly 👇 buff.ly/8dpEhNv

🌿 Mini Reviews are shorter than Reviews & focus on recent developments in their field, rather than providing an exhaustive review of the literature 🌷 📰 Read more about some of our well-cited Reviews & Mini-Reviews in our latest blog post 👇 buff.ly/dS5mG0N

🌿 A great review is more than just a summary or description of past research! They integrate existing studies in new ways to promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology 🌷 📰 Read more about our reviews in our latest blog post 👇 buff.ly/cgUBfSp

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🌳 There is a weak growth-survival trade-off among temperate tree species. No clear evidence of this trade-off was found in early developed stands, while late developmental stands showed a stronger positive association between species’ growth and survival🌍 📖 Read more: buff.ly/qmUA3oJ

🌿 As well as strong research studies, Journal of Ecology also publishes Reviews & Mini-Reviews that promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology! 🌷 You can read all of our high-quality reviews on our website 👇 buff.ly/tki7aJ2

🌲This study demonstrates that hyperdominance at the Amazon-wide scale at which it was defined and is most often considered, cannot be explained by demographic stochasticity among equal competitors 👇 buff.ly/a7JcahJ

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)

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🕷️Warming increased predator abundance, but only reduced decomposition via trophic cascades at low arthropod diversity. High arthropod diversity weakened top-down effects and maintained detritivore abundance and decomposition👇 buff.ly/0vD7Tk4

🌎 6 years of data from Cedar Creek Reserve show that warming consistently reduced plant diversity in grasslands, with stronger and more variable effects than drought—highlighting the need for long-term studies of climate impacts on biodiversity👇 buff.ly/3GQVxnN

🌊The diversity of native aquatic plant communities makes them more able to resilient to climate change than the invasive alga, starry stonewort, which may lessen the impacts of invasion👇 buff.ly/6pEMPnG

🍃Invasive species removal boosts phylogenetic & functional biodiversity, but how? This 3-year field experiment shows that abundance shifts drive recovery more than species colonization & extinction👇 🔍 Article: buff.ly/7rMkwrL 📰 Blog: buff.ly/vKJDO3M

🏖️This recent study furthers our understanding of trait variation in seaweeds and how variation is shaped by differences in environmental context @laurenleealgae.bsky.social 👇 buff.ly/t0KQBRz

🔥 This review introduces a novel organismal trait-based conceptual framework to connect the disparate literature about non-additive effects of species combinations on different specific ecosystem processes 🔍Article: buff.ly/4CJOfVO 📰Blog: buff.ly/TUAcPV4

🌊Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional β-diversity and its components respond distinctly to nutrients and herbivory in algae. New functional β-diversity metrics, outperforming the conventional ones, will benefit the biodiversity field👇 buff.ly/3pfult9

🦠Increased N deposition enhanced the pathogen resistance of an invasive plant species over its local congeneric competitor, increasing the competitive ability of this invasive plant over local congener plant and may facilitate its invasion 👇 buff.ly/Yk1yF0r

🌄Plant community strategies shape carbon storage across Kilimanjaro. Trait trade-offs mediate climate effects on above-ground carbon & soil organic carbon —highlighting the power of functional traits in ecosystem function predictions @dicksonmauki.bsky.social 👇 buff.ly/j96UhY1

🌿Drought legacy effects in the soil impact plant growth & plant-soil feedback in grassland communities. These effects are linked to soil bacteria and fungi, but could not be triggered by adding root exudates or root litter from droughted plants 👇 buff.ly/0lQpFQQ

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

🌈 The life of plankton in a rainbow – The spectral quality of light has a significant impact on phytoplankton community dynamics and seston biochemistry with propagating effects to herbivores🔆 buff.ly/tCBYpG7 @sebastianneun.bsky.social @marenstriebel.bsky.social @icbm-uol.bsky.social

🍄 This study highlighted the role of mycorrhizal symbiosis in mediating the strength of conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) and shaping large-scale patterns of local tree species richness🌲 🖥️ Read the full article: buff.ly/dzuV5Fj

🌸 Pollination syndromes are more flexible than we thought! Floral trait importance shifts with season and habitat type for different pollinator groups in Caribbean dry forest🐝 #pollinationecology @harrisia.bsky.social Read more:https://buff.ly/0BONQ68

🏔️ Using a novel source of abundance data, we forecast population spread across landscapes. Our results suggest that biotic processes likely play a critical, but often underappreciated role in driving range shifts over decadal time-scales🌏 📖 Read the article: buff.ly/Mf7sRRn

🪵 Bark and wood traits shape deadwood invertebrates differently. Bark traits drives invertebrate diversity only in fine wood in early stage, whereas wood trait effects are longer-lasting, but restricted to coarse wood🌳 🖥️ Find out more: buff.ly/oV00sxK

🌱 Our study elucidated the intricate interplay between AMF sub-communities and the root economics space (RES) in response to soil fertility gradients, with direct implications for plant productivity🍃 📖 Find the article:https://buff.ly/dLPK1ik

🌵 Across 9,158 site-level observations, climate modulates leaf trait trade-offs: C4 plants, forbs, and annuals adopt acquisitive strategies, while temperate species favour conservative ones. Global axes of grass trait coordination emerge🌡️ 🔎 Read the full article: buff.ly/0Fe0fcJ

📖 The requirements for declaring causal interpretations from non-experimental studies have long been obscure and restrictive. This paper illustrates how mechanistic causal knowledge can be summarized and used to support causal interpretations🧪 Find out more: buff.ly/05atYpN

🍃 Functional traits best predict tree growth when age and leaf habit are considered–growth relationships shift over time and between deciduous and evergreen species🌿 @meganedeziel.bsky.social @alainpaquette.bsky.social Read more:https://buff.ly/2d9ppq9

🔥 A new study shows a higher vulnerability of a fire-adapted subshrub to climate change in anthropogenic Mediterranean habitats, emphasising the need for more demographic studies in human-modified habitats🌊 @paniw.bsky.social @arpatoz.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social 📖 :

🌳 How do Fabaceae plants allocate nutrients above vs. belowground across China? We found divergent leaf–root nutrient allometries and a dominant role of phylogeny in nutrient variation, except for leaf P & K, which were driven by climate! 🌞 Read here:https://buff.ly/7eO9fir

⭐ A huge congratulations to Ilaria Dentamare, winner of the Journal of Ecology Best Poster Award at the XXXIV National Congress of the Italian Ecological Society! 🏆

🍃 Number of leaves explained vital rates best and most homogeneously across 55 populations of Plantago lanceolata across three continents in a size metric selection at large scale 🌿 📖 Read the full article: buff.ly/7eO9fir

🪵 Diameter drives short-term biomass gains, but long-term carbon storage hinges on wood density, especially in humid forests. To improve accuracy, biomass models should account for radial wood density variation and climate ☁️ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/kZFoh9B

🌲 Eastern Hemlock is a strikingly beautiful forest tree native to eastern North America. Sadly, it is susceptible to an insect from Japan, the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. Warmer winters allow the insect to survive so the outlook for this tree is poor🐛 📖Read the full article here: buff.ly/Jns3NrD

🌞 A large-scale experiment identified a coupled effect between warming magnitude and background climate, highlighting the interactive effects of climate warming and background temperature in regulating leaf-out🍃 Find out more:https://buff.ly/XLIXw0O

🌿 CSR strategies reflect species' habitat preferences for stress and disturbance, as well as whole-plant traits, offering support for Grime’s hypothesis and highlighting its significance to understanding plant adaptation in the Anthropocene🌲 Read here: buff.ly/yFDdpAZ

🧪 Soil acidification slashes plant carbon to soil by 13-60%! Plants shift strategy: boost root growth, storage & respiration to survive stress. Less carbon enters soil, but SOC stays stable due to lower decomposition #SoilScience #CarbonCycle 🌳 Read more: buff.ly/wLGTBwQ

🐛 We used a spatially explicit network of 113 plots in a 9-ha subtropical coniferous forest to evaluate the variation and controls of microorganism- and fauna-driven decomposition at a scale where macroclimate, dominant vegetation, and litter quality are kept constant 🍃 Read more: buff.ly/3i4NAI9

🔎 We conducted a global meta-analysis of 3,135 data comparisons from 296 papers to quantify the effects of removing plant consumers on plant biomass, diversity, reproduction, and survival.🌵 📖 Read the full study here: buff.ly/mWrBVsy

🌳 Tree and understory herb diversity both boost ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) across spatial scales in temperate forests. Our study highlights the overlooked role of forest understories in sustaining key ecosystem services 🌲 📖 Read the full article:https://buff.ly/ldncbtt

🌞 Heatwaves reduce grassland carbon uptake, but mowing can ease the impact. Dominant species traits—not just biodiversity—play a key role in resilience. Managing for strong species may help grasslands weather climate extremes. @USCCC 🌱 📖 Read more: buff.ly/HJ7C02v

🔥 These findings support the idea that fire can alter the phenotype of individual plants, potentially through epigenetic mechanisms, and suggest that these changes may affect plant-animal interactions🌺 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/BJsoLxr

🐝 Too sweet to drink! Study in an alpine meadow from a global biodiversity hotspot indicates sugar concentration of floral nectar contributes to structuring bee-flower interactions, which is mediated by length of bumblebees’ proboscis and flower depth 🌸 Read more: buff.ly/YkNmwN3

🌳 Most dominant tree species in European unmanaged forests show no consistent long-term increase in mortality over the last decades. This highlights their high resilience and adaptability to environmental stress. @WSL_research @ForEco_ETH @jokinidol 🔎 Read the full article here:

🌳 Small elevation differences in an Amazonian forest affect tree growth and survival, partially explaining species' habitat preferences @danielfzuleta.bsky.social #AmacayacuFDP @ForestGEO 🏔️ Read more:https://buff.ly/kYEp7N4