Category: Behind the paper

The Glen Finglas Experiment and the slow pace of change in upland communities

Posted on June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Robin Pakeman

Looking up Glen nam Meann (Lat 56.27°N, Long 4.38°W). The vegetation is a mosaic of different vegetation types with the foreground dominated by *Molinia caerulea* and *Juncus effusus*. Patches of *Agrostis-Festuca* grassland can be seen across the river as brighter green patches.

Trudging through treefalls

Posted on May 11, 2020August 25, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Kwek Yan Chong

Before (2011, left) and after (2015, right) five years of succession following a windstorm. Photo credit: Alex Yee (left) and Hao Ran Lai (right).

This post refers to the article Short‐term responses in a secondary tropical forest after a severe windstorm event by Yee et al.…

The man who sampled a grassland for 25 years – and his data got eventually published

Posted on May 1, 2020June 18, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Kryštof Chytrý, Milan Chytrý, Felícia M. Fischer and Jakub Těšitel

Jiří Danihelka (right) sampling permanent plots on Děvín Hill in 2012, accompanied by Adrian Indreica (left). Photo credit: Gianmaria Bonari.

This post refers to the article Weather fluctuations drive short-term dynamics and long-term stability in plant communities: a 25-year study in a Central European dry grassland by Fischer et al.…

Studying vascular epiphytes is very hard!

Posted on April 26, 2020April 26, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva & Gerhard Zotz

Vascular epiphyte species fully covering tree branches of a cloud mountain rainforest tree at ca. 2200 m. a.s.l. in Southern Ecuador (photo credit: Florian A. Werner).

This post (and video inside) refer to the article EpIG‐DB: A database of vascular epiphyte assemblages in the Neotropics by Mendieta-Leiva et al.…

How we found which traits predict pairwise interactions in a mountain grassland

Posted on April 22, 2020April 23, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Hana Skálová, Tomáš Herben, Věra Hadincová, Sylvie Pecháčková and František Krahulec

Recording of the plants in the permanent grid, by Věra Hadincová (foreground) and Viera Mrázová (background). Photo credit: Sylvie Pecháčková.

This post refers to the article Which traits predict pairwise interactions in a mountain grassland?…

Small is beautiful: grassroots projects feed global data synthesis

Posted on March 12, 2020March 12, 2020 by David Zeleny

Provided by Alison Munson

Traits of Plants in Canada (TOPIC) workshop at Mont St-Hilaire, Québec, CANADA. Lead scientists centre front: Isabelle Aubin (right, in orange) and Alison Munson (left of Isabelle). Photo credit: Martin Duval.

This post refers to the perspective article Managing data locally to answer questions globally: the role of collaborative science in ecology by Aubin et al.…

Bogged down in the European marsh vegetation classification: a short story of a long project

Posted on February 22, 2020February 29, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Flavia Landucci

Drawing summarizing the ecology and relationship of some marsh communities. By Flavia Landucci.

This post refers to the article Classification of the European marsh vegetation (Phragmito‐Magnocaricetea) to the association level by Flavia Landucci et al.…

Delving into “The Corridors of Time”: ancient hedgerows connected to woodlands are living museums of forest biodiversity

Posted on February 4, 2020March 1, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post is provided by Jonathan Lenoir & Guillaume Decocq

Figure 1: A dense network of hedgerows in the so-called “bocage” landscape in the Thiérache region in northern France (Picardie, Hauts-de-France). Photo by Guillaume Decocq.

This post refers to the article “Historical continuity and spatial connectivity ensure hedgerows are effective corridors for forest plants: evidence from the species-time-area relationship” by Jonathan Lenoir et al.…

Dispersal traits may not tell us what we hope for: the case study from understory of oak-dominated forest

Posted on November 28, 2019March 3, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by David Zelený & Markéta Chudomelová

Recording herbs in the understory of oak-dominated temperate broadleaf forest in Němčičky, Czech Republic. Photo by David Zelený

This post refers to the article Tracing the signs of local dispersal in the temperate forest understorey using spatially structured vegetation data by Markéta Chudomelová and David Zelený, published in the Journal of Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12835…