The prize winners for best papers across the BES journals have been announced. See the announcement here. The Harper Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Ecology has been awarded to Simon Doxford for his paper with Rob Freckleton titled Changes in the large-scale distribution of plants: extinction, colonisation and the effects of climate. Read their paper here.…
Mark is interested in a wide range of ecological and evolutionary problems. He uses a range of approaches from simple analytical models, through to evolutionary stable strategy models for the evolution of plant traits and more complex structured models, in particular integral projection models. He is also interested in statistical estimation problems related to the…
Roses are red (sometimes), the Journal cover is blue. What better way to spend st Valentine’s than reading Issue 2? The new issue is now online and you can read it here> This is the first Journal issue to include a new online feature providing direct links to any extra articles about the paper.
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.
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