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Roy Turkington, Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Province, China. Photo: L Fraser Plant ecology is de facto the study of plants—how plants establish, grow, compete, persist, defend themselves, and reproduce within the environments in which they are found. Considering the fact that all plants have a short list of basic requirements— sunlight, nutrients, and water—it is amazing that so many words are written, papers published, so many books bound, and studies conducted on the subject, and with no end in sight. However, perhaps not so surprising given that sunlight can be partially shaded and blocked (Givnish 1988), the stoichiometry of nutrients is multi-dimensional (Güsewell 2004), water availability is variable in time and space (Weltzin et al. 2003), and plants have adapted in multiple ways to defend themselves (Stamp 2003). In other words, even with so few essential elements, the life of a plant is complex and rich (Harper 1967). It takes a keen and passionate mind to disentangle the complexity of plant ecology and to focus on clearly defined and testable questions. Moreover, it takes a very special person to share that passion and pass along those skills to the next generation. Professor Roy Turkington embodies these characteristics, and in this special issue we pay tribute to Roy and his legacy to the science of plant ecology. Roy Turkington, a Northern Irishman, began his academic career at the New University of Ulster in Coleraine where he received his BSc in 1972, followed by a PhD in 1975 under the supervision of Professor John Harper at Bangor University. John Harper, an eminent plant ecologist, had a lifelong influence on L. H. Fraser (&) Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada e-mail: lfraser@tru.ca

Roy Turkington and his legacy to the science of plant ecology