I hosted a discussion today on the topic of post-publication commentary on scientific research with Carl Boettiger and Jarrett Byrnes. We covered the different options for post-publication commentary, and their pros and cons. Join in on the discussion in the comments section below, in the comments section on YouTube, or on Twitter (tweet to me…
A paper in Early View in the Journal (Endemic plant communities on special soils: early victims or hardy survivors of climate change?) by Ellen Damschen and colleagues explores the consequences of climate change for plants on serpentine soil communities. Read the abstract here. I caught up with Ellen to do a video interview. Subscribe to our YouTube…
We have a number of options for post-publication commentary on papers: peer-reviewed comments on the original paper, long format blog posts, and shorter format comments on social networking sites (Twitter, Google+, etc.). In addition, we discuss and comment on published papers in the halls and during lunch breaks. We will host a discussion about post-publication…
Issue 4 is online now! Read Marcel van der Heijden’s commentary on the Editor’s Choice from 100:4 by Liu et al. Editor’s Choice 100:4 A major aim in ecology is to search for the determinants of biological diversity and species coexistence. There is increasing evidence that soil micro-organisms play a key role in regulating plant…
The following is an invited guest post by Dr. Matthew Chew. The bias in research commentary in Nature by Daniel Sarewitz has attracted a lot of comments on the Nature site and Ecolog*. We felt that the issue deserves more discussion. Here, Dr. Chew presents his take on the issue. Matthew K. Chew, Ph.D. Arizona…
The Plant Population Ecology (PPE) section of the Ecological Society of America and Journal of Ecology are pleased to announce that a Plant Population Ecology Postdoctoral Excellence Award, sponsored by Journal of Ecology, will be presented at the ESA meeting in Portland this year (2012). This award will celebrate the most distinguished contribution to plant…
Mark is interested in a wide range of ecological and evolutionary problems. He uses a range of approaches from simple analytical models, through to evolutionary stable strategy models for the evolution of plant traits and more complex structured models, in particular integral projection models. He is also interested in statistical estimation problems related to the…
Noelle Beckman and company have an early-view paper in the Journal titled “The interacting effects of clumped seed dispersal and distance- and density-dependent mortality on seedling recruitment patterns”. Read the abstract here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo of spider monkeys on Barro Colorado Island.
An accepted paper in the Journal (Long-term demographic consequences of eavesdropping for sagebrush) by Rick Karban and colleagues explores the consequences of volatile communication in sagebrush. Read the abstract here. I caught up with Rick to do a video interview. Subscribe to our YouTube posts by pressing the Subscribe button on the YouTube page (search ‘JournalOfEcology’), or…
Gretchen Brownstein and company have an accepted paper in the Journal titled “Chance in plant communities: a new approach to its measurement using the nugget from spatial autocorrelation “. Read the abstract here. The authors have provided a short synopsis of the paper and a photo of one of their study sites on the South Island, New Zealand.
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