Updated Journal Aims and Scope

Following some excellent feedback and comments at our most recent BES Editor’s Strategy Day (see photo below), we have updated the wording of our journal scope. The updated scope reads: Journal of Ecology publishes original articles on all aspects of the ecology of plants (including algae), in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. We will publish…

New Insights into Size Asymmetry of Resource Competition

Editor’s note A recently published paper in Journal of Ecology, entitled Size asymmetry of resource competition and the structure of plant communities by DeMalach et al. 2016, garnered a lot of excitement during the review process. Associate Editor James F Cahill kindly agreed to share and comment the novel findings of this paper below. Pierre…

Editor’s Choice 104:3

Issue 104:3 is now online and the Editor’s Choice paper from this issue is Bioclimatic envelope models predict a decrease in tropical forest carbon stocks with climate change in Madagascar by Vieilledent et al. Associate Editor Emily Lines has written a post about the paper below. Editor’s Choice 104:3 Whether or not forest carbon stores will…

Demography Behind the Population

By Rob Salguero-Gómez1,2,3,4 & Alden Griffith5 1 Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN. UK. 2 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences, Queensland 4072, Australia. 3 Evolutionary Biodemography Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.…