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 how he hopes to help shape the journal in this new role. Get in touch to discuss any ideas for Reviews, Long-term Studies, ‘How To…’ articles and Concepts in Animal Ecology. What can you tell … Continue reading MEET THE EDITOR: Rob Salguero-Gómez
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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, which takes place in June. The series, called Rainbow Research, aims to promote visibility and inclusion of researchers from the LGBTQ+ community with posts promoting them and their research. Each post will be connected to… Continue reading Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!
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 scope of the Special Feature and how to submit your manuscript proposal. Does your research intersect with a natural history collection? Do those collections allow you to answer questions in ecology that you can’t ask … Continue reading Does your research intersect with a natural history collection?
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 2020 Elton Prize is Natalie Jones, University of Queensland, Australia, for her Research Article Predators drive community reorganization during experimental range shifts. Climate change is reshuffling ecological communities, truly, as we speak; it’s not simply … Continue reading Journal of Animal Ecology Elton Prize awarded to Natalie Jones
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 been shortlisted for the 2020 Elton Prize for this article. Natalie completed this research as a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Jonathan Shurin at the University of California, San Diego. She is currently a postdoctoral … Continue reading Testing how global warming changes freshwater communities
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 permanently archive preserved specimens, but also critical historical and contemporary information about how species distributions, interactions, and phenotypes respond to global change across time scales. Whether specimens are serving as indicators of environmental change or … Continue reading Call for Proposals: Leveraging Natural History Collections to Understand the Impacts of Global Change
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 cat species in Africa and its numbers have substantially decreased over the last decades to now less than 7,000 adult individuals. In central Namibia, one of the most important strongholds of the species, the cheetahs … Continue reading Moving forward with cheetah research and conservation
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 Introduction Experiment”. Colin has been shortlisted for the 2020 Elton Prize for this article. Colin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. He is interested in understanding the causes … Continue reading Rapid and repeated shifts in chemical signals in Greece
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 of animal movement is to understand the interaction between the moving subject and the medium in which it moves. In the case of flying birds, the medium is the atmosphere. Flying can be energetically costly … Continue reading Blown away: How male pectoral sandpipers look for their next partner
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. Today we are pleased to present the shortlisted papers for this year’s award, based on the previous (89th) volume of the journal. The winner will be selected in the coming weeks so watch this space … Continue reading 2020 ELTON PRIZE SHORTLIST: JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY AWARD FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS
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