FE: Brad Butterfield speaks with Alan Knapp about his paper on plant facilitation

JEC: Interview with James Rosindell by British Ecological Society

19 Apr 201316min

JEC: Interview with Mike Hutchings by British Ecological Society

11 Apr 201310min

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/

4 Apr 201318min

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

18 Mars 201310min

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/)

12 Mars 20136min

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/)

12 Mars 201311min

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/)

12 Mars 20133min

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

7 Mars 20139min