Fernando Maestre, Andrea Castillo-Monroy, Matthew Bowker, and Raul Ochoa-Húeso have a paper in Early View in the Journal titled “Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern“.
Fernando has written a nice lay summary of the research presented in the paper, which we provide below. Continue reading
Posted in Lay summary, Photo Feature, Photos, Video
A paper in Early View at the Journal (“Significance and extent of secondary seed dispersal by predatory birds on oceanic islands: the case of the Canary archipelago”) by David Padilla, Aarón González-Castro, and Manuel Nogales, explores secondary dispersal on the Canary Islands. Read the paper here.
I caught up with David recently to do our first video interview of the Journal of Ecology interview series. We hope you enjoy the interview, and let us know if you like these interviews.
This paper received press coverage on the BBC (here), and BBC spanish language version (here).
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What factors are responsible for differences in the abundance of species?
This question—perhaps the most fundamental in ecology, and of critical importance for conservation—was addressed by Ryan Phillips, Matthew Barrett, Kingsley Dixon and Steve Hopper in a recent paper in the Journal [1], for which Ryan (as lead author) was awarded the Harper Prize. Continue reading
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Mike Hutchings et al. published a paper in the recent issue of the Journal entitled “Tansley’s vision for Journal of Ecology, and a Centenary Celebration”.
In the aforementioned paper they presented a table breaking down how papers were distributed across different fields of ecology over the past 100 years (or the first 100 volumes of the Journal).
Here, we present a heatmap of the data. Continue reading
Posted in Journal Centenary, Visualizations
Journal of Ecology was the world’s first ecological journal. It was established as the official publication of the newly formed British Ecological Society (BES) in 1913 under the leadership and guidance of the Society’s first President, Sir Arthur Tansley FRS. At its launch, Tansley identified two primary aims for the Journal, namely “to foster and promote in all ways the study of ecology”, and to present “a record of and commentary on the progress of ecology throughout the world”. As the Journal of Ecology embarks on its second century of publication, we would like to ask you, our blog readers, for your thoughts on the extent to which it has fulfilled Tansley’s aims, and whether it has achieved any more (or less) than originally expected. Continue reading
As we move into the Journal of Ecology’s Centenary year, it seems like an excellent time to look back at articles in the Journal archives to find out what impact they have had on plant ecologists working in the field today. Journal Editor, David Gibson, kicks off the first post for our “Ecological Inspirations” series.
Alex Watt. Image from www.wikipedia.org
“We must know all of it in order to know any of it” Watt (1947) paraphrasing T.S. Eliot’s commentary on Shakespeare’s work.
A few years ago I started a short-lived project to obtain photos of deceased scientists who have inspired me. Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Inspirations
We receive many great photos from authors which, for one reason or another, are not selected for the journal cover (plus, we can only choose one photo for each issue!). The blog gives us an opportunity to feature these author’s photos together with a lay summary. Here are a couple of images from papers recently published in the Centenary Special Issue (100:1). Continue reading
Posted in Lay summary, Photo Feature
