Elton Prize 2021: winner announced
We are delighted to announce Kate P. Maia as the 2021 winner of our Elton Prize early career researcher award for the article Interaction generalisation and demographic feedbacks drive the […]
Category Archives: Announcements
Shortlist Announced for Elton Prize Early Career Researcher Award
Each year Journal of Animal Ecology awards the Elton Prize to the best Research Article in the journal by an early career researcher. Today we present the shortlisted papers for this year’s […]
Tips for getting the most out of the virtual Ecology Across Borders 2021 Meeting
The corona pandemic continues to make international travelling difficult. Luckily, tools for virtual meetings have developed rapidly in order to facilitate the continued exchange of knowledge and ideas. While virtual […]
Updated Animal Ethics Policy
We’ve recently updated our policy on animal research ethics for all the BES journals (Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Functional Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Methods in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
This International Women’s Day we look back over the blogs from the last year, and highlight four of our favourites written by women. Celebrate women in science, and the awesome […]
Citizen Science joint special issue is out now
The February issue of Journal of Animal Ecology is out now, and includes the Citizen Science Special Feature. Joint with Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution People and Nature […]
Animal Social Networks Joint Special Issue is out now!
The January issue of Journal of Animal Ecology is out now, and includes the Animal Social Networks Special Feature. Joint with the Journal of Methods in Ecology and Evolution there […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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