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 […]
Author Archives: Samantha Ponton
Characterizing the “landscape of immunity” across wildlife systems
How does animal susceptibility to pathogens vary across landscapes? In this shortlisted paper for the Sidnie Manton Award “Macroimmunology: The drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in wildlife immune defence“, […]
2019 Elton Prize Winner: Uriah Daugaard
The Elton Prize is awarded annually for the best paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology by an Early Career Researcher. We’re delighted to announce that the 2019 winner is […]
There are no second acts in animal life cycles
This blog post has been provided by Mike Moore, a post-doctoral fellow with the Living Earth Collaborative in St. Louis, USA. It tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for “On the evolution of […]
Welcome to our new Associate Editors
We are pleased to welcome Matt Barbour, University of Zurich, Isabella Capellini, University Belfast, James Kitson, University of Newcastle and Ben Longdon, University of Exeter who have joined the Journal […]
Second Journal of Animal Ecology Sidnie Manton – Shortlisted papers
Today we are excited to announce the shortlisted papers for the second Sidnie Manton Award. The Sidnie Manton Award was launched in 2016 as new competition for early-career ecologists to […]
Large mammals at Mt. Kilimanjaro: the importance of resource availability and protected areas
This blog post is provided by Friederike Gebert from the University of Würzburg and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for her article Primary productivity and habitat protection predict elevational species richness and […]
How good are we at identifying cues for breeding?
This blog post is provided by Emily Simmonds from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for her article Cue identification in phenology: A case […]
Microbiomes of soils, plants and animals
A new book in the BES Ecological Reviews series explores how microbiomes contribute to a range of important functions in their hosts, from nutrition, to behaviour and disease susceptibility. Here, […]
Welcome to our new Associate Editors
We are pleased to welcome Greta Bocedi University of Aberdeen and Beatriz Willink University of Costa Rica who have joined the Journal of Animal Ecology Associate Editor Board today! Greta Bocedi […]
Welcome to our new Associate Editors
We are pleased to welcome Rachael Antwis, Jon Bielby, Fleur Ponton and Rafael L. G. Raimundo who have all recently joined the Journal of Animal Ecology Associate Editor Board. Rachael […]
Open Call for Papers: Joint Special Feature on ecological resilience
Resilience has emerged as a key concept in ecology and conservation biology to understand and predict ecosystem responses to global change. In its broadest and original sense, resilience describes the […]
2019 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 […]
Why archive my data?
Why do the British Ecological Society journals require me to archive my data? At the BES, along with many other ecology journals, we require that all data (and code for […]
Showcasing developments in biologging and related methods in applied ecology
Originally posted on The Applied Ecologist:
Following the recent Journal of Animal Ecology Special Feature on biologging, Associate Editor, Steph Januchowski-Hartley takes a look at how research in this and…
Navigating through the R packages for movement
In the biologging Special Issue of the journal, we have new Review paper lead by Rocío Joo on Navigating through the r packages for movement. Rocío is a movement statistician […]
Light‐Level Geolocator Analyses: A user’s guide
In the biologging Special Issue of the journal, we have new ‘How to…’ paper lead by Simeon Lisovski from the Swiss Ornithological Institute on Light‐Level Geolocator Analyses. In this blog […]
How to make your ORCID iD work for you
The BES journals require authors to include an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, that distinguishes […]
Self-medication: how to use macronutrients to better survive infections
This blog post is provided by Fleur Ponton, Senior Lecturer in Insect Biology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Fleur and her team are investigating the relationship between nutrition, immunology […]
Speed Review at the BES Annual Meeting: Get a Senior Editor’s Opinion 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 Thursday 12 December! (sign-up […]
