Fernando Maestre, Andrea Castillo-Monroy, Matthew Bowker, and Raul Ochoa-Húeso have a paper in Early View in the Journal titled “Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern“. Fernando has written a nice lay summary of the research presented in the paper, which we provide below.
A paper in Early View at the Journal (“Significance and extent of secondary seed dispersal by predatory birds on oceanic islands: the case of the Canary archipelago”) by David Padilla, Aarón González-Castro, and Manuel Nogales, explores secondary dispersal on the Canary Islands. Read the paper here. I caught up with David recently to do our…
What factors are responsible for differences in the abundance of species? This question—perhaps the most fundamental in ecology, and of critical importance for conservation—was addressed by Ryan Phillips, Matthew Barrett, Kingsley Dixon and Steve Hopper in a recent paper in the Journal [1], for which Ryan (as lead author) was awarded the Harper Prize.
Mike Hutchings et al. published a paper in the recent issue of the Journal entitled “Tansley’s vision for Journal of Ecology, and a Centenary Celebration”. In the aforementioned paper they presented a table breaking down how papers were distributed across different fields of ecology over the past 100 years (or the first 100 volumes of…
We receive many great photos from authors which, for one reason or another, are not selected for the journal cover (plus, we can only choose one photo for each issue!). The blog gives us an opportunity to feature these author’s photos together with a lay summary. Here are a couple of images from papers recently…
Happy holidays to everyone. We would like to give a short preview of some of our upcoming posts once we return from the holiday.
Contributing Authors: Mike Hutchings, Scott Chamberlain As a part of the celebrations surrounding publication of its Centenary Volume, the Journal of Ecology – the world’s first-established ecological journal – is starting a blog. The blog will enhance the value of the Journal to its authors and readers by creating a new forum for discussion…
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