Rainbow Research: Nature
To celebrate UK Pride Month, the British Ecological Society journal blogs are hosting a ‘Rainbow Research’ series, which aims to promote visibility of STEM researchers from the LGBTQ+ community. Each post […]
Author Archives: Samantha Ponton
MEET THE EDITOR: Rob Salguero-Gómez
We are thrilled to announce that Rob Salguero-Gómez has been appointed as the new Commissioning Editor for Journal of Animal Ecology. Read on to find out a bit about Rob and […]
Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!
Originally posted on Methods Blog:
We are inviting contributions from LGBTQ+ ecologists and evolutionary biologists for a series of blog posts across the British Ecological Society journals for UK Pride Month,…
Does your research intersect with a natural history collection?
Associate Editor Alison Davis Rabosky introduces our exciting new cross-journal Special Feature ‘Leveraging Natural History Collections to Understand the Impacts of Global Change‘. Below you can find out all about the […]
Journal of Animal Ecology Elton Prize awarded to Natalie Jones
The Elton Prize is awarded annually to the best article by an early career researcher in Journal of Animal Ecology. We are delighted to announce that the winner of the […]
Testing how global warming changes freshwater communities
Elton Prize shortlisted Article This blog post is provided by Natalie T. Jones and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Predators drive community reorganization during experimental range shifts”. Natalie has […]
Call for Proposals: Leveraging Natural History Collections to Understand the Impacts of Global Change
Natural history collections in museums, herbaria, seed banks, and tissue banks provide some of the most valuable information sources in an ecologist’s toolbox: time series data. These collections not only […]
Moving forward with cheetah research and conservation
This blog post is provided by Cédric Scherer and Jörg Melzheimer after winning the ‘pretty map’ category of MoveMapCompetition from the BES Movement Ecology SIG The cheetah is the rarest big […]
Rapid and repeated shifts in chemical signals in Greece
Elton Prize shortlisted Article This blog post is provided by Colin Donihue and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Rapid and Repeated Divergence of Animal Chemical Signals in an Island […]
Blown away: How male pectoral sandpipers look for their next partner
This blog post is provided by Johannes Krietsch after winning the nerdy” category category of MoveMapCompetition from the BES Movement Ecology SIG. Congratulations Johannes! A key aspect in the study […]
2020 ELTON PRIZE SHORTLIST: JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY AWARD FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS
The Elton Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Journal of Animal Ecology written by an early career author at the start of their research career. […]
International Women’s Day 2021: #ChooseToChallenge
Originally posted on The Applied Ecologist:
The theme for International Women’s Day 2021 is #ChooseToChallenge. “A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts…
Our guide to the Festival of Ecology
Attending the British Ecological Society’s Annual Meeting, a Festival of Ecology? There are many exciting live presentations, workshops, as well as on-demand content for our first fully virtual conference. Here are a […]
Welcome to our new Associate Editors
Following our open call for applicants we are pleased to welcome 20 new Associate Editors to the Journal of Animal Ecology Editorial Board. The researchers are based across 13 different countries, including […]
Welcome to Beth Preston and Julie Koch Sheard our new Blog Associate Editors
We are excited to announce Beth Preston and Julie Koch Sheard as our new Blog Associate Editors. Beth and Julie will be working together to drive the blog forward by […]
Untangling community dynamics using spatially explicit Bayesian networks
In this article, Nick Fountain-Jones from the University of Tasmania introduces how advances in Bayesian networks can be used to untangle community dynamics and, in particular, the moose microbiome by […]
Open call for papers: Special Feature on understanding climate change response in the age of genomics
Anthropogenic climate change is rapidly transforming environments and poses a major threat to species and ecosystems worldwide. Understanding how animal populations respond to these changing environments is crucial for developing […]
When the world burns, how do predators respond?
This blog post is provided by William Geary, Tim Doherty, Dale Nimmo, Ayesha Tulloch and Euan Ritchie and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article Predator responses to fire: A global […]
Congratulations to Daniel J. Becker on winning the Sidnie Manton Award
Today we are pleased to announce that to Daniel J. Becker has won the second Sidnie Manton Award for his paper ‘Macroimmunology: The drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in […]
We are recruiting for a Blog Associate Editor
We’re really excited to be advertising for a new Associate Editor for the blog. This is a great opportunity for an active ecologist with a passion for helping researchers communicate […]
