{"title":"Enhanced plant litter impacts nematode communities and carbon use efficiency in a mixed forest","authors":"Zhiyong Zhang, Renhui Miao, Sergio Rasmann","doi":"10.1111/1365-2435.14614","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2435.14614","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.</p>","PeriodicalId":172,"journal":{"name":"Functional Ecology","volume":"38 9","pages":"1902-1914"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141650717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"En route to resources: Foraging strategies of plant-associated insects to identify resources in complex dynamic environments","authors":"Q. Rusman, A. Cusumano, I. Vosteen","doi":"10.1111/1365-2435.14606","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2435.14606","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.</p>","PeriodicalId":172,"journal":{"name":"Functional Ecology","volume":"38 8","pages":"1664-1682"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2435.14606","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141611906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lu Wang, Dianye Zhang, Luyao Kang, Ziliang Li, Yuanhe Yang
{"title":"Divergent microbial phosphorous acquisition strategies between active layer and permafrost deposits on the Tibetan Plateau","authors":"Lu Wang, Dianye Zhang, Luyao Kang, Ziliang Li, Yuanhe Yang","doi":"10.1111/1365-2435.14612","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2435.14612","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.</p>","PeriodicalId":172,"journal":{"name":"Functional Ecology","volume":"38 9","pages":"2015-2026"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141575645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wen-Yong Guo, Jan Čuda, Hana Skálová, Carla Lambertini, Simon Pierce, Magdalena Lučanová, Hans Brix, Laura A. Meyerson, Petr Pyšek
{"title":"Climate and genome size shape the intraspecific variation in ecological adaptive strategies of a cosmopolitan grass species","authors":"Wen-Yong Guo, Jan Čuda, Hana Skálová, Carla Lambertini, Simon Pierce, Magdalena Lučanová, Hans Brix, Laura A. Meyerson, Petr Pyšek","doi":"10.1111/1365-2435.14613","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2435.14613","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.</p>","PeriodicalId":172,"journal":{"name":"Functional Ecology","volume":"38 9","pages":"2054-2066"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141577952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. van Bergen, G. Atencio, M. Saastamoinen, P. Beldade
{"title":"Thermal plasticity in protective wing pigmentation is modulated by genotype and food availability in an insect model of seasonal polyphenism","authors":"E. van Bergen, G. Atencio, M. Saastamoinen, P. Beldade","doi":"10.1111/1365-2435.14602","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2435.14602","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.</p>","PeriodicalId":172,"journal":{"name":"Functional Ecology","volume":"38 8","pages":"1765-1778"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2435.14602","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141575644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lara Ferry, Dustin Marshall, Katie J. Field, Emma J. Sayer, Enrico Rezende, Jennifer Meyer
{"title":"Functional Ecology is moving to open access","authors":"Lara Ferry, Dustin Marshall, Katie J. Field, Emma J. Sayer, Enrico Rezende, Jennifer Meyer","doi":"10.1111/1365-2435.14604","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2435.14604","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the very first issue of <i>Functional Ecology</i>, the founding editors, Peter Calow and John Grace, said “The success and identity of a journal depends not so much on the Society behind it, nor even on the editors and their board, but on the scientists contributing to it.” (Calow & Grace, <span>1987</span>). <i>Functional Ecology</i> has been fortunate that many scientists have indeed chosen the journal as the place to publish their exciting work over the years and as we move to become a fully open access journal, we will continue to support the scientists contributing to the journal, as readers, as reviewers and as authors.</p><p><i>Functional Ecology</i> has been deeply committed to increasing the accessibility of the journal for readers and authors for many years. For over a decade, every paper published in the journal has been accompanied by a free plain language summary that makes it easier for readers to find and digest useful articles. We have provided help for authors via publishing workshops held both in person and online and have published several advice articles on effective science writing (Sayer, <span>2018</span>, <span>2019</span>; Sayer & Ferry, <span>2023</span>).</p><p>For over 15 years, we have also offered authors the option to publish Open Access in <i>Functional Ecology</i>, paying an article processing charge to make their findings freely available to the many readers without a subscription to the journal.</p><p>In recent years, the number of authors taking this option has increased significantly, with more than half of our papers now being published open access and thus benefitting from the increased readership that this brings. Some content, however, still remains paywalled and less accessible to readers. In our move to becoming a fully open-access journal, we assure that all our content is equally accessible to all researchers—and we are also taking steps to ensure publishing in the journal remains accessible to all authors. While the majority of our authors have funding for open access available (provided by their department or institution, as part of their grant funding or through the increasing number of transformational deals), we will be providing author waivers through both Research4Life and the separate British Ecological Society waiver policy as well.</p><p>While Research4Life waivers are offered to authors in low-income countries, additional waivers are available for authors submitting to <i>Functional Ecology</i> from the rest of the world. These waivers are granted in line with the BES waiver policy, which applies to all BES open-access journals.</p><p>The importance of the BES waiver policy is evident from the data we have from our sister journal, <i>Methods in Ecology and Evolution</i> (MEE), which became a fully open-access journal two years ago. For MEE, waiver requests have come from (and been granted to) authors in over 15 different countries on six continents, at career stages ranging fro","PeriodicalId":172,"journal":{"name":"Functional Ecology","volume":"38 7","pages":"1462-1463"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2435.14604","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141547758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Functional diversity of neighbours mediates sap flow density and radial growth of focal trees, but in different ways between evergreen and deciduous broadleaved species","authors":"Yongqiang Zhang, Yun-Hao Bai, Xia Chen, Yanpei Guo, Hong-Tu Zhang, Xuejiao Zhang, Shan Li, Bernhard Schmid, Helge Bruelheide, Keping Ma, Zhiyao Tang","doi":"10.1111/1365-2435.14610","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2435.14610","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.</p>","PeriodicalId":172,"journal":{"name":"Functional Ecology","volume":"38 9","pages":"1931-1943"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141525099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megan L. Blanchard, David B. Lowry, Liza M. Holeski
{"title":"Patterns of constitutive and induced herbivore defence are complex, but share a common genetic basis in annual and perennial monkeyflower","authors":"Megan L. Blanchard, David B. Lowry, Liza M. Holeski","doi":"10.1111/1365-2435.14601","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2435.14601","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.</p>","PeriodicalId":172,"journal":{"name":"Functional Ecology","volume":"38 8","pages":"1796-1810"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141505892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mycorrhizal arbitrage, a hypothesis: How mycoheterotrophs could profit from inefficiencies in the biological marketplace","authors":"Brian S. Steidinger","doi":"10.1111/1365-2435.14609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14609","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:list> <jats:list-item>Mycoheterotrophy, whereby plants acquire both carbon and nutrients from a fungal partner, is an evolutionarily puzzling phenomenon. According to biological market models, mycoheterotrophs have nothing to offer and thus should be shunned as trading partners by discriminating fungi. Nevertheless, mycoheterotrophy is common, particularly among orchids, and an estimated 10% of all plant species are facultatively mycoheterotrophic at early stages in their life cycle.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>Reconciling mycoheterotrophy with biological market models, I describe how mycoheterotrophs could use arbitrage trading to net a profit of carbon and nutrients, without acquiring either from the abiotic environment. The model requires that mycoheterotrophs simultaneously buy and sell both carbon and nutrients, exploiting variability in the trading ratios offered by mycorrhizal fungi.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>The model relies on several conditions, including the ability of the mycoheterotroph to form indirect hyphal associations with two or more neighbouring autotrophic mycorrhizal associations, the existence of variable carbon:nutrient exchange ratios among these associations and the ability of mycoheterotrophs to invert the net‐direction of resource trade. Evidence that these conditions occur in a state of nature varies from incontrovertible to plausible given available models.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>The arbitrage model provides evolutionary rationale for mycoheterotrophy from both the plant and fungal perspective. Accordingly, mycoheterotrophs match trading ratios offered by autotrophic plants and, thus, need not be antagonists. The model makes novel predictions that distinguish it from source‐sink models, most notably in the existence of resource exchange inversions at the plant‐mycorrhizal interface. Finally, the model emphasizes market inefficiencies as the foundation on which mycoheterotrophs construct an arbitrage niche.</jats:list-item> </jats:list>Read the free <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" xlink:href=\"https://fesummaries.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/how-mycoheterotrophs-could-profit-from-inefficiencies-in-the-biological-marketplace/\">Plain Language Summary</jats:ext-link> for this article on the Journal blog.","PeriodicalId":172,"journal":{"name":"Functional Ecology","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141505893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecosystem engineers shape ecological network structure and stability: A framework and literature review","authors":"Dirk Sanders, Enric Frago","doi":"10.1111/1365-2435.14608","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1365-2435.14608","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.</p>","PeriodicalId":172,"journal":{"name":"Functional Ecology","volume":"38 8","pages":"1683-1696"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2435.14608","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141505894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}