The baboons of Amboseli
Founded in 1971, the Amboseli Baboon Project is one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in the world. The project centres on the savannah baboon, Papio cynocephalus that lives […]
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Meet the Blog Editor: Sarah Marley
Next up in our Meet the Editor series is our Blog Editor Sarah Marley, marine biologist and fan of ancient woodlands. Catch Sarah at any of the breaks at the […]
Speed Review at the BES Annual Meeting: Get a Senior Editor Opinions on YOUR Manuscript
Coming to the BES Annual Meeting? Planning to submit a paper to a BES journal? Then you should sign up for the Speed Review Session on Monday 17 December, sign-up […]
Meet the Editor: Jean-Michel Gaillard
Next up in our new Meet the Editor series is AS Saint-Etienne and Tintin fan Jean-Michel Gaillard. You can catch Jean-Michel over lunch at British Ecological Society Annual Meeting. […]
Meet the Editor: Ken Wilson
Next up in our new Meet the Editor series is Liverpool FC fan and Executive Editor Ken Wilson. Find out who Ken would like to join his lab and where […]
Making the most of #BES2018 – Highlights of events to make you a teaching pro!
It can be tricky being an academic, managing so many competing demands can mean that we might struggle to find time to be a great teacher as well as carrying […]
Meet the Editor: Ben Sheldon
Ahead of this year’s British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, where you have a chance to meet our Senior Editors, we thought it would be good to get to know the […]
Diversity in Peer review – the perspective of Journal of Animal Ecology Associate Editors
Fitting with our theme of #DiversityinEcology the theme of peer review week 2018 is diversity in peer review. To celebrate we decided to ask the people at the coalface of […]
Why island birds sometimes move in with strangers
In many animal species, young stay with their parents long after they have become sexually mature. Why individuals delay dispersal and independent breeding is an interesting question from an evolutionary […]
Journal of Animal Ecology is moving online-only
As an important update in the journal’s development, we are pleased to announce that, from January 2019, Journal of Animal Ecology will be moving online-only. Why? Moving online-only means we […]
The wandering albatrosses of the Crozet Islands
Henri Weimerskirch has been studying the wandering albatrosses that nest on the Crozet Islands for over 50 years. Out in the current issue of the journal is a new Synthesis […]
Sidnie Manton Award for early career ecologists – Submit your proposals now!
We are excited to announce that the Sidnie Manton Award is open for proposals. With this award, we aim to inspire early career researchers working on any aspect of animal […]
Return to the Wild: Conservation hope for the scimitar-horned oryx
In this post for Endangered Species Day Jared Stabach, a research ecologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute highlights the sharp decline in large mammal species across the Sahara and […]
Natalie Clay – Winner of the 2017 Elton Prize
We are delighted to announce that Natalie Clay has been awarded the 2017 Elton Prize for her paper: Towards a geography of omnivory: Omnivores increase carnivory when sodium is limiting. […]
Congratulations to Ben Weinstein on winning the inaugural Sidnie Manton Award
Today we are pleased to announce that to Ben Weinstein has won the inaugural Sidnie Manton Award for his paper ‘a computer vision for animal ecology’. Ben is a postdoctoral […]
Open Call for Papers: Special Feature on Biologging
With the recent advances in GPS and sensor technology, including three-axis accelerometers, it has become possible to simultaneously track multiple animals with a high accuracy while recording detailed information about their […]
The inaugural Sidnie Manton Award
In May 2016 we launched a new competition for early career ecologists to write a Synthesis or Review article for the journal. Today, on International Women’s Day, we are pleased […]
Lessons from two decades of detailing an invasion front
What can we learn about population dynamics from invasive species? A recent synthesis article published in the Journal of Animal Ecology examines the contributions from one of the best-documented cases […]
Open Data in Journal of Animal Ecology
A couple of weeks ago the British Ecology Society Journals published a virtual issue for Open Access Week looking at the most downloaded data sets in Dryad associated with papers […]
Spatial disease models: picking a “useful” model for pressing ecological questions
Since all models are wrong the scientist cannot obtain a “correct” one by excessive elaboration. On the contrary following William of Occam he should seek an economical description of natural […]
