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IF 4.6 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Functional Ecology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI:10.1111/1365-2435.14583

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The Purple-throated Carib (Eulampis jugularis) is a large hummingbird, endemic to the islands of the Lesser Antilles. It is the largest hummingbird in the Caribbean and has a close ecological relationship with Heliconia bihai and H. caribaea flowers. Photo credit : Maximilian Vollstädt.

This month's cover image is provided by the authors of ‘The role of insularity: Plants have few ornithophilous traits but are visited by morphologically more distinct hummingbirds in the Caribbean islands’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70068), which features in this issue. They compiled an extensive dataset of plant–hummingbird interactions and associated functional traits and tested whether biogeographical regions differed in the proportion of ornithophilous floral traits and functional diversity of plant–hummingbird interactions. Their results highlight the influence of insularity on functional traits and plant-pollinator interactions.

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紫喉加勒比鸟（Eulampis jugularis）是一种大型蜂鸟，小安的列斯群岛特有。它是加勒比地区最大的蜂鸟，与Heliconia bihai和H. caribaea花有着密切的生态关系。图片来源：Maximilian Vollstädt。本月的封面图片由《孤岛的作用：植物几乎没有鸟类的特征，但在加勒比岛屿上有形态更独特的蜂鸟来访》（https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70068）的作者提供。他们编制了一个广泛的植物-蜂鸟相互作用和相关功能性状的数据集，并测试了生物地理区域在亲鸟花性状的比例和植物-蜂鸟相互作用的功能多样性方面是否存在差异。他们的研究结果强调了岛屿性对功能性状和植物与传粉者相互作用的影响。

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Functional Ecology 环境科学-生态学

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

1.90%

发文量

243

审稿时长

4 months

期刊介绍： Functional Ecology publishes high-impact papers that enable a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to the ecosystem scale. Because of the multifaceted nature of this challenge, papers can be based on a wide range of approaches. Thus, manuscripts may vary from physiological, genetics, life-history, and behavioural perspectives for organismal studies to community and biogeochemical studies when the goal is to understand ecosystem and larger scale ecological phenomena. We believe that the diverse nature of our journal is a strength, not a weakness, and we are open-minded about the variety of data, research approaches and types of studies that we publish. Certain key areas will continue to be emphasized: studies that integrate genomics with ecology, studies that examine how key aspects of physiology (e.g., stress) impact the ecology of animals and plants, or vice versa, and how evolution shapes interactions among function and ecological traits. Ecology has increasingly moved towards the realization that organismal traits and activities are vital for understanding community dynamics and ecosystem processes, particularly in response to the rapid global changes occurring in earth’s environment, and Functional Ecology aims to publish such integrative papers.