This volume of Field Studies in Ecology presents work that was completed during two Field Studies in Functional Ecology courses: December 2021 at Charlotte Pass, NSW in Kosciuszko National Park in the Australian Alps; and July 2022 in the Wet Tropics of Queensland where the course was split between the Daintree Rainforest Observatory in Cape Tribulation and Lake Eacham on the Atherton Tablelands. Students were undergraduates at the time the experiments were conducted.

This issue was edited by student-guest editors Pia Cunningham, Madeleine Bessel-Koprek, Kate Farkas, Grace Findlay and Zachary Trafford.