Interview with Harper Prize winner: Simon Doxford

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.…

Better quality podcasts

We have been doing interviews for the past 1.5 yrs or so, and are now hosted on Soundcloud here. I have not been trained in doing interviews and podcasting, so of course there is some learning to do. One simple thing that I was able to fix thanks to one of the people I interviewed,…

Interview with James Rosindell

In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview James Rosindell, of Imperial College London, about OneZoom. Visit OneZoom here: www.onezoom.org. I spoke with James at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Birmingham, UK in December, 2012. This interview took place in person at the metting on 19 December, 2012. A few months have passed and…

Interview with Michael Hutchings

In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Michael Hutchings, who recently stepped down from the Executive Editor position at the Journal of Ecology. I spoke with Mike at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Birmingham, UK in December, 2012. This interview took place in person at the metting on 17 December, 2012. Follow this link to the BES podcast…

Interview with Ross Mounce on open data and open access

In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Ross Mounce, of the University of Bath, on open data and open access. Ross is an advocate for open data and open access, and a Panton Fellow with the Open Knowledge Foundation, in which he promotes open data and access.  This interview took place in person in London on…

Interview with Rebecca Atkinson on the growth-survival trade-off in plants

In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Rebecca Atkinson, of the University of Sheffield, on her research presented at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Birmingham, UK in December, 2012. This interview took place in person at the metting on 20 December, 2012. Follow this link to the BES podcast series on Souncloud, or use the Soundcloud widget…

Interview with Franciska De Vries on landscape-scale variation in soil microbial communities

In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Franciska De Vries, of Lancaster University, on her research presented at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Birmingham, UK in December, 2012. This interview took place in person at the metting on 19 December, 2012.  Find out more about Franciska at her website here.  Franciska is also an  Associate Editor at…