The Journal of Ecology editors are delighted to announce that Sandra Lavorel is our Eminent Ecologist for 2017. In recognition of her work, we have asked Sandra to select 10 of her most influential Journal of Ecology papers to make up a special virtual issue. Sandra has written a series of blog posts about her work:…
The Journal of Ecology editors are delighted to announce that Sandra Lavorel is our Eminent Ecologist for 2017. In recognition of her work, we have asked Sandra to select 10 of her most influential Journal of Ecology papers to make up a special virtual issue. Sandra has written a series of blog posts about her work:…
The Journal of Ecology editors are delighted to announce that Sandra Lavorel is our Eminent Ecologist for 2017. In recognition of her work, we have asked Sandra to select 10 of her most influential Journal of Ecology papers to make up a special virtual issue. Sandra has written a series of blog posts about her work:…
Volume 105 Issue 6 of Journal of Ecology is now online! The November 2017 issue contains a special feature titled ‘Long-term dynamics and impacts of plant invasions’ which is guest edited by Carla D’Antonio and Luke Flory. Luke and Carla have got together a great selection of papers for this special feature including studies on…
The Editor’s Choice paper for the final issue of 2018 is titled Manipulating two olfactory cues causes a biological control beetle to shift to non-target plant species by Li et al. Professor Stephen Bonser, who handled the paper as an Associate Editor, gives some thoughts on the paper… Phytophagous insects are potentially useful biocontrol agents. Insect…
Dr Richard Jefferson is the author of our latest Biological Flora of the British Isles article. Below he tells us more about his paper on saw-wort which was published in volume 105, issue 5 of Journal of Ecology… Saw-wort (Serratula tinctoria) is a herbaceous perennial of the daisy family (Asteraceae) that occurs across much of…
It is our pleasure to announce that Journal of Ecology author Severin Irl (University of Bayreuth) has been awarded the Eduard Strasburger Award for his 2015 paper; Climate vs. topography – spatial patterns of plant species diversity and endemism on a high-elevation island. The prize is awarded every 2 years by the German Botanical Society…
How do mixing effects change depending on the species composition of a forest stand? And is it true that trees are more likely to positively complement each other when environmental conditions are harsher? In a new Journal of Ecology study, scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) used data from…
Along with many other organisations and individuals all over the world, the BES has been celebrating Peer Review Week. We recognise that peer review underpins the high quality work published by BES journals and has done for over 100 years. For this post we asked our Editorial boards for their thoughts on the importance of…
Originally posted on Functional Ecologists:
For Peer Review week, the BES Publications Team are discussing about various aspects of peer review, and how we make the process more transparent. Yesterday, methods.blog launched their new Peer Reviewer Mentoring Scheme, but the Publications Team have a number of other ways of opening up peer review and helping people get…
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