Category: Virtual Issues

General, Virtual Issues

BES Virtual Issue: International Collaboration

Next week, The British Ecological Society and INTECOL will hold the 11th International Congress of Ecology in London as part of the Society’s centenary celebrations. The papers included in this free Virtual Issue are from a selection of keynote and plenary speakers published across the BES Journals, and represent one of the key themes of INTECOL – international collaboration. Together, they highlight the importance of international … Continue reading BES Virtual Issue: International Collaboration

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General, Virtual Issues

BES Virtual Issue: Freshwater Ecology

Virtual Issue: Freshwater Ecology – Understanding ecosystems and reducing anthropogenic environmental stress This freely available Virtual Issue contains a selection of papers published in the BES Journals since 2010, that have contributed to basic scientific knowledge and improved understanding of the effectiveness of restoring freshwater ecosystems. Read the Virtual Issue here. Continue reading BES Virtual Issue: Freshwater Ecology

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Evolution, General, Virtual Issues

Virtual Issue: Evolution 2013

Timed for Evolution 2013, we have just put up a Virtual Issue highlighting some of the papers with an evolutionary theme published in the last year. The link between ecology and evolution is important to MEE: the research papers we have highlighted include excellent examples of these such as modelling dispersal and testing for niche conservatism. Barcoding methods are included, which increasingly are used in … Continue reading Virtual Issue: Evolution 2013

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General, Journal updates, Methods papers, Robert May Prize, Virtual Issues

Virtual Issue – BES Young Investigator Prize Winners 2012

Every year the British Ecological Society awards a prize for the best paper in each of its 5 journals, by an author at the start of their research career. This freely available Virtual Issue entitled “Young Investigator Prize Winners 2012” brings together the winning papers from each journal, in addition to 2 highly commended papers from each journal, all of which were published in an … Continue reading Virtual Issue – BES Young Investigator Prize Winners 2012

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General, Journal updates, Robert May Prize, Society, Virtual Issues

2012 Robert May Prize Winner

The Robert May Prize is awarded annually to the best paper published in Methods by a young author at the start of their research career. We’re delighted to announce that the 2012 winner is Sarah Papworth from Imperial Collage London, for her article “Movement ecology of human resource users: using net squared displacement, biased random bridges and resource utilization functions to quantify hunter and gatherer … Continue reading 2012 Robert May Prize Winner

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Journal updates, Virtual Issues

International Open Access Week 2011

This week marks the 5th annual International Open Access Week, and to celebrate this exciting  milestone the journals of the British Ecological Society – including Methods! – have put together a special virtual issue of open access papers in ecology. The papers are drawn from all five journals, and cover a broad range of topics: from invasives, stress and insect ecology to wider issues  in community … Continue reading International Open Access Week 2011

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Journal updates, Virtual Issues

Virtual Issues on Forests and Global Change

In celebration of the UN’s International Year of Forests, and the British Ecological Society’s Symposium on Forests and Global Change, the Journal of Applied Ecology and Methods in Ecology and Evolution have worked together to bring you two complementary virtual issues in these areas: one dealing with environmental management, and the other the most relevent new methodological developments in forest and global change research. Sample … Continue reading Virtual Issues on Forests and Global Change

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