Journal of Ecology
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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
🌱 Monocot vs dicot show distinct root economics space across root orders. Cortex proportion & secondary growth drive these differences 👇
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🐜 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
🐜 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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🌵 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
🌵 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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🌿 Mini Reviews are shorter than Reviews & focus on recent developments in their field, rather than providing an exhaustive review of the literature 🌷
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📰 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
🌿 Mini Reviews are shorter than Reviews & focus on recent developments in their field, rather than providing an exhaustive review of the literature 🌷
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🌿 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 🌷
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November 18, 2025 at 12:22 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 🌷
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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🌍
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November 18, 2025 at 9:01 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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🌿 As well as strong research studies, Journal of Ecology also publishes Reviews & Mini-Reviews that promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology!
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🌷 You can read all of our high-quality reviews on our website 👇
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November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🌿 As well as strong research studies, Journal of Ecology also publishes Reviews & Mini-Reviews that promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology!
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🌷 You can read all of our high-quality reviews on our website 👇
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🌲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
🌲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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🕷️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
🕷️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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🌎 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
🌎 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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🌊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
🌊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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🍃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
🍃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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🏖️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 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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🔥 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
🔥 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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🌊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
🌊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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🦠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
🦠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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🌄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
🌄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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🌿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
🌿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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🌈 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
🌈 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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🍄 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
🍄 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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🌸 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
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October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🌸 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
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#pollinationecology
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🏔️ 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🌏
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October 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🏔️ 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🌏
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🪵 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🌳
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October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🪵 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🌳
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🌱 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🍃
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October 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
🌱 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🍃
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🌵 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🌡️
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October 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🌵 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🌡️
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