Journal of Ecology & Fascination of Plants Day 2013 The Editors of the Journal of Ecology are pleased to honour Fascination of Plants Day 2013 by highlighting the most recent accounts in our Biological Flora of the British Isles series. The series provides a fascinating insight into both common and endangered plant species. The accounts have…
The prize winners for best papers across the BES journals have been announced. See the announcement here. The Harper Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Ecology has been awarded to Simon Doxford for his paper with Rob Freckleton titled Changes in the large-scale distribution of plants: extinction, colonisation and the effects of climate. Read their paper here.…
Pierre Mariotte and colleagues have a paper in the Journal in vol 101:3 titled Subordinate plant species enhance community resistance against drought in semi-natural grasslands. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo.
We have been doing interviews for the past 1.5 yrs or so, and are now hosted on Soundcloud here. I have not been trained in doing interviews and podcasting, so of course there is some learning to do. One simple thing that I was able to fix thanks to one of the people I interviewed,…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview James Rosindell, of Imperial College London, about OneZoom. Visit OneZoom here: www.onezoom.org. I spoke with James at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Birmingham, UK in December, 2012. This interview took place in person at the metting on 19 December, 2012. A few months have passed and…
The next issue of Journal of Ecology will be published online soon. We are really pleased to announce that the Editor’s Choice article from issue 101:3 is “Specialist species of wood-inhabiting fungi struggle while generalists thrive in fragmented boreal forests” by Nordén et al. Read a commentary on the paper below, written by Journal of Ecology Associate Editor…
The following is a guest post written by Santiago Soliveres. Once seen as anomalies, positive (facilitative) interactions among plants and their importance for ecosystem structure and functioning are now fully recognized (see Brooker et al. 2008 for a review). Research focused on facilitation has received increasing attention from the most important ecological and interdisciplinary journals…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Michael Hutchings, who recently stepped down from the Executive Editor position at the Journal of Ecology. I spoke with Mike at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Birmingham, UK in December, 2012. This interview took place in person at the metting on 17 December, 2012. Follow this link to the BES podcast…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Ross Mounce, of the University of Bath, on open data and open access. Ross is an advocate for open data and open access, and a Panton Fellow with the Open Knowledge Foundation, in which he promotes open data and access. This interview took place in person in London on…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Rebecca Atkinson, of the University of Sheffield, on her research presented at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Birmingham, UK in December, 2012. This interview took place in person at the metting on 20 December, 2012. Follow this link to the BES podcast series on Souncloud, or use the Soundcloud widget…
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