Guest post by Daniel Stuart, MEnvSc Candidate in the Department of Physical & Environmental Science at the University of Toronto-Scarbor...

Daniel C. Laughlin. 2013. The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly. Journal of Ecology. Accepted...

Schiffers, K. et al. 2011. Root plasticity buffers competition among plants: theory meets experimental data. Ecology. 92:3. Ashton et ...

I really like papers that teach me something that I didn’t know. But, I love papers that show me that what I learned is wrong. This is the c...

From Sept 13 I attended the Journal of Ecology Centenary symposium all morning, where the talks were broad overviews of select areas in pla...

Over the past several years a multitude of papers linking patterns of evolutionary relatedness to community structure and species coexistenc...

As ecological systems are altered with cascading changes in diversity, the oft-asked question is: does diversity matter for ecosystem functi...

In order to promote the persistence and possible spread of extremely rare plant species, ecologists need to know why a species is rare in th...

Understanding how species coexist has been the raison d'etre for many ecologists over the past 100 years. The quest to understand and ex...

The evolution of negative interactions seems like a logical consequence of natural selection. Organisms compete for resources or view one an...

Research over the past 20 years has shown that plant communities with greater diversity maintain higher productivity, greater stability and ...

Disclaimer, this was modified from an editorial I wrote for the Journal of Applied Ecology . In the quest to understand species invasions, w...

Some of the earliest ecologists, like Eugen Warming and Christen Raunkiaer , were enthralled with the minutia of the differences in plant l...