The 5th Binational Ecology Meeting (#socecol) between the Argentinian Ecological Association and the Chilean Ecological Society is in full swing. Journal of Ecology Associate Editor Frida Piper is attending and so is Andrew Beckerman (@beckerhopper), Editor of Ecology and Evolution, who is also blowing the British Ecological Society’s horn from a beautifully minimalistic and hopefully highly effective…
Issue 101:6 of Journal of Ecology is now online. The Editor’s Choice paper from the final issue of 2013 is “Waiting for Gajah: an elephant mutualist’s contingency plan for an endangered megafaunal disperser” by Sekar & Sukumar. Read Associate Editor Michelle Leishman’s commentary on the paper below. Editor’s Choice 101:6 What are the flow-on effects to ecosystems…
Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, an assistant professor at the University of Maine, has a paper out in the journal titled Linking abundances of the dung fungus Sporormiella to the density of bison: implications for assessing grazing by megaherbivores in palaeorecords. I caught up with Dr. Gill at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Minneapolis, MN, USA to chat…
Haldre Rogers organized a session at the recent Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in August titled What Is The Fate Of a Forest Without Vertebrate Frugivores? Merging Case Studies With Theory. You can read the abstract for the session here. We caught up with Haldre at ESA to chat, and the following is our discussion.
It is hard to believe that INTECOL was almost two months ago now! Back in August Journal of Ecology sponsored a symposium at #INT13 entitled “The tree of life in ecosystems: evolution of plant effects on carbon and nutrient cycling”. The symposium was organised by Journal of Ecology Associate Editors Hans Cornelissen and Will Cornwell…
Membership to the British Ecological Society If you become a member of the British Ecological Society you can get online access to the BES’ cohort of journals for £15 per year. You can also subscribe to Journal of Ecology in print for £30 per year. Journal of Ecology was the first publication to be launched…
Andrew Trant gave a talk recently at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Minneapolis, MN, USA titled Ecological factors, not climate warming, explain variability in treeline patterns. Read the talk abstract here. Andrew is a postdoc at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC, Canada. We caught up with Andrew at the ESA meeting to…
Allison Louthan et al. have a paper out in the journal titled Climatic stress mediates the impacts of herbivory on plant population structure and components of individual fitness. Read their paper here. We caught up with Allison recently to chat about her research.
Journal of Ecology is pleased to announce that the Editor’s Choice paper for issue 101:5 is “Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests” by Chisholm et al. Editor’s Choice 101:5 The argument for biodiversity conservation is increasingly being framed in terms of maintaining ecosystem functions and services. However, just how important…
INTECOL 2013 and the BES Centenary celebrations are over, but for me the event hosted in the old docklands area of east London will be remembered for a long time. Remembered for what? It was my pleasure to listen to many excellent talks ranging from detailed presentations of narrowly focused research, to the wide ranging…
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