Note from Executive Editor: The following post is written by Journal of Ecology Associate Editor Caroline Brophy in response to an announcement in a psychology journal regarding the use of p-values. The Journal of Ecology will continue to judge the appropriateness of the statistics in submitted manuscripts on a case-by-case basis. When I saw that a journal was…
Last week quite a few members of Journal of Ecology’s Editorial team were in Lille for the joint BES/SFE Annual Meeting. It was a fantastic few days. Associate Editor Ignasi Bartomeus has written about his highlights below. #BESsfe Quick summary of the talks that surprised me most: Lots of Pollination biology talks: the most surprising…
The American ecological society has just finished its annual meeting in Sacramento, California, and the BES was well represented. For those of you who missed it, let me summarize my impressions. Sacramento has a gleaming modern core, surrounded by genteel Victorian suburbs, surrounded by millions of acres of dry billiard-table flat agricultural land. The population…
EcoTas13 – Auckland 24 – 29 November Going to EcoTas13 this year will be bitter-sweet for me, I am shortly to move from a land of abundant snakes to one where St. Patrick drastically reduced the herpetofaunal richness with one wave of his magic staff. So I’m going to make the most of this awesome concentration of…
V Reunión Binacional de Ecología, 3 – 6 November 2013 The V Reunión Binacional de Ecología was celebrated in Puerto Varas, Chile, and the meeting aimed to gather both Argentinean and Chilean ecologists. Like the previous meetings organized by the two ecological societies –the Sociedad de Ecología de Chile and the Asociación Argentina de Ecología-…
Membership to the British Ecological Society If you become a member of the British Ecological Society you can get online access to the BES’ cohort of journals for £15 per year. You can also subscribe to Journal of Ecology in print for £30 per year. Journal of Ecology was the first publication to be launched…
Just got back from my holiday. Two weeks on the Baltic island of Öland with its old cultural landscape, incredible “alvar” grasslands and brilliant birding. Talk about biodiversity! I dived into the INTECOL programme, with the aim of starting by trying to identify talks that I really don’t want to miss. I’ve picked out some…
I was recently asked by the executive board of Journal of Ecology to highlight presentations and other events that I am looking forward to at the INTECOL conference, taking place in London, August 18-23 (http://www.intecol2013.org). Well, I will start by admitting that I feel rather bad that I wasn’t able to attend the ESA(merica) this…
When Andrea Baier asked me whether I could write a blog post about my plans for the ESA this year, I initially thought ‘Oh no, another thing for my to-do list’. But then, the skies opened, angels started to sing, and it hit me with full strength – this would be my opportunity to, for…
Over the next few days we will be posting a number of ESA-related posts written by some of Journal of Ecology’s Associate Editors in a countdown to the conference. Glad to be back! I am pleased to say that my attendance at the annual meetings of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) closely rivals that…
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