British Ecological Society Journals

JEC: Interview with Mike Hutchings by British Ecological Society Journals

Visit Ross Mounce's homepage via http://rossmounce.co.uk/ Music credit: Song "One Small Morning" http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Scallions/Agony_Through_Ceremony XE/05_-_One_Small_Mourning_Instrumental Band: "The Scallions" http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Scallions/

Recent analysis of global datasets has shown that plants are constrained in how they allocate resources to their leaves, with trade-offs between building sturdy leaves with a long lifespan that are inefficient in capturing light or building flimsy leaves with a short lifespan and high efficiency. However, it is unknown whether similar patterns occur at more local scales, particularly when you consider the same plant species growing under different conditions. In this study, Justin P. Wright talks with Alan Knapp about the surprising results of examining the effects of varying nitrogen availability and water table depth on the form and function of leaves of over 20 species of wetland plants and what that means for ecologists looking to predict how the addition or subtraction of species will affect the way that ecosystems function. Read the paper here: http://bit.ly/XTUD5H or the lay summary here: http://bit.ly/142W5Gh

Music + Song: + [Carolinian](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/Liv + e_at_WFMU_on_Joe_Belocks_Show_on_7172008/Carolinian) + Artist: [Chatham County Line](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/)

Franciska De Vries (http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/franciska.devries/) is a Journal of Ecology Associate Editor. Music credit: + Song: + [Carolinian](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/Liv + e_at_WFMU_on_Joe_Belocks_Show_on_7172008/Carolinian) + Artist: [Chatham County Line](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/)

Music credit: + Song: [Birmingham Jail](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/Live_at_WFMU_on_Joe_Belocks_Show_on_7172008/Birmingham_Jail) + Artist: [Chatham County Line](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/)

Kyle Dexter's website is http://phylodiversity.net/kdexter/HOME.html Music credit: + Song: “Week Fifteen” + Artist: Ben von Wildenhaus + link: + http://freemusicarchive.org/music/BenWildenhaus/Instrumental_Quaalude_ + vol_2/06_Week_Fifteen

Visit Catherine Preece's website http://osbornelab.group.shef.ac.uk/people/catherine-preece/. Music credit: + Song: “Instrumental - The Golden Age” + Artist: Dan Warren + link: + http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dan_Warren/Son_of_Strelka_Son_of_God + /12_Instrumental_-_The_Golden_Age

Read 'Plant functional group identity and diversity determine biotic resistance to invasion by an exotic grass' by Byun, de Blois & Brisson online via http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12016/abstract. The paper is free to access.

Visit Eleanor Slade's website via http://www.helsinki.fi/foodwebs/Eleanor.htm. Music credit: -the song Neuroleptic trio instrumental 6, and link http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Neuroleptic_Trio/Summer_Variations/Neuroleptic_trio_instrumental_6 -the artist: Neuroleptic Trio: http://www.myspace.com/neuroleptictrio

To access Wim's Special Feature on plant-soil feedbacks in a changing world follow this link http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jec.2013.101.issue-2/issuetoc.

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