🌱The August issue is out now! 👉️ buff.ly/cgndms2 🍂 This month's cover is a watercolour & ink illustration by F.C. Lubbe showing a "Composite of the dormant state of belowground structures for 90 species of Oxalis." Read the article by Lubbe et al. 👉️ buff.ly/k8rBSem

🧪 These insights refine classical views of successional dynamics and deepen our understanding of how biodiversity–stability relationships unfold over time. 👉️ buff.ly/XhOhjsT

🪸 Phenotypic plasticity of invasive knotweed across Europe: A distributed common garden experiment 👉️ buff.ly/GlYYrHh

This study provides new mechanistic insights into whole-plant strategic trade-offs that govern plant adaptations and species coexistence in heterogeneous environments🌿 Find out more👉️ buff.ly/3PMG61A

🌳 The results of this study underscore the need to explicitly account for biotic interactions in models of species distribution and forest regeneration under climate warming. 👉️ buff.ly/CYhvCxM

🐂 These findings suggest that reliance on aboveground-only measurements systematically overestimates the degree of overcompensation in grazed grasslands, underscoring the necessity of whole-plant assessments for accurately evaluating grassland productivity. buff.ly/TZJIKar

📣 We are excited to announce that following our recent open call, we have welcomed 63 new Associate Editors to Journal of Ecology, spanning 18 countries! 🌍️ 📰 Read the blog post to find out more about our new editors! 👉️ buff.ly/pkxtuSr

Welcome to our new Associate Editors!

Journal of Ecology is delighted to welcome 63 new Associate Editors to the Editorial Board following our latest open call. Spanning 18 countries, they bring valuable expertise that will help us to …

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🌲These results reveal that trait–growth relationships shift across water availability, neighbourhood density and soil biotas, challenging current vegetation models that rely on mean trait values. 👉️ buff.ly/Az0Tkp9

💧 These findings highlight the importance of a realm-specific approach for linking functional traits to freshwater ecosystem functioning and biodiversity. 👉️ buff.ly/9iirHyS

Registration and call for abstracts for the BES Annual Meeting 2026 are now open 🔥 Our sold-out and Europe's largest ecology conference is returning this year to Birmingham's ICC on 14–17 December, and we can't wait to see you there. Find out more here 👇 https://tinyurl.com/2s3nupvu

🐜 These results demonstrate that ant-mediated selection on diaspore traits varies geographically, possibly resulting in uneven expression of home-site advantage across populations. 👉️ buff.ly/RX3TpJE

☀️ Light competition is a fundamental force driving tree height growth and secondary succession. However, the costs and benefits of light interception and growth at the individual tree level remain poorly understood. 👉️ buff.ly/O8SL0d4

A new study from @ucdavis.bsky.social suggests that the mountain jewelflower is not adapting quickly enough to compensate for climate change in the Sierra Nevada mountains. @ucdavisplants.bsky.social @journalofecology.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/index%2Ephp/...

A Native California Wildflower Isn’t Keeping Up with Climate Change

The mountain jewelflower inhabits a wide swath of California and Oregon, from summer-scorched foothills to high mountains where snow falls during winter. But it is already suffering from climate chang...

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⏰️1 day left to apply! Applications close 24 July @ 9am BST. 📊 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌳 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe

⛰️ The results of this study highlight the threat that warming and especially drying pose to the regeneration resilience of forests in the Rocky Mountains. 👉️ buff.ly/AOidxkn

🍃 The stability of trait–herbivory relationships across environmental gradients suggests that growth–defence trade-offs are conserved across biological scales, suggesting that accounting for within-species trait variation could improve predictions of future ecosystem processes. 👉️ buff.ly/rjSdUuE

🏔️High elevation populations of mountain jewelflower show a life stage-dependent adaptational lag. In a high elevation garden, low elevation populations initially outperform high elevation populations but have reduced fitness in their second year 👉️ buff.ly/vUtyN6d

The call for proposals to our new Special Feature is now live! If you’d like to further the following through a One Health perspective then get involved below... 👉 disease ecology 🦠 👉 multispecies health 🦌 👉 public health 🩺 👉 agriculture 🌱 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

🌍️This mini-review revitalises and sets the agenda for a new generation of ombrotrophic peatland science centred around cation micronutrient availability, global change, and carbon cycling @biogeo-josh.bsky.social @jpritson.bsky.social 👉️ buff.ly/o5MY0MZ

⏰️1 week left to apply! We're recruiting for an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📊 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌳 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe

🌱This study reveals a dual response in grasslands to repeated drought, where community fine root traits maintain high resistance through species turnover, suggesting that community functional responses to climate extremes cannot be inferred from species trait shifts alone 👉️ buff.ly/gmDusXy

🍂 Nutrient resorption from leaves and its transfer to twigs during autumn shape spring bud break in woody plants. This study indicates that species with efficient nutrient strategies support earlier spring growth and exhibit greater climate adaptability 👉️ buff.ly/uEMhC2u

🪴 Differences in pathogen communities across ranges may have caused evolutionary changes in plant–pathogen associations in C. canadensis 👉️ buff.ly/uwmTdHc

🌱 Persistent species drive grassland stability through stable and complementary population fluctuations. Nutrient enrichment undermines this stability by harming these key species, rather than by boosting transient ones 👉️ buff.ly/K4ghS2I

🍃 Recent study experimentally links evolutionary and biogeographic divergence to competitive outcomes among Quercus congeners, uniting Darwin’s naturalization hypothesis, coexistence theory and the stress-gradient framework 👉️ buff.ly/nC9lRlE

📰 On the blog ✍️ A foundational salt marsh grass exhibits spatial variation in trait responses to sea level rise 🌊 - buff.ly/alwhoy9 🔍 Article: buff.ly/5iZEVYH

🌱 This recent Review explains how fungi trade plant carbon for nutrients in a soil "micro-market" where there's cooperation under scarcity and competition when abundant 👉️ buff.ly/8CWGf5Y

🌱Clonality enhances parental effects on offspring performance in predictable benign environments, but does not increase the chance of adaptive parental effects in predictable stressful environments 👉️ buff.ly/Jh9zYzu

🌧️ Aboveground and belowground components exhibit contrasting and non-linear responses to changing precipitation in alpine ecosystems 👉️ buff.ly/oPUt1KU

🐠Abundant kelp canopies offset warming by keeping reef fish Community Temperature Index (CTI) lower than local temperatures predict. Where kelp is less abundant, this buffering weakens & tropicalisation advances, with more warm-affinity species and higher fish diversity 👉️ buff.ly/9sS73fv