British Ecological Society Journals

Music credit: -Artist: Gillicudy (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/gillicuddy/) -Song: Jupiter the Blue (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/gillicuddy/Plays_Guitar/01-jupiter-the-blue)

In this podcast, David Hawke from the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, discusses his recently published paper "Closing the circle: how ecologists can prepare their own quality control material to increase confidence in stable isotope data". Read the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12087/abstract

Music credit: "The Old Country" by Plusplus (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Plusplus/Game_Over/07_Plusplus_-_The_Old_Country)

Robbie Wilson interviews David Jachowski on his work "Unravelling complex associations between physiological state and movement in African elephants." Understanding animal movements involves a complex association of factors. In addition to anatomical constraints and factors like the surrounding environment, more cryptic factors can play a role-- such as an animal's internal, physiological state, or navigational capacity. Complex movement models have been constructed in an attempt to infer an animal's internal state based on movement behaviours, but direct studies of the effect of an individual’s internal state on movement behaviour have been lacking. African elephants are known to alter their behaviour in response to their physiological state, with elevated stress hormone concentrations being associated with reclusive behaviour and aggression towards humans. A better understanding of the link between internal, physiological state and the use of space in relation to the proximity of environmental features a

Journal Editor Marc Cadotte interviews Jeremy James from University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources on his paper "A systems approach to resoring degraded drylands". Selected as Editor's Choice for issue 50:3. Read the paper here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12090/abstract The Editor's Choice article here: http://www.journalofappliedecology.org/view/0/editorschoice503.html

Music credit: "The Old Country" by Plusplus (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Plusplus/Game_Over/07_Plusplus_-_The_Old_Country)

JEC: Senescence Special Feature by British Ecological Society Journals

JEC: Interview with Harper Prize 2012 winner Simon Doxford by British Ecological Society Journals

JEC: Interview with James Rosindell by British Ecological Society Journals

JEC: Interview with Mike Hutchings by British Ecological Society Journals

Visit Ross Mounce's homepage via http://rossmounce.co.uk/ Music credit: Song "One Small Morning" http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Scallions/Agony_Through_Ceremony XE/05_-_One_Small_Mourning_Instrumental Band: "The Scallions" http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Scallions/

Recent analysis of global datasets has shown that plants are constrained in how they allocate resources to their leaves, with trade-offs between building sturdy leaves with a long lifespan that are inefficient in capturing light or building flimsy leaves with a short lifespan and high efficiency. However, it is unknown whether similar patterns occur at more local scales, particularly when you consider the same plant species growing under different conditions. In this study, Justin P. Wright talks with Alan Knapp about the surprising results of examining the effects of varying nitrogen availability and water table depth on the form and function of leaves of over 20 species of wetland plants and what that means for ecologists looking to predict how the addition or subtraction of species will affect the way that ecosystems function. Read the paper here: http://bit.ly/XTUD5H or the lay summary here: http://bit.ly/142W5Gh

Music + Song: + [Carolinian](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/Liv + e_at_WFMU_on_Joe_Belocks_Show_on_7172008/Carolinian) + Artist: [Chatham County Line](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/)

Franciska De Vries (http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/franciska.devries/) is a Journal of Ecology Associate Editor. Music credit: + Song: + [Carolinian](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/Liv + e_at_WFMU_on_Joe_Belocks_Show_on_7172008/Carolinian) + Artist: [Chatham County Line](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/)

Music credit: + Song: [Birmingham Jail](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/Live_at_WFMU_on_Joe_Belocks_Show_on_7172008/Birmingham_Jail) + Artist: [Chatham County Line](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chatham_County_Line/)

Kyle Dexter's website is http://phylodiversity.net/kdexter/HOME.html Music credit: + Song: “Week Fifteen” + Artist: Ben von Wildenhaus + link: + http://freemusicarchive.org/music/BenWildenhaus/Instrumental_Quaalude_ + vol_2/06_Week_Fifteen

Visit Catherine Preece's website http://osbornelab.group.shef.ac.uk/people/catherine-preece/. Music credit: + Song: “Instrumental - The Golden Age” + Artist: Dan Warren + link: + http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dan_Warren/Son_of_Strelka_Son_of_God + /12_Instrumental_-_The_Golden_Age

Read 'Plant functional group identity and diversity determine biotic resistance to invasion by an exotic grass' by Byun, de Blois & Brisson online via http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12016/abstract. The paper is free to access.

Visit Eleanor Slade's website via http://www.helsinki.fi/foodwebs/Eleanor.htm. Music credit: -the song Neuroleptic trio instrumental 6, and link http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Neuroleptic_Trio/Summer_Variations/Neuroleptic_trio_instrumental_6 -the artist: Neuroleptic Trio: http://www.myspace.com/neuroleptictrio

To access Wim's Special Feature on plant-soil feedbacks in a changing world follow this link http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jec.2013.101.issue-2/issuetoc.