Fernando Maestre, Andrea Castillo-Monroy, Matthew Bowker, and Raul Ochoa-Húeso have a paper in Early View in the Journal titled “Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern“. Fernando has written a nice lay summary of the research presented in the paper, which we provide below.
A paper in Early View at the Journal (“Significance and extent of secondary seed dispersal by predatory birds on oceanic islands: the case of the Canary archipelago”) by David Padilla, Aarón González-Castro, and Manuel Nogales, explores secondary dispersal on the Canary Islands. Read the paper here. I caught up with David recently to do our…
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.
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…
As we move into the Journal of Ecology’s Centenary year, it seems like an excellent time to look back at articles in the Journal archives to find out what impact they have had on plant ecologists working in the field today. Journal Editor, David Gibson, kicks off the first post for our “Ecological Inspirations”…
We receive many great photos from authors which, for one reason or another, are not selected for the journal cover (plus, we can only choose one photo for each issue!). The blog gives us an opportunity to feature these author’s photos together with a lay summary. Here are a couple of images from papers recently…
Happy holidays to everyone. We would like to give a short preview of some of our upcoming posts once we return from the holiday.
Contributing Authors: Mike Hutchings, Scott Chamberlain As a part of the celebrations surrounding publication of its Centenary Volume, the Journal of Ecology – the world’s first-established ecological journal – is starting a blog. The blog will enhance the value of the Journal to its authors and readers by creating a new forum for discussion…
The Journal of Ecology is pleased to announce the launch of an official blog to celebrate the publication of the Centenary Volume in 2012. The blog will be launched in December to coincide with the online publication of Volume 100 Issue 1. Sign up to follow the blog now and be among the first to…
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