Tuesday 5th December is World Soil Day 2017 and Ellen Fry, Secretary of the Special Interest Group Plant, Soils, Ecosystems (SIG PSE) of the British Ecological Society, has kindly agreed to share some thoughts about soil. She also gives some information about where to meet the PSE group at next week’s Ecology Across Borders meeting (Follow the…
This week has been EcoTAS 2017, the joint conference of the Ecological Society of Australia and the New Zealand Ecological Society. This year it was held in Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Australia, with a theme of ‘putting ecology to work’ in an effort to explore how ecological science can contribute to the economy,…
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For Peer Review week, the BES Publications Team are discussing about various aspects of peer review, and how we make the process more transparent. Yesterday, methods.blog launched their new Peer Reviewer Mentoring Scheme, but the Publications Team have a number of other ways of opening up peer review and helping people get…
As advertised in a previous blog post, the international conference of ecology INTECOL 2017 was held last week in Beijing, China. This year’s conference theme was Ecology and Civilization in a Changing World. Marc Cadotte, Senior Editor of Journal of Applied Ecology, attended the conference and wrote a nice blog post for the EEB and Flow blog, in which…
This year’s International Congress of Ecology (INTECOL 2017) is held in Beijing, China and is happening this week (August 20-25, 2017). The conference theme is Ecology and Civilization in a Changing World. We will get more information and feedback from the conference in few days but in the meantime, let’s talk a bit about China…
The more compelling talks I’ve seen at #ESA2017 are the ones that have left me with more questions than answers. Reflecting on this, I think that the role of conferences in ecology is switching from advertising your work to creating opportunities for open conversations. With the rise of Twitter, blogs and preprints, advertising your new results…
I write this as the week-long 2017 meeting of the Ecological Society of America wraps up in Portland, Oregon. I’m a veteran of many ESA meetings; my first was in 1977, giving me a long-term perspective indeed on what has changed, and what has been stable, in the structure and human dimensions of the annual…
Journal of Ecology was well represented at the 2017 annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America with Senior Managing Editor Andrea Baier on the BES stand in the convention hall, and several Associate Editors joining me for a board meeting and dinner, in prowling the halls, networking, and attending and giving presentations. I survived…
A trait is any aspect of an organism that defines it with respect to a concept. A trait may be color, when examining heat absorption; accent, in the case of humans when attempting to approximate nationality; specific leaf area (i.e., area to dry mass ratio of a leaf) when interested in investment in photosynthetic machinery…
Journal of Ecology Executive Editor David Gibson, Associate Editor Lorena Gómez-Aparicio, and Methods in Ecology and Evolution Senior Editor Bob O’Hara recently attended a workshop “The hierarchy-of-hypotheses approach: Exploring its potential for structuring and analyzing theory, research and evidence across disciplines” August 19-21, in Hannover, Germany. Below they tell us more about this workshop. Set…
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