Special Features

Read the latest Special Features from Functional Ecology:

Special feature: Adaptive foragers and community ecology: linking individuals to communities and ecosystems
Guest edited by Andrew Beckerman, Owen Petchey and Peter Morin.  This Special Feature contains five papers that together support a vision for the future of food-web research centred on adaptive behaviour. They are authored by people who might be considered grand masters of the field as well as people just entering academia. Importantly, they provide perspective and insight while stimulating thought about the use and importance of traits across various scales. All papers in this Special Feature are free to download from Wiley InterScience.

Virtual issue on Foood Webs
This virtual issue of Functional Ecology highlights a selection of articles appearing in the journal that focus broadly on adaptive behaviour, trait responses to climate or other species and food webs.




Special feature: Floral scent in a whole plant context
Guest edited by Robert Raguso from Cornell University in Issue 5.  
This special feature from Functional Ecology addressed the need to explore the full range of fitness consequences of floral VOC variation, and the need to understand how plants use floral VOCs to consolidate their reproductive and defensive imperatives. Rob Raguso sets the background to the special feature in his editorial. He then introduces three papers discussing the nature of signal variation in floral scent and its fitness consequences, and three papers describing how floral volatiles fit into a larger, whole-plant context. Each invited paper in this Special Feature addresses the need to explore the full range of fitness consequences of floral VOC variation, and the need to understand how plants use floral VOCs to consolidate their reproductive
Read the full introduction and all the papers on Wiley InterScience published in the October issue of Functional Ecology.


Special feature: Nutritional Ecology
Our first issue of 2009 saw the publication of a special feature,  comprising eight invited peer-reviewed articles presenting the most up-to-date research in Nutritional Ecology.




Virtual issue on Nutritional Ecology
Don't miss our Nutritional Ecology virtual issue featuring 13 related papers published in Functional Ecology over the past two years. 

Special feature: Towards a Predictive Understanding of Belowground Process Responses to Climate Change
The December 2008 issue of Functional Ecology includes a guest editorial and 7 papers on belowground process responses to climate change.  These papers highlight some of the advances being made and provide directions for future research. Read these special feature articles online here. 

Special feature:  The Evolutionary Ecology of Senescence
The June 2008 issue includes seven influential review articles on the evolutionary ecology of senescence.  Monaghan et al guest edited this special feature in which they consider the underlying causes of senescence looking at the evolutionary ecology of the ageing process summarising the principal mechanisms thought to be involved. Read these papers here.

Special feature: Sexual Selection, Physiology and Performance
This was the second of Functional Ecology's 2007 special features. Papers in this feature focus on a functional approach to sexual selection.  The 6 papers plus the introduction by Irschick et al can be accessed here.

 
Special feature: Evolution on Ecological Time-scales
Andrew Hendry, Scott Carroll and David Reznick brought together 7 papers for this special feature looking at factors that influence evolution on ecological time-scales and to assess the consequences of such evolution.  Read the papers here.

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