Functional Ecology

🌷Our March Issue is out now!🌷 📙On the cover: A digitally coloured scanning electron #micrograph of barbed defensive #trichomes on the underside of a desert stingbush #leaf (Credit: Rosemary Glos and Carol Flegler)🔬 Read it here👇️ buff.ly/mKHVK2p 🧵1/2

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Haldane Prize!⭐️ Jiangnan Li investigated how #rock outcrop size and distance influence #soil multifunctionality in #mountain ecosystems, aiming to understand how these factors affect key soil #functions⛰️ buff.ly/9V8qsUC

📰Published📰#Necromass chemistry drives the #functional #diversity of necrobiome resulting in #microbe-organic matter feedbacks🦠 buff.ly/Gq0mQfY

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Haldane Prize!⭐️ Lifeng Wang investigated how typhoon-generated green litter alters multi-element release during decomposition🌀 buff.ly/Gej47XJ

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Haldane Prize!⭐️ 🦠Jiawei Zhang explored how microbial necromass carbon — carbon derived from dead microorganisms — is distributed across China’s coastal wetlands and what drives its accumulation🌊 buff.ly/ChbFFrD

📰Published📰Low #nitrogen addition amplifies the positive effect of #grazing exclusion on #plant diversity and #community stability🌱 buff.ly/4ZV3D5Q

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Haldane Prize!⭐️ June Shrestha combined relationships between excretion rate and body mass for fish species with abundance and size structure data to investigate ammoniumn excreted by the kelp forest fish community🐟️ buff.ly/VB7zFI8

Proposals for our Special Feature with @FunEcology & @JEcology are still open 👀 We're looking to further understanding of how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, particularly through links to management strategies 🐛 bit.ly/45ZalEf

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Haldane Prize!⭐️ 🪸Carolina Olguín-Jacobson used kelp forest monitoring data to assess the impact, resistance and recovery of marine heatwaves on fish and invertebrate communities inside and outside marine reserves🐟️ buff.ly/sAv1GGL

👀Behind the Paper!👀 Author Joanna Sudyka answers to the question: “Why do birds cheat?”🐦️ Joanna discusses mating and parental behaviour in blue and great tits, collecting DNA in century-old oaks, and her advice for navigating a career in ecology🌳 buff.ly/cfyuXQy

🚨We're excited to reveal the shortlist for Functional Ecology's 2025 Haldane Prize!🚨 🏅This is awarded to the best paper in the journal by an early career author 💡See the full list below 👉️buff.ly/Te56j18

📰Published📰Extending #plant water-use strategies to #flowers: evidence from #trait coordination across #plant organs🌼 buff.ly/91EDnXR

📰Published📰#Nitrogen deposition does not exacerbate #phosphorus limitation of rhizosphere #microbes in subalpine #forests🌲 buff.ly/4DeDXLN

New paper in @FunEcology, where we show how local climate and genetic relatedness influence torpor physiology in a widespread #bat species, demonstrating that phenotypic plasticity drives intraspecific variation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

📰Published📰#Seed #dormancy explains #plant response to mass #mortality events🌱 buff.ly/flwEkog

📰Published📰What hotter #fires mean for the #seeds in the #soil, a hidden diversity of #plants🔥 buff.ly/kHjIlDU

Excited to share our new paper in @FunEcology! Led by @NicholasWuNZ We found that torpor in eastern bent-wing bats is driven by local climate and phenotypic plasticity, rather than genetics. Read the full study here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

📰Published📰#Trout that are more able to produce #energy tend to be more #dominant🐟️ buff.ly/sjdB0fL

🚨 New podcast episode available now! 🌳 We speak to recently published People and Nature author Marilisa Herchet about the mental health benefits of urban green 🏙️ 🎙️ Listen on Soundcloud ➡️ buff.ly/eK1rfVy 🎙️ Listen on Spotify ➡️ buff.ly/3hWpQn7

📰Published📰An invasive #shrub is responsible for most #carbon uptake in a New Zealand #montane ecosystem🏔️ buff.ly/UHM6QPX

📰Published📰#Fungal partnerships and #forest futures: how #soil microbes shape tree #seedling survival🌱 buff.ly/fcf9W3W