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Proxy problems: Why a calibration is essential for interpreting quantified changes in energy expenditure from biologging data Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Lewis G. Halsey; Caleb M. Bryce
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Beyond forest succession: a gap model to study ecosystem functioning and tree community composition under climate change Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Xavier Morin; Harald Bugmann; François de Coligny; Nicolas Martin‐StPaul; Maxime Cailleret; Jean‐Marc Limousin; Jean‐Marc Ourcival; Bernard Prevosto; Guillaume Simioni; Maude Toigo; Michel Vennetier; Eugénie Catteau; Joannès Guillemot
Climate change impacts forest functioning and dynamics, and large uncertainties remain regarding the interactions between species composition, demographic processes, and environmental drivers. There are few robust tools available to link these processes, which precludes accurate projections and recommendations for long‐term forest management. Forest gap‐models present a balance between complexity and
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Tracking temperate fish reveals their relevance for plant seed dispersal Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Andrea J.E. Mulder; Roland van Aalderen; Casper H.A. van Leeuwen
Seed dispersal is a fundamental process for plant communities, especially now that our changing world demands rapid colonization of new habitats. Long‐distance dispersal is especially important for plant population persistence and range expansions. The contribution of fishes to plant seed dispersal in aquatic ecosystems (ichthyochory) has long been overlooked. Although we know fish disperse seeds,
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Are belowground clonal traits good predictors of ecosystem functioning in temperate grasslands? Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Jitka Klimešová; Ondřej Mudrák; Jana Martínková; Aleš Lisner; Jan Lepš; Arinawa Liz Filartiga; Gianluigi Ottaviani
1. In herbaceous communities (which host many perennial species), belowground clonal organs and traits remain largely overlooked in ecosystem functioning studies. However, the belowground compartment is expected to play a key role as the greatest proportion of biomass is allocated belowground. Our main goal was to test whether including underexplored clonal traits (in‐tandem with widely used aboveground
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Associations between testosterone and immune activity in alligators depend on bacteria species and temperature Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Ashley A. LaVere; Heather J. Hamlin; Russell H. Lowers; Benjamin B. Parrott; Vanessa O. Ezenwa
1. The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (ICHH) postulates that testosterone supports the development of secondary sexual traits while simultaneously suppressing immune function, creating a trade‐off between trait quality and pathogen vulnerability.
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Multitrophic richness enhances ecosystem multifunctionality of tropical shallow lakes Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Dieison A. Moi; Gustavo Q. Romero; Pablo A.P. Antiqueira; Roger P. Mormul; Franco Teixeira de Mello; Claudia C. Bonecker
The role of multitrophic diversity in sustaining multiple functions simultaneously (multifunctionality) is still poorly understood in natural communities, especially in highly diverse aquatic ecosystems. Existing studies have focused on the effect of single trophic groups on ecosystem function and on individual ecosystem functions, neglecting the fact that multiple trophic groups are needed to maintain
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Coexistence and bush encroachment in african savannas: the role of the regeneration niche Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 J.R. Lewis; G.A. Verboom; E.C. February
Globally there is increasing concern over the biodiversity and economic losses associated with bush encroachment. The dominant species responsible for bush encroachment in Africa belong to the mimosoid genera Senegalia and Vachellia, with previous research identifying Vachellia as the more aggressive invader. We asked whether these genera have evolved different traits to enable germination and establishment
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Toxin or medication? Immunotherapeutic effects of nicotine on a specialist caterpillar Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Michael Garvey; Justin Bredlau; Karen Kester; Curtis Creighton; Ian Kaplan
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The interplay between social rank, physiological constraints and investment in courtship in male spotted hyenas Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Eve Davidian; Bettina Wachter; Ilja Heckmann; Martin Dehnhard; Heribert Hofer; Oliver P. Höner
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Putative resistance and tolerance mechanisms have little impact on disease progression for an emerging salamander pathogen Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Mark Q. Wilber; Edward Davis Carter; Matthew J. Gray; Cheryl J. Briggs
Resistance and tolerance are unique host defense strategies that can limit the impacts of a pathogen on a host. However, for most wildlife‐pathogen systems there are still fundamental uncertainties regarding 1) how changes in resistance and tolerance can affect disease outcomes and 2) the mechanisms underlying resistance and tolerance in host populations. Here, we first compared observed patterns of
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Cascading effects of algal warming in a freshwater community Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 M. Tseng; C.M. Di Filippo; M. Fung; J.O. Kim; I.P. Forster; Y. Zhou
1. Research on the effects of climate warming on ecological communities has focused on how temperature affects resource quantity. However, resource quality is also affected by warming, and changes in resource quality can have meaningful effects on the productivity of higher trophic levels.
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Individual energy dynamics reveal non‐linear interaction of stressors threatening migratory fish populations Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 P. Catalina Chaparro‐Pedraza; André M. de Roos
1. Migratory fish populations, like salmon, have dramatically declined for decades. Because of their extensive and energetically costly breeding migration, anadromous fish are sensitive to a variety of environmental stressors, in particular infrastructure building in freshwater streams that increases the energetic requirements of the breeding migration and food declines in the ocean.
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Asymmetric responses of resource use efficiency to previous‐year precipitation in a semi‐arid grassland Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Juanjuan Han; Jiquan Chen; Weiyu Shi; Jian Song; Dafeng Hui; Jingyi Ru; Shiqiang Wan
1. Intensified inter‐annual fluctuations in precipitation could profoundly impact terrestrial ecosystems. However, how changes in previous‐year precipitation influence current ecosystem functioning (e.g., resource use efficiency) in semi‐arid regions remains unclear.
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Physiological and behavioural effects of anemone bleaching on symbiont anemonefish in the wild Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Daphne Cortese; Tommy Norin; Ricardo Beldade; Amélie Crespel; Shaun S. Killen; Suzanne C. Mills
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Localised climate change defines ant communities in human‐modified tropical landscapes Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Michael J. W. Boyle; Tom R. Bishop; Sarah H. Luke; Michiel van Breugel; Theodore A. Evans; Marion Pfeifer; Tom M. Fayle; Stephen R. Hardwick; Rachel Isolde Lane‐Shaw; Kalsum M. Yusah; Imogen C. R. Ashford; Oliver S. Ashford; Emma Garnett; Edgar C. Turner; Clare L. Wilkinson; Arthur Y. C. Chung; Robert M. Ewers
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Thermal constraints on energy balance, behaviour and spatial distribution of grizzly bears Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-10 Savannah A. Rogers; Charles T. Robbins; Paul D. Mathewson; Anthony M. Carnahan; Frank T. van Manen; Mark A. Haroldson; Warren P. Porter; Taylor R. Rogers; Terence Soule; Ryan A. Long
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Plant quantity and quality regulate the diversity of arthropod communities in a semi‐arid grassland Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-13 Xiaoming Lu; Xuezhen Zhao; Taiki Tachibana; Kei Uchida; Takehiro Sasaki; Yongfei Bai
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The influence of the global COVID‐19 pandemic on manuscript submissions and editor and reviewer performance at six ecology journals Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-08 Charles W. Fox; Jennifer Meyer
Government policies attempting to slow the spread of COVID‐19 have reduced access to research laboratories and shifted many scholars to working from home. These disruptions will likely influence submissions to scholarly journals, and affect the time available for editors and reviewers to participate in peer review. In this editorial we examine how journal submissions, and editorial and peer review
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A unifying, eco‐physiological framework for animal dormancy Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Kathryn Wilsterman; Mallory A. Ballinger; Caroline M. Williams
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The phenobs initiative – A standardised protocol for monitoring phenological responses to climate change using herbaceous plant species in botanical gardens Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Birgit Nordt; Isabell Hensen; Solveig Franziska Bucher; Martin Freiberg; Richard B. Primack; Albert‐Dieter Stevens; Aletta Bonn; Christian Wirth; Desiree Jakubka; Carolin Plos; Maria Sporbert; Christine Römermann
Changes in phenology induced by climate change occur across the globe with important implications for ecosystem functioning and services, species performance and trophic interactions. Much of the work on phenology, especially leaf out and flowering, has been conducted on woody plant species. Less is known about the responses in phenology of herbaceous species induced by global change even though they
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Differing thermal sensitivities in a host‐parasitoid interaction: high, fluctuating developmental temperatures produce dead wasps and giant caterpillars Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 M. Elizabeth Moore; Christina A. Hill; Joel G. Kingsolver
1. Insect parasitoids, and the arthropod hosts they consume during development, are important ecological players in almost all environments across the globe. As ectothermic organisms, both parasitoid and host are strongly impacted by environmental temperature. If thermal tolerances differ between host insect and parasitoid, then the outcome of their interaction will be determined by the ambient temperature
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Glucocorticoid levels predict subsequent social tactic in females of a facultatively social mammal Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Davina L. Hill; Neville Pillay; Carsten Schradin
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History of co‐occurrence shapes predation effects on functional diversity and structure at low latitudes Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-05 Diana P. López; Amy L. Freestone
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Foliar summer frost resistance measured via electrolyte leakage approach as related to plant distribution, community composition and plant traits Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Solveig Franziska Bucher; Sergey Rosbakh
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Mating under climate change: Impact of simulated heatwaves on the reproduction of model pollinators Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Baptiste Martinet; Ella Zambra; Kimberly Przybyla; Thomas Lecocq; Abigaël Anselmo; Denis Nonclercq; Pierre Rasmont; Denis Michez; Elise Hennebert
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Topography strongly affects drought stress and xylem embolism resistance in woody plants from a karst forest in Southwest China Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-05 Qi‐Wei Zhang; Shi‐Dan Zhu; Steven Jansen; Kun‐Fang Cao
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Phantom river noise alters orb‐weaving spider abundance, web size and prey capture Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Dylan G. E. Gomes; Thomas Hesselberg; Jesse R. Barber
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Niche and neutral processes leave distinct structural imprints on indirect interactions in mutualistic networks Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-05 Benno I. Simmons; Andrew P. Beckerman; Katrine Hansen; Pietro K. Maruyama; Constantinos Televantos; Jeferson Vizentin‐Bugoni; Bo Dalsgaard
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Water availability rather than temperature control soil fauna community structure and prey‐predator interactions Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-19 Adriane Aupic‐Samain; Virginie Baldy; Ninon Delcourt; Paul Henning Krogh; Thierry Gauquelin; Catherine Fernandez; Mathieu Santonja
1. The ongoing climate change may strongly impact soil biodiversity with cascading effects on the processes they drive. Thus, it is of prime interest to improve our knowledge about responses by soil organisms such as collembolans to expected shifts in environmental conditions by considering communities comprising both detritivores and predators.
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A meta‐analysis of effects of physiological integration in clonal plants under homogeneous vs. heterogeneous environments Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-05 Jianyong Wang; Tongtong Xu; Yue Wang; Guangyin Li; Iram Abdullah; Zhiwei Zhong; Jushan Liu; Wanyue Zhu; Ling Wang; Deli Wang; Fei‐Hai Yu
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Social learning by mate‐choice copying increases dispersal and reduces local adaptation Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-05 Manuel Sapage; Susana A. M. Varela; Hanna Kokko
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Defensive structures influence fighting outcomes Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Zachary Emberts; John J. Wiens
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Egg size‐mediated sex allocation and mating‐regulated reproductive investment in a haplodiploid thrips species Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Alihan Katlav; James M. Cook; Markus Riegler
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Distinct carbon fractions drive a generalisable two‐pool model of fungal necromass decomposition Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Craig R. See; Chris W. Fernandez; Anna M. Conley; Lang C. DeLancey; Katherine A. Heckman; Peter G. Kennedy; Sarah E. Hobbie
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Olfactory perception of herbivore‐induced plant volatiles elicits counter‐defences in larvae of the tobacco cutworm Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Zhongxiang Sun; Yibin Lin; Rumeng Wang; Qilin Li; Qi Shi; Scott R. Baerson; Li Chen; Rensen Zeng; Yuanyuan Song
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Stomping in silence: Conceptualizing trampling effects on soils in polar tundra Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Maria Tuomi; Maria Väisänen; Henni Ylänne; Francis Q. Brearley; Isabel C. Barrio; Kari Anne Bråthen; Isabell Eischeid; Bruce C. Forbes; Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir; Anders L. Kolstad; Petr Macek; Matteo Petit Bon; James D. M. Speed; Sari Stark; Kristin Svavarsdóttir; Jóhann Thórsson; C. Guillermo Bueno
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Urbanization‐driven climate change increases invertebrate lipid demand, relative to protein—A response to dehydration Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-28 Jamie E. Becker; Kevin E. McCluney
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Longitudinal dynamics and behavioural correlates of telomeres in male wire‐tailed manakins Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-21 Ben J. Vernasco; Roslyn Dakin; Ariana D. Majer; Mark F. Haussmann; T. Brandt Ryder; Ignacio T. Moore
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Energetic scaling across different host densities and its consequences for pathogen proliferation Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-28 Louise Solveig Nørgaard; Giulia Ghedini; Ben L. Phillips; Matthew D. Hall
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Patterns in intraspecific variation in root traits are species‐specific along an elevation gradient Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Monique Weemstra; Grégoire T. Freschet; Alexia Stokes; Catherine Roumet
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The inducible defences of large mammals to human lethality Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Robert A. Montgomery; David W. Macdonald; Matthew W. Hayward
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Phylogenetically conserved host traits and local abiotic conditions jointly drive the geography of parasite intensity Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Daniella LoScerbo; Maxwell J. Farrell; Julie Arrowsmith; Julia Mlynarek; Jean‐Philippe Lessard
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Ants adjust their tool use strategy in response to foraging risk Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Aiming Zhou; Yuzhe Du; Jian Chen
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Tree phylogenetic diversity structures multitrophic communities Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Michael Staab; Xiaojuan Liu; Thorsten Assmann; Helge Bruelheide; François Buscot; Walter Durka; Alexandra Erfmeier; Alexandra‐Maria Klein; Keping Ma; Stefan Michalski; Tesfaye Wubet; Bernhard Schmid; Andreas Schuldt
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Improved estimation of gut passage time considerably affects trait‐based dispersal models Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Andrew J. Abraham; Tomos O. Prys‐Jones; Annelies De Cuyper; Chase Ridenour; Gareth P. Hempson; Toby Hocking; Marcus Clauss; Christopher E. Doughty
Animals are important vectors for transporting seeds, nutrients and microbes across landscapes. However, models that quantify the magnitude of these ecosystem services across a broad range of taxa often rely on generalised mass‐based scaling parameters for gut passage time. This relationship is weak and fundamentally breaks down when considering individual species, indicating that current models may
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Nonlinear drought plasticity reveals intraspecific diversity in a dominant grass species Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Ava M. Hoffman; Melinda D. Smith
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Rare tree species have narrow environmental but not functional niches Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Xiangcheng Mi; Zhenhua Sun; Yunfeng Song; Xiaojuan Liu; Jie Yang; Junjie Wu; Xiuqin Ci; Jie Li; Luxiang Lin; Min Cao; Keping Ma
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Frugivory underpins the nitrogen cycle Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Nacho Villar; Claudia Paz; Valesca Zipparro; Sergio Nazareth; Leticia Bulascoschi; Elisabeth S. Bakker; Mauro Galetti
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Contrasting responses of plant and lichen carbon‐based secondary compounds across an elevational gradient Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Johan Asplund; Kristel van Zuijlen; Ruben E. Roos; Tone Birkemoe; Kari Klanderud; Simone I. Lang; David A. Wardle; Line Nybakken
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Do visual traits honestly signal floral rewards at community level? Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-07 Pedro L. Ortiz; Pilar Fernández‐Díaz; Daniel Pareja; Marcial Escudero; Montserrat Arista
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Coloration of spotless starling nestlings shows genetic and environmentally determined characteristics while begging for food Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Ester Martínez‐Renau; Cristina Ruiz‐Castellano; Manuel Azcárate‐García; María Dolores Barón; Juan José Soler
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Disentangling the roles of bottom‐up and top‐down drivers in the trade‐off between food acquisition and safety in prey with multiple predators Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Olivier Pays; Pierrick Blanchard; Simon Chamaillé‐Jammes; Marion Valeix; Andrew J. Loveridge; David W. Macdonald; Stéphanie Périquet; Esther van der Meer; Patrick Duncan; Godfrey Mtare; Hervé Fritz
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Lianas explore the forest canopy more effectively than trees under drier conditions Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 José A. Medina‐Vega; Frans Bongers; Stefan A. Schnitzer; Frank J. Sterck
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Assessing the functional significance of metabolism and activity in niche diversification Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Jonathan A. Green
Since its conception over 100 years ago, the idea of the ecological niche remains a topic of enduring interest (Pocheville, 2015). The continued coexistence of multiple species and the myriad ways in which species adapt to, and survive, the environments in which they make their home continues to fascinate not only fully time ecologists, but those simply interested in the natural world. Among scientists
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Sex differences in alternative reproductive tactics in response to predation risk in tree crickets Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Viraj R. Torsekar; Rohini Balakrishnan
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A multidimensional approach to the expression of phenotypic plasticity Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Thibaut Morel‐Journel; Virginie Thuillier; Frank Pennekamp; Estelle Laurent; Delphine Legrand; Alexis S. Chaine; Nicolas Schtickzelle
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Corrigendum Funct. Ecol. (IF 4.434) Pub Date : 2020-09-09
In Jäschke, Heberling, and Wesche (2020), the authors identified an error in Figure 3 after publication. The authors have determined that Figures 3(d) functional richness and 3(e) functional divergence were wrongly plotted due to a small error in the R‐code. The authors regret this error. This error does not affect the figure caption or the main text of the article. The corrected figure is reproduced
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