Just got back from my holiday. Two weeks on the Baltic island of Öland with its old cultural landscape, incredible “alvar” grasslands and brilliant birding. Talk about biodiversity! I dived into the INTECOL programme, with the aim of starting by trying to identify talks that I really don’t want to miss. I’ve picked out some…
I was recently asked by the executive board of Journal of Ecology to highlight presentations and other events that I am looking forward to at the INTECOL conference, taking place in London, August 18-23 (http://www.intecol2013.org). Well, I will start by admitting that I feel rather bad that I wasn’t able to attend the ESA(merica) this…
So having missed the ESA annual meeting this year, as a British Expat I’m very much looking forward to coming home to the UK to attend INTECOL which is being held in the greatest city in the world, London. Warm beer, steak and kidney pie, fish n’ chips, rain, yes, I’m looking forward to INTECOL…
So ESA 2013 is in full swing. Read further conference suggestions from two more of our Associate Editors, Robert Jones and Ignasi Bartomeus, below. Hope everyone has a great conference and don’t forget to drop by the BES stand for more info on Journal of Ecology and the Society. Robert Jones The 2013 ESA meeting…
A few months ago, when I was checking out flights for ESA, I googled ‘ Cool things to do in Minneapolis’. The search results were sobering: all I got was ‘Things to do in Minneapolis’. I was worried.
Joshua Rapp et al. have a paper out in the journal (Early View) titled Sex allocation, pollen limitation and masting in whitebark pine. Read their paper here, and a press release here. We caught up with Joshua recently to chat about his research.
Since I am very excited about all things data management, data analysis, reproducible research, etc. I was excited to see that Carly Strasser already organized a list of talks and workshops around those areas, see here. In addition, I’m looking forward to a number of talks, sessions, and workshops (in no particular order): Evaluating a…
ESA expects roughly 3400 to attend their 98th annual meeting in Minneapolis Aug. 4-9. In addition to the 129 traditional contributed oral sessions and 70 contributed poster Sessions, there will be 24 symposia, 34 organized oral sessions, 4 organized poster sessions, 53 workshops, 19 special sessions, 15 field trips and 17 Ignite sessions. The Ignite…
When Andrea Baier asked me whether I could write a blog post about my plans for the ESA this year, I initially thought ‘Oh no, another thing for my to-do list’. But then, the skies opened, angels started to sing, and it hit me with full strength – this would be my opportunity to, for…
Jörg Albrecht et al. have a paper out in the journal (vol 101, issue 4, pp. 662-70) titled Logging and forest edges reduce redundancy in plant–frugivore networks in an old-growth European forest. Read their paper here. We caught up with Jörg recently to chat about his research.
