Volume 104, Issue 6
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Editor’s Choice 104:5
The Editor’s Choice paper for Issue 104:5 is titled ‘On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta-analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted’ and was written by a team from the Department of Biological Sciences of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Many thanks to authors Anaïs Gibert, Daniel Falster and Mark Westoby for providing some…
Welcome to our new Associate Editors
Journal of Ecology is thrilled to welcome four new Associate Editors. Jane Catford (University of Southampton, UK), Han Chen (Lakehead University, Canada), Emily Farrer (Tulane University, USA) and Julieta Rosell (UNAM, Mexico) all join the Editorial Board and you can find out more about them below. Jane Catford Jane is based at the University of…
What do reviewers want?
Originally posted on Animal Ecology in Focus:
Last year’s Peer Review Week proved to be a great success in raising awareness and starting discussions about peer review. This year, it’s back and the focus is on recognition for review. There have been lots of surveys looking at perceptions of peer review. These surveys agree that…
Trees may acclimate to drought, but not to warming, in semi-arid systems
Charlotte Grossiord et al. have an interesting paper recently published online in Journal of Ecology, entitled ‘Precipitation, not air temperature, drives functional responses of trees in semi-arid ecosystems‘. The scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory provide evidences that trees in semi-arid systems may acclimate to reduced precipitation but not to temperature rise. Charlotte kindly agreed to…
Peer review week: Encouraging collaborative peer review
Post from Managing Editor Emilie Aimé. Check out the methods.blog later in the week for some of the Methods in Ecology and Evolution Associate Editors’ perspective on collaborative peer review. It’s Peer Review Week 2016 and the BES journals are celebrating with a series of blog posts on how much we value our reviewers. Here at the…
Peer Review Week 2016 – Thank you to all our reviewers
As this week is Peer Review Week 2016, Journal of Ecology would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who has reviewed a paper for us. The event is organised by a number of different publishers and scientific organisations in order to celebrate the practice of peer review and the vital role it plays…
Root Ecology Makes the Olympics
In this last interview from the EcoSummit2016 conference, Gerlinde De Deyn talks about plant-soil feedbacks in agricultural systems, and how outcomes of fundamental research can be used to improve farming practices and move toward more sustainable food production. Gerlinde also talks about the importance of raising awareness about soil and to inform the public, farmers and policy…
The Soil and its Diversity of Organisms: Actor of a Sustainable Future?
As mentioned in a previous blog post, ‘Belowground Ecology’ was an important topic of the EcoSummit2016 congress that was held two weeks ago in Montpellier, France (Corum, Aug 28th – Sept 1st). During the conference, I had the chance to meet with many leading soil scientists and invited three of them to talk about soil – Richard…
Insights into the EcoSummit Congress 2016 on Ecological Sustainability – Engineering Change
The 5th International EcoSummit Congress, hosted by INRA and IRD, and organized by Elsevier, took place last week (Aug 28th – Sept 1st) in the Corum in Montpellier, France. I believe that everyone enjoy coming to the South of France for a conference, especially in Montpellier in summer. Indeed, the conference brought together around 1400 lucky…
