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
- Floral scent in a whole-plant context: moving beyond pollinator attraction
- Published online on Sep 18, 2009
- The evolution of floral scent: the influence of olfactory learning by insect pollinators on the honest signalling of floral rewards
- Published online on Sep 18, 2009
- Sniffing out patterns of sexual dimorphism in floral scent
- 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
Read the latest ... Just out online!
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.
Also new on Early view Riou & Hamer's
paper on lipid metabolism, begging behaviour & obesity in nestling seabirds
Manx shearwater photo by David Boyle©.
Rouleau et al look at swimming performance and morphological differences in brook trout. Read their summary now.
Read about the behavioural & physiological responses of Adelie penguins to inter-annual changes in ocean climate just published on Early View. Beaulieu et al comment on their paper.
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