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Sandra Lavorel's Special Feature on ecosystem services is available to access, for free, online via http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jec.2012.101.issue-1/issuetoc. Music credit: [Cirus Marcus](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/CIRCUSMARCUS/) - (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/CIRCUSMARCUS/Aux_puces/Circus_Marcus_-_Aux_puces_n5)

The paper by Šímová, Li & Storch can be accessed for free at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12011/abstract.

Music credit: [Plays Guitar](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/gillicuddy/Plays_Guitar/) to [Gillicuddy](http://www.gillicuddy.net/)

Music credit: + artist: James Beaudreau + song: Parlor City + link: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/James_Beaudreau/Fresh_Twigs_WBR_02/9_Parlor_City

Coping with stress: some species survive by breaking the rules, as Lanna Desantis explains to Robbie Wilson as part of the Special Feature: The Ecology of Stress For more information, read the lay summary (http://bit.ly/VQU0Xx) and article (http://bit.ly/14qsdBq)

In the latest Journal of Ecology podcast, Scott Chamberlain interviews Peter Jørgensen of INNGE (http://www.innge.net/). Music credit: Artist: Pajaro (https://soundcloud.com/budabeats/pajaro-santa-leone) Song: "Santa Leone" (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pajaro/Best_Of_Breitband_Vol4/06_pajaro_-_santa_leone_1357)

Music credit: "Instrumental" (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Howie_Mitchell__Charlotte_Williams_1108/Howie__Charlotte_Williams_11-14-58/Track_5-InstrGuitarAndDulcDuet) by "Howie Mitchell and Charlotte Williams" (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Howie_Mitchell__Charlotte_Williams_1108/)

The long necked sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth – but why were they so large? One possibility is that it somehow involved the nature of the plant food they eat, as David Wilkinson (co-author of the paper "High C:N ratio (not low-energy content) of vegetation may have driven gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs and perhaps omnivory and/or endothermy in their juveniles." David M Wilkinson & Graeme D Ruxton 2012) explains in this interview with Robbie Wilson. Wilkinson, D. M., Ruxton, G. D. (2012), High C/N ratio (not low-energy content) of vegetation may have driven gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs and perhaps omnivory and/or endothermy in their juveniles. Functional Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12033 http://www.functionalecology.org/view/0/summaries.html#wilkinson http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12033/abstract

Alan Knapp interviews Brad Butterfield about his paper "A functional-comparative approach to facilitation between and its context-dependence", part of an upcoming Special Feature on Mechanisms of Plant Competition, and the importance of taking a trait-based approach to plant facilitation. A great deal of research has been conducted on the mechanisms and outcomes of plant competition, what traits help plants compete, but less well understood is how such traits affect the outcome of positive interactions among plants. Butterfield, B. J., Callaway, R. M. (2012), A functional comparative approach to facilitation and its context dependence. Functional Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12019 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12019/abstract

Read the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00077.x/abstract

Read the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00087.x/abstract

Jason Knouft, from Saint Louis University, Missouri, talks to Elizabeth Horne about his recently published paper, "Using fine-scale GIS data to assess the relationship between intra-annual environmental niche variability and population density in a local stream fish assemblage". Jason establishes the need for broad-scale geographic considerations of ecological issues, and explains how the application of these methods on a finer scale can yield new and valuable insights into the exploitation of ecological niches by local populations, and such populations’ likely reactions to new seasonal and environmental stresses. Read the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00076.x/full

Freya Harrison, University of Oxford, UK talks with Graziella Iossa about her review on getting started with meta-analysis. Freya explains that meta-analysis is a statistically robust way of putting together results from different studies that test the same hypothesis. She provides in this review a 'road map' to the topic so that beginners can get a head start on meta-analysis. Meta-analysis hopefully will be more used as a result in the fields of ecology and evolution. Read the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00056.x/full