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Journal of Ecology, A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal, publishing original plant ecology research for a global audience
🌱 Monocot vs dicot show distinct root economics space across root orders. Cortex proportion & secondary growth drive these differences 👇
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November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🐜 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 👇
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November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🌵 In tropical dry forests, drought avoiders (isohydric) thrive in dry sites with fast growth, while tolerators (anisohydric) dominate wetter areas, boosting biomass non-linearly 👇
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November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🌿 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 👇
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November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🌿 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 👇
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November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🌳 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🌍

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November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🌿 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 👇
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November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🌲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 👇
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November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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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 🎄

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November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Watch Applied Ecology Resource's recent live talk 'Restoring Resilience: Lessons from the Buffelsdraai Reforestation Project in Durban, South Africa' 🌱
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AER Live – Restoring Resilience: Lessons from the Buffelsdraai Reforestation Project in Durban
The Buffelsdraai Reforestation Project, led by eThekwini Municipality, is one of South Africa’s flagship urban ecosystem restoration initiatives. Begun in 2009 as a carbon-offset initiative, for the…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🕷️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👇
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November 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🌎 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👇
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November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🌊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👇
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November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🍃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👇
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November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🏖️This recent study furthers our understanding of trait variation in seaweeds and how variation is shaped by differences in environmental context @laurenleealgae.bsky.social 👇
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November 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🔥 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
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November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🌊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👇
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November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🦠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 👇
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November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🌄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 👇
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November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🌿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 👇
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November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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. 🌨️
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November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Join the authors of ‘DNA Divers: Volunteer-based eDNA capture for local and global marine biodiversity monitoring’ for this free online webinar! 🧬 ⭐

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November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌈 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🔆

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October 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🍄 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🌲

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October 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM