An interesting paper was published recently in the journal in volume 100:5 titled “Pollination mode predicts phenological response to climate change in terrestrial orchids: a case study from central Europe“. Read the abstract here. The problem they addressed essentially was asking what traits may predict phenological response to climate change. They studied a set of about…
UPDATE: You can listen/download the interview with Amber over at iTunes. Get it here, or search for “Journal of Ecology” in the iTunes store. Listen to Journal of Ecology’s first podcast NOW! In this podcast blog editor Scott Chamberlain interviews Amber Budden from DataONE. This interview took place at ESA 2012. As always let us…
Mark St. John and company have a paper in the Journal in volume 100:5 titled “Loss of a dominant nitrogen-fixing shrub in primary succession: consequences for plant and below-ground communities”. Read the abstract here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a few photos. Many ecosystems throughout the world are gaining some species and…
Issue 5 has now been published online. Associate Editor Sedonia Sipes has written a commentary about our current Editor’s Choice by Greve et al. For even more information about this paper watch Scott’s interview with Michelle Greve right here on the blog! Editor’s Choice 100:5 It is always exciting to read a study that exemplifies…
Altmetrics are catching a head of steam in science, but are still not widely used. What are they? Jason Priem, who coined the term “altmetrics”, on almetrics.org defines almetrics as “the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship”. Find out more here and here and here. TotalImpact is a project…
A paper issue 100:4 in the Journal (Resource concentration by insects and implications for plant populations) by Andrea Stephens and Judith Myers explores how resource concentration by insects effects plants, using both modeling and empirical approaches. Read the abstract here. I caught up with Andrea a few weeks ago to do a video interview. Subscribe to our YouTube posts…
Sandra Chung (@sandramchung) and Jacquelyn Gill (@jacquelyngill) led a workshop at the Ecological of Society Meeting in Portland, OR on social media titled “Social Media for Collaboration, Outreach and Impact”. Sandra and Jacquelyn talked mostly about how to use Twitter, the de facto social media tool these days. Here are the slides from their talk. There…
A Data Sharing workshop was held at the 2012 Ecological Societ of America Meeting in Portland, Oregon. The workshop was run by folks from NEON (Wendy Gram), DataONE (Carly Strasser), and NCEAS (Stephanie Hampton). See the abstract here. The workshop started off with statements from Joshua Tewksbury, Carly Strasser, and Cliff Duke. Joshua talked about…
Listening to presentations at ESA 2012, more so than at most other meetings, provides a cornucopia of all that’s best in ecology. So much information and new material is thrown at you over the period of a few days that it’s difficult to assimilate and make sense of it all. But, sometimes a presentation, or…
I’m going to be conducting some interviews at the upcoming Ecological Society of America meeting in Portland. The interviews will be with: Jennifer Williams – on her paper in the Journal here Lauren Urgenson – on her paper in the Journal here Ian Pearse – on research presented in a paper in the Journal here Carol Thornber – on her paper in…
