I always attend the Ecological Society of America’s Annual Meeting. The last ESA I missed was the 1992 Hawaii meeting (“the meeting without graduate students”) because I was in the middle of moving from Florida to Illinois with a pregnant wife (“you are not leaving for Hawaii right now!”). I’ve not moved jobs since then…
From 26 – 30 June 2013 the 56th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science is taking place in Tartu, Estonia. A number of members of the Journal of Ecology Editorial Board are speaking at the meeting. Please find summaries of talks by four of our Associate Editors below. Ray Callaway Positive interactions…
Verena Cordlandwehr et al. have a paper out in the journal (vol 101, issue 3, pp. 662-70) titled Do plant traits retrieved from a database accurately predict on-site measurements? Read their paper here. We caught up with Verena recently to chat about her research. Note: Apologies in advance for the relatively poor sound quality – I will work in…
Dr. Phoebe Zarnetske and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in Early View titled Indirect effects and facilitation among native and non-native species promote invasion success along an environmental stress gradient. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper some great photos of the study site.
Dr. Hillary Young and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in Early View titled Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper, and some great photos in the field during their study. Anthropogenic impact is leading…
We are pleased to announce that the Editor’s Choice paper from the next issue of Journal of Ecology is “Recolonizing wolves trigger a trophic cascade in Wisconsin (USA)” by Callan et al. Read the commentary below written by Journal of Ecology Associate Editor Charles Canham. Editor’s Choice 101:4 While loss of top predators is a…
Dr. Rodríguez-Gironés and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in Early View titled Possible role of weaver ants, Oecophylla smaragdina, in shaping plant-pollinator interactions in SE Asia. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and some great photos of weaver ants and their interactions with pollinators on flowers. Predators can alter…
Nicolas Gross et al. have a paper out in the journal (vol 101, issue 3, pp. 637-49) titled Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands. Read their paper here. We caught up with Nicolas recently to chat about his research.
Tracking the uptake of primary articles in the scientific literature via the social media is now widely accepted as a valid measure of the value of our work. In an earlier blog post we presented some data on article level metrics (ALMs: altmetrics) of Journal of Ecology articles from 2012. We are pleased that readers…
A special feature was recently published in the journal on whole-plant senescence. Go here to read the papers. I caught up with two of the three editors of that special feature, Rob Salugero-Gomez and Richard Shefferson, to talk about plant senescence.
jecologyblog.com 