The following is a guest post written by Santiago Soliveres. Once seen as anomalies, positive (facilitative) interactions among plants and their importance for ecosystem structure and functioning are now fully recognized (see Brooker et al. 2008 for a review). Research focused on facilitation has received increasing attention from the most important ecological and interdisciplinary journals…
We are pleased to announce that the next Editor’s Choice will be The ancient forests of La Gomera, Canary Islands, and their sensitivity to environmental change by Nogué et al. This paper will be free to access when 101: 2 is published online. Editor’s Choice 101:2 While this Editor’s Choice “The ancient forests of La Gomera,…
Introducing – Amy Austin A quick note to introduce myself, Amy Austin, as I have just joined the clan at Journal of Ecology as an Editor starting in January. After having been invited to join as an Associate Editor for the Journal two years ago, I have to say that this group has been so…
As we move into the second century of publishing Journal of Ecology, it’s a good time to see how the Journal fared in its 100th year. With this in mind, we compared uptake of the 150 papers published in the Centenary volume 100 in 2012. To make it interesting, we look at citations as they…
The Journal of Ecology blog started in January this year. We sought to create a forum where we could highlight some of the most interesting work in the Journal of Ecology. Personally speaking, I wanted to do something different than the usual text based blog posts on published papers. Namely, I wanted to do something video or audio…
Altmetrics are catching a head of steam in science, but are still not widely used. What are they? Jason Priem, who coined the term “altmetrics”, on almetrics.org defines almetrics as “the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship”. Find out more here and here and here. TotalImpact is a project…
The Plant Population Ecology (PPE) section of the Ecological Society of America and Journal of Ecology are pleased to announce that a Plant Population Ecology Postdoctoral Excellence Award, sponsored by Journal of Ecology, will be presented at the ESA meeting in Portland this year (2012). This award will celebrate the most distinguished contribution to plant…
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…
Journal of Ecology was the world’s first ecological journal. It was established as the official publication of the newly formed British Ecological Society (BES) in 1913 under the leadership and guidance of the Society’s first President, Sir Arthur Tansley FRS. At its launch, Tansley identified two primary aims for the Journal, namely “to foster and…
Happy holidays to everyone. We would like to give a short preview of some of our upcoming posts once we return from the holiday.
