Functional Ecology

Copyright © 2010 British Ecological Society

An Official Journal of the British Ecological Society

Edited by: Duncan Irschick, Charles Fox, Ken Thompson and Frank Messina with Liz Baker
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking:
2009: 15/127 (Ecology) Impact Factor: 4.546

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Current Issue

Rethinking the value of high wood density
Published online on Mar 15, 2010

The aerodynamics and efficiency of wind pollination in grasses
Published online on Mar 24, 2010

What drives retrogressive succession? Plant strategies to tolerate infertile and poorly drained soils
Published online on Feb 17, 2010

Early View

High levels of organochlorines may affect hatching sex ratio and hatchling body mass in arctic glaucous gulls
Published online on Aug 26, 2010

Experimental evidence for the Berg hypothesis: vegetative traits are more sensitive than pollination traits to environmental variation
Published online on Aug 25, 2010

Size‐selective predation and predator‐induced life‐history shifts alter the outcome of competition between planktonic grazers
Published online on Aug 23, 2010

Differences in fine root productivity between mixed‐ and single‐species stands
Published online on Aug 19, 2010

Macronutrient balance mediates trade‐offs between immune function and life history traits
Published online on Aug 19, 2010

News & Highlights

The sweet smell (and colour) of success;
Bees use both visual and olfactory senses to find food .......
read on now Burger et al (Image © H Burger)

New Virtual Issue
Edited by Rob Raguso, Cornell University, The Ecology & Evolution of Plant Volatiles

Read author lay summaries here!

Special FeatureS

New special feature coming soon: The Ecology of Antioxidants & Oxidative Stress in Animals

Vol 24, Issue 1, Adaptive foragers and community ecology: linking individuals to communities and ecosystems - guest edited by Andrew Beckerman, Owen Petchey and Peter Morin. All papers in this Special Feature are free to download.

Floral scent in a whole-plant context guest edited by Rob Raguso. Published in Vol 23,
issue 5.

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