Functional Ecology
Copyright © 2009 British Ecological SocietyAn Official Journal of the British Ecological Society
- Edited by: Charles Fox, Ken Thompson, James Cresswell and Frank Messina with Liz Baker
- ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 21/124 (Ecology)
- Impact Factor: 3.699
Current Issue
- Two steps forward, one step back…
- Published online on Nov 09, 2009
- Spring 2007 warmth and frost: phenology, damage and refoliation in a temperate deciduous forest
- Published online on Jun 11, 2009
- The carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of Australian grasses in relation to climate
- Published online on Jun 15, 2009
Early View
- Ultraviolet crown colouration affects contest outcomes among male blue tits, but only in the absence of prior encounters
- Published online on Nov 02, 2009
- Spring migration decisions in relation to weather are predicted by wing morphology among trans-Mediterranean migratory birds
- Published online on Nov 02, 2009
- Male moths provide pollination benefits in the Silene latifolia–Hadena bicruris nursery pollination system
- Published online on Nov 02, 2009
- Tree transpiration varies spatially in response to atmospheric but not edaphic conditions
- Published online on Nov 02, 2009
- Differential selection on sprint speed and ad libitum feeding behaviour in active vs. sit-and-wait foraging spiders
- Published online on Oct 29, 2009
Special FeatureS
Floral scent in a whole-plant context guest edited by Rob Raguso. Our second special feature of 2009 is now available in issue 5.
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Latest virtual issue: Causes and Consequences of Adaptive Evolution
News & Highlights
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Two recently published papers recommended by our editors:
'This is a very interesting and unique paper that examines selection on performance in invertebrates', read Jonathan Pruitt's paper here.
Also Traver et al's paper on spatial distribution of transpiration. Read the authors' summary.
Read Yanagi & Tuda's paper about a three-way interaction between egg size, maternal density and paternal strain in the seed beetle species Callosobruchus chinensis.
' A significant contribution to the field ' were the words our editor used to describe Rory Wilson's paper Resource partitioning and niche hyper-volume overlap in free-living Pygoscelid penguins - read more.
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