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community ecology

Handbook for the measurement of macrofungal functional traits: a start with basidiomycete wood fungi

November 14, 2018 — 0 Comments

Butterfly

community ecology

Seeing the forest for the trees: putting multilayer networks to work for community ecology

November 14, 2018 — 0 Comments

Traits predict tree species forest distributions and growth and survival rates across Hawaiian montane wet forest (MWF) and lowland dry forest (LDF). The top and bottom rows compare the MWF and LDF respectively, with forest images in left-hand column, and micrographs of impressions of the abaxial leaf surfaces and of cleared and stained leaves in the middle and right columns respectively (sides of squares = 0.31 mm and 1.25 mm respectively) for representative species Coprosma rhynchocarpa of the MWF and Psydrax odorata of the LDF. On average across species, stomatal density is higher for species of the MWF, and minor vein density is higher for species of the LDF, and these traits predict vital rates across all species. Photo credit: left, top and bottom: CTFS; center and right, top and bottom: Jessica Smith

community ecology

The more traits the merrier: using an extensive suite of functional traits to characterize forests and predict tree growth and mortality

October 19, 2018 — 0 Comments

community ecology, ecosystems ecology

Potentials and pitfalls in the analysis of bipartite networks to understand plant–microbe interactions in changing environments

October 2, 2018 — 0 Comments

Juvenile (left) and adult (right) of Luxemburgia damazioana, a species from campo rupestre, the unproductive grassland. Note the delayed leaf greening of the young foliage. Photos: Roberta Dayrell.

community ecology

Developmental shifts in plant strategy

September 25, 2018 — 0 Comments

Experimental design of culture. Image provided by authors.

community ecology

Plant morphological response to competition depends on species richness.

September 24, 2018 — 0 Comments

A Cantabrian seed dispersal network with high complementarity in interactions. Small birds (blackcap, European robin) disperse mostly small-fruited plants (bramble), and dominant fruiting plants (holly) are mostly dispersed by wintering birds (redwing). Artwork and pictures by Daniel García.

community ecology

Seed dispersal depends on frugivore biodiversity and on how exclusive frugivores are for fruiting plants and vice versa.

September 12, 2018 — 0 Comments