🚨Just under three weeks left to submit your photos to our 2026 Capturing Ecology competition! Whether it's pictures of you out in the field or something that offers a different perspective on our ecological world, we encourage you to submit! ⏰️31/08/2026 Find out more👇 buff.ly/ANpnIuZ 🧪🌍️

☀️Our August issue is out now!☀️ 📙Cover: Ectomycorrhizas on a fine tree root, viewed under a stereomicroscope. Each pale, swollen tip marks where a soil fungus has wrapped around the root, trading mineral nutrients for plant sugars 📸Credit: Benjamin Underwood Read it here👇️ buff.ly/EgvHSNZ 🧪🌍️

📢Our Managing Editor is at #ISBE2026! 👋Say hello to Jenny at the BES stand, between Sala Copenaghen and Sala Dublino @isbe2026.bsky.social 🧪🌍️

☀️Our July issue is out now!☀️ 📙On the cover: Male red-sided garter snakes courting a female at a spring mating aggregation in Manitoba, Canada🐍 Photo credit: David L. Hubert Read it here👇️ buff.ly/NOG2sme 🧪🌍️

🚨Our June Issue is out now!🚨 📙On the cover: The photosynthetic sponge species Aplysina archeri. Photograph by Benjamin Mueller🪸 Read it here👇️ buff.ly/kixArEN 🧪🌍️

🌍️This June, the BES is hosting a two-day event to explore how we can deliver effective nature-based solutions to provide stacked benefits at greater scales🧪 📅29-30 June 📍National STEM Learning Centre, York Register for tickets today 👇 buff.ly/ruF7Fk9 🧵1/2

💡This cover image is provided by the guest editors of the special focus “Phenology-trait relationships across different scales and organisational levels”, which features in this issue! buff.ly/MXO81Pi 🧵 2/3 🧪🌍️

🌻Functional Ecology's May issue is out now!🌻 📙On the cover: Monitoring phenological data (Credit: Robert Rauschkolb) 📖Read it here👇️ buff.ly/W70P6XE 🧵1/3 🧪🌍️

⏰️ There's still time to submit a proposal to our Special Feature with @jappliedecology.bsky.social and @journalofecology.bsky.social! 🐛 We're looking to further understanding of how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions 🔍️ Find out more here 👉️ buff.ly/Lm9UISB

“I hope that the privilege of receiving the Haldane Prize helps introduce ecological acclimation concepts to new audiences - we worked hard to make the framework widely applicable.” 🧵3/5

Michael and team proposed this framework to reduce climate disequilibrium, the difference between the present ecological state and that expected in the future. This new, unifying approach should enhance communication and collaboration among basic and applied ecologists across many disciplines 🧵2/5

We’re thrilled to announce Michael Stemkovski as the winner of Functional Ecology’s 2025 Haldane Prize! 🏆 Michael develops "ecological acclimation" as a framework for synthesizing work across biological scales and disciplinary areas, as well as time scales🌍️🧪 @mishastemkovski.bsky.social 🧵1/5

🐣Our April issue is out now!🐣 📙On the cover: A frontal picture of the native bumblebee Bombus dahlbomii (the largest bumblebee in the world) obtained through stack-photography (Credit: Manuel López-Aliste) 📖Read it here: buff.ly/4mVqDga 🧪🌍️

🚨We're excited to reveal the shortlist for Functional Ecology's 2025 Haldane Prize!🚨 🏅This is awarded to the best paper in the journal by an early career author 💡See the full list below 👉️https://buff.ly/Te56j18 🧪🌍️

🌷Our March Issue is out now!🌷 📙On the cover: A digitally coloured scanning electron micrograph of barbed defensive trichomes on the underside of a desert stingbush leaf (Credit: Rosemary Glos and Carol Flegler)🔬 Read it here👇️ buff.ly/mKHVK2p 🧵1/2 🧪🌍️

🚨Deadline extension!🚨 💡 You now have until the 8th of March to apply to join us as an Associate Editor! 🔎Find out more and apply here 👉️https://buff.ly/cIwdUMx 🧪🌍️

📣Apply to join us an Associate Editor!📣 We are seeking editors with expertise in: 🌱Below-ground processes 🔥Fire ecology 🐦️Animal ecophysiology 🌊Marine and freshwater ecology 🐝Pollination networks And more! See here for more info👇️ buff.ly/MzIXj6U 🧪🌍️

🌹Our February Issue is out now!🌹 📙On the cover: A common toad. Like many other amphibian species, common toads are nocturnal and therefore particularly exposed to nocturnal light pollution (Credit: Louise Cheynel) Read it here👇️ buff.ly/eQUTFzN 🧪🌍 🧵1/2

📆Our first issue of 2026 is out now!📆 📙On the cover: Red harvester ants at their nest entrance. Photo by Katie Dektar🐜 Read it here👇 buff.ly/kvF6jsS 🧪🌍

📰Published📰Subsurface leaf and root litter enhance soil carbon formation compared to surface litter🍃 buff.ly/gsvSLTP 🧪🌍

🤔Sorting out your schedule for the #BES2025 Annual Meeting? Interested in becoming an Associate Editor? 💡Join editors from across the @britishecologicalsociety.org journals for a workshop covering the ins-and-outs of peer review and what it takes to work effectively as an editor! 🧪🌍

You may be able to publish your paper in Functional Ecology and our other open access journals at no cost! Find out more about resources like funding, waivers and agreements – including our own BES waivers – that cover processing and publishing fees buff.ly/OsBvjdf 🧪🌍

❄️December issue out now!❄️ 📙On the cover: A female Weddell seal rests on the sea ice. Since she skipped having a pup this year, she doesn’t have to expend energy caring for offspring - leaving her with more time to enjoy a nice snow pillow! Credit: Amy Kirkham🦭 Read it here👇 buff.ly/b29bCGX 🧪🌍

🚨New blog series!🚨 📖We're pleased to launch 'Cover Stories', a new blog series which aims to showcase some of the amazing images we’ve had on the Functional Ecology cover over the years, and to get to know the people behind them. 👀Keep an eye on our blog site for posts from next week! 🧪🌍

🔊Podcast out now!🔊 🎧Author Fernando Gonçalves discusses how pollen protein and amino acid composition influence year-round and seasonal bat–flower interaction networks🦇 Listen here👇 🟧https://buff.ly/VlEZokf 🧪🌍

💡This issue features our 'Causes and Consequences of Phenotypic Plasticity’ special feature, which identifies exciting research themes on the eco-evolutionary causes and consequences of phenotypic plasticity and synthesizes our understanding of phenotypic plasticity and its ecology🔍 🧪🌍 🧵2/2

🎆Our November issue is out now!🎆 📙On the cover: A female American alligator guards her nest. Within the nest, developing embryos respond to temperature fluctuations, which will determine if they develop as males or females. Photo credit: Benjamin Parrott🐊 Read it here👇 buff.ly/NrKXKtO 🧵1/2 🧪🌍

🤝 NEW Meet the Editor: Eric Riddell ✍️Associate Editor Eric Riddell shares his experiences in #ecophysiology, insights into the #editor role and top tips for early career #researchers💡 @ecophysiology.bsky.social Read it here ➡️ buff.ly/jmnhuR5

👁️This issue features articles from the our 'Visual ecology in challenging environments' Special feature, which aims to target the central question of how visual sensory systems cope in extreme and dynamic environments 🧵2/3 🧪🌍

🎃Our October issue is out now!🎃 📙On the cover: The Threadfin dragonfish, a deep-sea hunter from the twilight zone, mastering vision and survival through bioluminescence in near-total darkness. Photo by Zuzana Musilova👀 Read it here👇 buff.ly/z5AYxZQ 🧵1/3 🧪🌍