Issue 102:2 of the Journal will be online very soon. The Editor’s Choice paper from this issue is “Probabilistic and spatially variable niches inferred from demography” by Diez et al. Editor’s Choice 102:2 Why do we find a species in some sites but not in others? Niche theory hypothesizes that a species’ distribution is governed by…
Earlier this month Journal of Ecology and the other BES journals introduced a new data archiving policy stating that all future articles accepted for publication will be published with the requirement that data used for the results will be made publicly accessible. This means that once a paper is accepted in one of the BES…
Frederic Holzwarth is an ecologist at Universität Leipzig in Germany – I caught up with him back in March last year to chat about his research published in the journal. The title was: Many ways to die – partitioning tree mortality dynamics in a near-natural mixed deciduous forest. You can read the abstract and paper here.
About a year ago, the British Ecological Society entered into partnership with Wiley’s cascade journal Ecology and Evolution. When we were approached about this enterprise, many of us agreed that cascading sounded like a great idea and the BES and a host of other ecological journals now contribute to this new journal. The remit of…
The Editor’s Choice paper from issue 102:1 of the Journal is The phenology–substrate-match hypothesis explains decomposition rates of evergreen and deciduous oak leaves by Pearse, Cobb & Karban. Read Associate Editor Rien Aerts’ commentary on the paper below. Editor’s Choice 102:1 Litter decomposition is the major pathway of energy and biomass transfer in most terrestrial ecosystems and…
This post represents the first entry of our Eminent Ecologist series. Read more blog posts from our Eminent Ecologists: http://bit.ly/eminentecologist Blog commentary by J.P. Grime on a set of papers (1965-2007) from the Journal of Ecology reproduced online in December 2013 Thank you, Editors, for this opportunity to reflect on the circumstances, motivating forces and memorable…
Ethan White is a macroecologist at Utah State University – I caught up with him at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in August to chat about his research, and a his talk titled Evaluating a general theory of macroecology using big data. You can read the abstract for his talk here. See also talks by members…
EcoTas13 – Auckland 24 – 29 November Going to EcoTas13 this year will be bitter-sweet for me, I am shortly to move from a land of abundant snakes to one where St. Patrick drastically reduced the herpetofaunal richness with one wave of his magic staff. So I’m going to make the most of this awesome concentration of…
The Journal of Ecology along with the other British Ecological Society journals will now allow submission of manuscripts that have been previously posted on recognized preprint archives such as arXiv and PeerJ PrePrints and the new bioRχiv. We still won’t publish work that’s already been published, you have to tell us where a manuscript has…
V Reunión Binacional de Ecología, 3 – 6 November 2013 The V Reunión Binacional de Ecología was celebrated in Puerto Varas, Chile, and the meeting aimed to gather both Argentinean and Chilean ecologists. Like the previous meetings organized by the two ecological societies –the Sociedad de Ecología de Chile and the Asociación Argentina de Ecología-…
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