In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview Mark Hahnel of Figshare about Figshare and data sharing. This interview took place on in the Figshare office in London on 21 December, 2012. All BES podcasts are now being collated in one place: Soundcloud. Follow this link to the podcast on Souncloud. Find the podcast on Soundcloud here,…
As we move into the second century of publishing Journal of Ecology, it’s a good time to see how the Journal fared in its 100th year. With this in mind, we compared uptake of the 150 papers published in the Centenary volume 100 in 2012. To make it interesting, we look at citations as they…
What did we talk about most on Twitter at the BES conference? At least one other has created a wordcloud, but here is another attempt, I cut out URL’s, and user names for the first one on what words we used, then for the second, just extracted user names.
See this Storify I created of some interesting tweets from #BES12. Note that I could only get tweets back to Wed, so apologies for that. The Storify: http://storify.com/recology_/bes12-tweets-of-interest
The #BES12 meeting has come and gone.Here are some notes from some of the talks I attended: Francesco de Bello – Gave a talk on “Functional species pool framework to disentangle biotic and abiotic effects on community assembly ” – Read his related paper by de Bello in Ecology here. I just completed an interview with Francesco…
Zakir and company have a paper in Early View titled “Herbivore-induced plant volatiles provide associational resistance against an ovipositing herbivore”. Read the paper here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo.
I’m conducting some interviews at the upcoming British Ecological Society in Birmingham: Kyle Dexter – on niche evolution in South American trees Franciska de Vries – on the link between plant traits and soil microbial communities James Rosindell – on the the tree of life explorer OneZoom Eleanor Slade – on prediction of moth responses to forest fragmentation Michael…
The Tansley Lecture is in full swing as we speak. A number of Journal of Ecology’s Associate Editors have also made some suggestions about what they are looking forward to seeing at #BES12. Gerlinde de Deyn And what a program it is!
The British Ecological Society annual meeting is almost upon us. Before we head to Birmingham Journal of Ecology Editor, Mark Rees, has made some suggestions about what he thinks that you should go and see. BES annual meeting 2012 Ho ho ho, here we go it’s BES annual meeting time and it’s back where it belongs…
In the next Journal of Ecology podcast I interview William Sutherland about his paper on identifying 100 fundamental ecological questions. Check out the paper in the journal here. This interview took place on 3 December, 2012. As always let us know what you think in the comments section below or on Twitter @JEcology or @recology_
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