(1) Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition (IFZ), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, (2) Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (3) Institute for Plant Ecology, Research Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutritio...

EDWARD A. D. MITCHELL†*, ALEXANDRE BUTTLER‡, PHILIPPE GROSVERNIER§, HÅKAN RYDIN¶, ANDY SIEGENTHALER† and JEAN-MICHEL GOBAT† †Department of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany, University of Neuchâtel, Rue Émile Argand 11, CH-2007 Neuchâtel, Switzerland; ‡Laboratoire de Chrono-écologie, UMR 6565 CNRS, UFR des Sciences et Techniques, 16 route de Gray, Université de Franche-Comté, F-25030, Besançon...

1 Department of Natural Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy and 4 Department of Veterinary Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackeho 1-3, CZ-612 42 Brno, Czech Republic, 2 Department of Plant Biology and 5 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedel...

1Lendület Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary E-mails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 2Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 3NARIC, Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Gödöllő, H...

The way that plants are conceptualized in the context of ecological understanding is changing. In one direction, a reductionist school is pulling plants apart into a list of measured ‘traits’, from which ecological function and outcomes of species interactions may be inferred. This special issue offers an alternative, and more holistic, view: that the ecological functions performed by a plant w...

Hard, soft and just right: variations in linked selection and 1 recombination drive genomic divergence during speciation of aspens 2 3 Jing Wang, Nathaniel R. Street, Douglas G. Scofield, Pär K. Ingvarsson 4 5 1 Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-90187, 6 Umeå, Sweden 7 2 Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, SE8 90187, Ume...

A growing body of research on plant-microbe interactions in soil is contributing to the development of a new, microbially based perspective on plant community ecology. Soil-dwelling microorganisms are diverse, and interactions with plants vary with respect to specificity, environmental heterogeneity, and fitness impact. Two microbial processes that may exert key influences on plant community st...

Plant secondary chemistry is now a paradigmatic example of adaptation. However, more than 120 years ago (70 years before the oft-cited works of Fraenkel or Ehrlich and Raven ignited the field of chemical ecology), a female scientist named Helen Cecilia de Silver Abbott (1857–1904) published an article in The American Naturalist introducing the radical idea that plant chemistry should be conside...

The way that plants are conceptualized in the context of ecological understanding is changing. In one direction, a reductionist school is pulling plants apart into a list of measured 'traits', from which ecological function and outcomes of species interactions may be inferred. This special issue offers an alternative, and more holistic, view: that the ecological functions performed by a plant w...