Membership to the British Ecological Society If you become a member of the British Ecological Society you can get online access to the BES’ cohort of journals for £15 per year. You can also subscribe to Journal of Ecology in print for £30 per year. Journal of Ecology was the first publication to be launched…
Andrew Trant gave a talk recently at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Minneapolis, MN, USA titled Ecological factors, not climate warming, explain variability in treeline patterns. Read the talk abstract here. Andrew is a postdoc at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC, Canada. We caught up with Andrew at the ESA meeting to…
Allison Louthan et al. have a paper out in the journal titled Climatic stress mediates the impacts of herbivory on plant population structure and components of individual fitness. Read their paper here. We caught up with Allison recently to chat about her research.
Journal of Ecology is pleased to announce that the Editor’s Choice paper for issue 101:5 is “Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests” by Chisholm et al. Editor’s Choice 101:5 The argument for biodiversity conservation is increasingly being framed in terms of maintaining ecosystem functions and services. However, just how important…
INTECOL 2013 and the BES Centenary celebrations are over, but for me the event hosted in the old docklands area of east London will be remembered for a long time. Remembered for what? It was my pleasure to listen to many excellent talks ranging from detailed presentations of narrowly focused research, to the wide ranging…
I suppose that many of us have experienced the feeling of being at a very large conference where we have planned all of the talks we would like to see only to realize they are all in different rooms on alternating sides of the venue. As a graduate student I did my best to run…
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…
