In celebration of Open Access week 2014 each of the British Ecological Society’s journals, including Journal of Ecology, have each published a Virtual Issue of recently published OA papers. Click on the covers below to access each journal’s Virtual Issue. All of the papers included in the Virtual…
The search for symmetry has always intrigued researchers, whatever the field of their study. This is the case, in plant ecology, for the continuous challenge to get improved metrics for measuring plant-plant interaction effects. Plants exert both negative and positive influences on one another, and the balance between them may change depending on the level…
The American ecological society has just finished its annual meeting in Sacramento, California, and the BES was well represented. For those of you who missed it, let me summarize my impressions. Sacramento has a gleaming modern core, surrounded by genteel Victorian suburbs, surrounded by millions of acres of dry billiard-table flat agricultural land. The population…
OK—that’s corny, I realize. Right out of the DeSylva/Meyer song of the same name from the 1921 Broadway musical Bombo, starring Al Jolson. But it’s always uttered with a great deal of excitement by anyone who uses that expression, and this is no exception. Annual meetings of the Ecological Society of America are always exciting…
It’s always exciting to prepare for ESA. Here are some recommendations for people interested in biodiversity, global change, pollination, networks and more. As you can see, my interests tend to be wide and hence I tended to run a lot amongst sessions in previous years. My plan this year is to run less and attend…
This week lots of members of the Journal of Ecology Editorial Board are at ESA in Sacramento. See Executive Editor, David Gibson’s, earlier blog post about what he will be getting up to here. Don’t forget to visit the British Ecological Society’s stand either! A few members of the Editorial Board have written about their schedules…
It’s that time of the year again when ecologists from around the globe descend upon a convention center in North America for a week-long frenzy of eco-geeking. I missed last year’s bash in Minneapolis because I chose to wait a couple of weeks and attend the British Ecological Society’s Centenary celebration in London (see why here). But,…
The Editors of Journal of Ecology are pleased and excited to present eight papers as part of the BES’ ‘Ecology in China’ Virtual Issue. Papers from each of the five BES journals are represented in this Virtual Issue (See MEE’s blog post). These papers are a sample of the increasingly sophisticated and ground breaking ecological…
For almost 100 years plant ecologists have noticed that in some species, plants that seem to die come back two or more years after their last appearance. John Harper, the pioneering ecologist who set the stage for modern plant ecology with his writings on evolutionary approaches to studying the Plant Kingdom and his now quintessential…
The Editor’s Choice for the next issue of Journal of Ecology is “An ideal free distribution explains the root production of plants that do not engage in a tragedy of the commons game” by McNickle and Brown. Read the below commentary on the paper written by Journal of Ecology Editor Mark Rees. Author Gordon McNickle…
