Journal of Ecology aims to bring important ecological work to its wide international audience. It publishes not just strong primary research studies that advance our understanding of ecological principles, but also Review articles that promote discussion and offer new ideas and directions in plant ecology. Our Reviews aim to be more than just a summary…
We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 Harper Prize is Karina Guo! The Harper Prize is awarded annually for the best paper published in the journal by an early career researcher. ‘Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny and leaf area in eucalypts through a 50-fold expansion of leaf trait datasets’ Karina Guo, William K. Cornwell, Jason…
The Harper Prize is awarded annually by the British Ecological Society for the best paper in Journal of Ecology by an early career author. We are pleased to present the shortlisted papers for the 2024 award, published in Volume 112: Daiki Takahashi: Deer grazing drove an assemblage-level evolution of plant dwarfism in an insular system Eugénie Mas: Drought effects in Mediterranean forests…
From February 2025, we encourage authors to submit a Reproducible Research Document, along with their submission, which will help editors, reviewers, and readers to understand how the authors processed their data to reach their outcomes. You can read more about this in our Editorial on the subject here. Below, you can find tutorials for how…
Ashley Bang, from the University of Oxford, won the Journal of Ecology Best Poster Award at the 2024 European Congress of Conservation Biology. In this blog post, Ashley, discusses her thesis: Opportunities to balance urbanization, climate change, and nature conservation policy agendas via nature-based solutions: A case study of Hong Kong. In light of the…
Are you an early career researcher from the Global South, looking to gain editorial experience? We’re welcoming applications for our newly launched Associate Editor mentoring program! 🔎 What the role involves Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to join the Journal of Ecology Editorial Board for 2 years. This voluntary position aims to develop…
We’re pleased to introduce our new Blog Editor! Curtis Lubbe joins the team to help manage the Journal of Ecology blog and publish author’s stories behind their research. Find out a bit about Curtis below: Name: F. Curtis LubbeLocation: Třeboň, Czech RepublicKeywords: belowground storage organs, drought, functional ecology, nonstructural carbohydrates, overwintering, storage Tell us a bit…
The Harper Prize is awarded annually by the British Ecological Society for the best paper in Journal of Ecology by an early career author. We are pleased to present the shortlisted papers for the 2023 award (published in Volume 111): ⭐️ Chenhui Chang: Reciprocal bark exchange helps to disentangle tree species-dependent bark and wood trait effects on invertebrate diversity⭐️ Yikang Cheng: Divergent…
We’re delighted to announce that Dr Pierre Mariotte and Dr Amy Iler have recently been appointed as new Senior Editors for Journal of Ecology. Amy has been an Associate Editor with the journal since 2015 and joins the Senior Editor team on a fixed-term maternity cover contract, and Pierre has been an Associate Editor since…
We’d love to feature your art on the Journal of Ecology Blog: https://jecologyblog.com/ We are looking to feature artwork and artistic engagement with plants, fungi, algae and aquatic or terrestrial ecosystems. This might be a sketch, photograph, sculpture, fashion, AI, comic book, acrylics, watercolour, oils on canvas etc. Please send a name, between 1…
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