Author: India Stephenson

Road to COP26

Microscopic phytoplankton are storytellers of our oceans under climate change

Post provided by Dr Rosie Sheward The 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) is being held Glasgow this week, and now more than ever before, the pressure is on for world leaders to agree on climate action to keep global warming below 1.5°c. In the lead up to the conference, we’re asking our editors and authors to discuss their research at the interface of climate … Continue reading Microscopic phytoplankton are storytellers of our oceans under climate change

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Journal Issues

October Issue Out Now!

Our October Issue is out now! It’s a bumper issue, with 26 articles presenting the latest methods in ecology and evolution. We have methods for measuring temporal change in alpha diversity, aerial imaging of field plots, analysing 3D morphology images and more, plus four Applications and five Practical Tools articles for your reading. Find out more below! Featured Articles The potential and practice of arboreal … Continue reading October Issue Out Now!

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Road to COP26

Functional Strategies to COP26

This year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) will be held in Glasgow in November, and now more than ever before, the pressure is on for world leaders to agree on climate action to keep global warming below 1.5°c. In the lead up to the conference, we’re asking our editors and authors to share their research at the interface of climate and ecology. In this post, Jesus Aguirre Gutierrez of the University of Oxford presents research on the role of functional diversity in the response of tropical forests to climate change.

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Conservation and management, Ecology

On foot snares and felids

By Methods in Ecology and Evolution Executive Editor Aaron M. Ellison A recent Practical Tools article published in Methods in Ecology & Evolution described a foot snare used to capture jaguars and cougars in Brazil (Ribeiro de Araujo et al. 2021a). Within hours of the posting of the proofed version of the article on the Early View section of the journal’s website, comments on Twitter … Continue reading On foot snares and felids

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Special Features

Call for Proposals: Active Remote Sensing for Ecology, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation

We are now accepting article proposals for a new cross-journal Special Feature entitled ‘Active Remote Sensing for Ecology, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation‘, a joint venture by the journals Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology and Journal of Applied Ecology. Here, the Special Feature’s Lead Editors Carlos Alberto Silva & Hooman Latifi explain the idea behind this Special Feature. Active … Continue reading Call for Proposals: Active Remote Sensing for Ecology, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation

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Peer Review, Publishing Tips & Tricks

On the Benefits of Collaborative Peer Review

At the British Ecological Society journals we strongly encourage senior academics to review our manuscripts in collaboration with more junior members of their labs.

We believe that this is fantastic training for Early Career Researchers, whether it involves sitting down and combing through a manuscript together, or, if they already have some experience, the junior researcher writing the report and the senior researcher editing and adding comments later. We also recommend that the Early Career Researchers read our handy Guide to Peer Review before conducting their report.

This Peer Review Week, some of our past co-reviewers have kindly shared their thoughts on the process.

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Journal Issues

September Issue Out Now!

Our September Issue is now available online! Featuring methods for 3D phenotyping, identification of ghost parasitoids, estimating the area of applicability of spatial prediction models & much more! Read on to discover our featured articles, specially selected by Executive Editor Rob Freckleton, plus find out more about the Applications and Practical Tools articles we have in this issue. Featured Articles Identification of ghost parasitoids Incidence … Continue reading September Issue Out Now!

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Field Methods, MEEin3, Practical Tools

MEEin3: Adapting a turkey fryer to manipulate water temperature

Got just five minutes to spare? Listen to our brand new podcast! In this episode, we interview Cassandra Konecny and Graham Brownlee about their recent publication “Adapting a propane turkey fryer to manipulate temperature in aquatic environments”. As the likelihood of extreme temperatures increases due to climate change, there is a growing need to better understand the potential impacts of altered thermal regimes on biodiversity … Continue reading MEEin3: Adapting a turkey fryer to manipulate water temperature

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Conservation and management, MEEin3, Methods papers

MEEin3: A standardisation framework for bio-logging data to advance ecological research and conservation

We are very excited to share the second episode of MEEin3 with you! Listen to Dr Ana Sequeira share the story behind the paper ‘A standardisation framework for bio-logging data to advance ecological research and conservation‘. Ana is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, with research focusing on understanding the movement of marine megafauna. But what inspired this article, what was … Continue reading MEEin3: A standardisation framework for bio-logging data to advance ecological research and conservation

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Journal Issues

August Issue Out Now!

Our August Issue is now available online! Featuring methods for monitoring deep sea benthic habitats, simulating host–symbiont evolution, measuring microclimates & many more! Read on to discover our featured articles, specially selected by Senior Editor Aaron Ellison, plus find out more about the Applications and Practical Tools articles we have in this issue. Featured Articles treeducken *open access* Cophylogenetic methods describe discordance between non-independent phylogenies. … Continue reading August Issue Out Now!

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