🧪🌾 New article in @aobp.bsky.social revealing that competitive environment, rather than herbivory, can drive short-term phytochemical responses in some plant species. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/qmwx @drjoshbrian.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #PlantScience

Fueling my back to work 2026 with a balanced diet (lemongrass tea and Monster Munch)

Just in time for Xmas, great to have this out in AoB Plants! Short-term changes in phytochemistry are driven more by interspecific competitors than by consumers. The role of plant-plant competition may have been underestimated in studies of plant chemistry to date. academic.oup.com/aobpla/artic...

V. pleased to have this out in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social - evidence for limiting similarity vs. pre-adaptation (Darwin's naturalisation conundrum) vary across very fine spatial scales and when using phylogenetic vs. functional metrics! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Such a cool network! Can't wait to see the empirical results start coming out 😍

Really nice to have our recent article featured by @biogeographynews.bsky.social!

Great to see this out in Limnology&Oceanography @aslo.org - we provide the first global meta-analysis of ecosystem services provided by freshwater bivalves! One key message is that native species much better at providing services than invaders! aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨📃🧪 New paper out: "Impacts of diverse undersown cover crops on seasonal soil microbial properties". Rashmi Shrestha used the #TWINWIN experiment to show that undersowing crops with diverse plant mixtures, particularly including legumes has beneficial effects on soil microbial life and function 1/6

Thrilled to see this out @jvegsci.bsky.social! We looked at spatial scale terms in plant community ecology - terms like 'local' or 'regional'. The implication is that these terms convey ecological info and so be fairly consistent across studies. But are they? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share a new paper with Sandra Guerrero-Rubio and @docbroc.bsky.social on the convergent evolution of betalains, now published in @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... A 🧵

Stuff like this is why I love ecology - one of the coolest natural history papers I have read in years... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The blog about our Harper Prize-shortlisted paper is now up @journalofecology.bsky.social! Read on for a summary of what we found, and what got me into (and keeps me in) ecology! jecologyblog.com/2025/03/26/j...

So excited to see my paper on the shortlist for the Harper Prize, amongst some amazing work!! (Definitely lots to add to my reading list!) (You can find my paper here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

Pleased that my 2023 paper on enemy release was one of the top-10 cited articles in Ecology Letters from that year! If you missed it, check it out again here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

V. pleased to see this published! Priority effects are important in determining host-parasite dynamics. Here, I show there are different types of priority effect, and they have very different consequences for host populations... esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Very pleased to have played a small part in this recent paper about sampling mass mortality events now out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social (using freshwater mussels as an example) - something regrettably gaining more and more relevance! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...