Mechanical Ecology: Taking Biomechanics to the Field SPECIAL ISSUE Edited by Ulrike Bauer and Simon Poppinga Image courtesy of Ulrike Bauer Mechanical Ecology: Taking Biomechanics to the Field echanical ecology is an macrophytes Wilfried Konrad and Anita Owned by Published by M interdisciplinary research Anne-Kristin Lenz, Ulrike Rothnebelsick The physics of drop field at the intersection of Bauer, and Graeme Ruxton An impact processes and how leaves biomechanics and organismal ecological perspective on water can withstand them ecology. It has rapidly gained shedding from leaves momentum over the past Research articles Invitation to submit two decades. By focusing on Christiano Gallep and Daniel Jana Dlouha, Pauline Défossez, biomechanical adaptations and Robert What if the gravimetric We welcome other contribu- Hans-Joel Dongmo, François interactions between organisms tide could trigger life cycles? tions to this special issue. If Ningre, Meriem Fournier, and and their environment, Heike Beismann Mechanics of you would like to submit a pa- Thiéry Constant Mechanical mechanical ecology complements fruit opening of invasive Hakea per (either research or review), vulnerability of forest trees after the better known fields of species in Southern Europe please email a title and brief thinning: securing stems or roots? chemical and behavioural Nicholas Burnett and Brian Gaylord outline for the consideration ecology. This special issue gives Flow, forces and form: methods Max Langer, Elena Hegge, of the editors. All papers are an overview over the recent and frameworks for in situ studies Thomas Speck, and Olga Speck peer reviewed to the usual advances in the field and presents of macroalgal biomechanics Responses of plant leaves of Pilea standards and must fit within a number of exemplary original peperomioides to wind loads and/ Mario Vallejo-Marin Why and the scope of the journal. The research papers on the topic. or contact stimuli how do bees buzz deadline for submissions is July 2021 • Darwin Review Arildo Souza Dias Gas inside Rosario Sierra-de Grado et al. wood and its implications to Adaptive implications of tree Karl Joseph Niklas and Frank plant biomechanics stem postural control Telewski Environmental- Tim Higham et al. Plants as biomechanical reciprocities and Frederike Klimm, Stefanie Schmier, Contact JXB Editorial Office, c/o locomotor surfaces: how animals the evolution of plant material Holger F. Bohn, Svenja Kleiser, North Campus Academic Por- attach to, and move on, branches, properties Marc Thielen and Thomas Speck ters, County College, Lancaster leaves and stems Biomechanics of tendrils and Reviews University, LA1 4YE, United Curt Holder and Leal Lauderbaugh adhesive pads of the climbing Kingdom • +44 (0)1524 592715 passionflower Passiflora discophora Mimi A.R. Koehl Ecological The biomechanics of leaf • [email protected] • @ biomechanics of marine oscillations during rainfall events JXBot • academic.oup.com/jxb.